Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus: why we need local models to successfully exit lockdown
It's fair to say the world has never been more aware of the importance of mathematical and statistical modelling as it is today.
May 18, 2020
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Neuroscience
Five amazing facts about your brain
Our brain is the most complex organ in the body. Not only does it control basic life functions like breathing, organ function, and movement, it's also behind more complex processes—everything from thought, controlling our ...
Mar 3, 2020
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Neuroscience
Proteins involved in brain's connectivity are controlled by multiple checkpoints
University of Bristol scientists have found that the delivery of a group of proteins involved in the information flow between the brain's nerve cells to the synapse is much more sophisticated than previously suspected. The ...
Aug 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Rhythmic firing of brain cells supports communication in brain network for language
The communication between brain regions specialized in language is supported by rhythmic synchronization of brain cells. Moreover, different rhythms reflect different directions of information flow - a breakthrough in the ...
Jul 12, 2017
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Lack of D1 receptor leads to slowness of movements in Parkinson's disease
Dopamine deficiency in the basal ganglia (a set of subcortical structures) causes severe motor dysfunctions, such as slowness of movements (bradykinesia), as observed in Parkinson's disease. Dopamine binds D1 and D2 receptors ...
Oct 6, 2015
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Neuroscience
Forget Freud, research on dream imagery may help us understand consciousness
Rapid eye movements (REMs) during sleep may contribute to the visual part of our dreams by acting as a switch from image to image, researchers have found. The study, which measured the activity of individual cells in the ...
Aug 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
Network 'hubs' in the brain attract information, much like airport system
One of the brain's main jobs is information processing - what is critical, however, is that information in the brain gets transferred to the right places at the right times.
Apr 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
Engineer builds device to show how blood flows when we think
A UWM engineer is building a device that could help answer a particularly puzzling biological question – how blood is directed to the brain to power thinking.
Mar 10, 2015
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Medical research
Designing better hearing aids using brain-inspired speech enhance
New research is aiming to produce hearing aids which can distinguish better between speech and background noise and benefit the lives of the six million people in the UK with hearing impairments.
Mar 7, 2013
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Neuroscience
Examining the brain as a neural information super-highway
An article demonstrating how tools for modeling traffic on the Internet and telephone systems can be used to study information flow in brain networks will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology ...
Jun 2, 2011
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