Neuroscience
How environmental cues can affect behavior
Although it may seem counterintuitive, researchers are turning to an animal without a brain to crack the neural code underlying behavior.
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'Voltron' imaging tool captures brain cell action in living animals
Luke Lavis has spent years developing fluorescent dyes in every color of the rainbow. The super-bright, long-lasting dyes have been used in labs around the world and have helped make Nobel Prize-winning microscopy advances ...
Aug 1, 2019
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Scientists identify brain region that enables young songbirds to change their tune
In a scientific first, Columbia scientists have demonstrated how the brains of young songbirds become tuned to the songs they learn while growing up.
Aug 12, 2019
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Scientists find neural match for complexity of visual world
The complexity of the neural activity we use to process visual images reflects the intricacy of those images, a team of New York University scientists has found. Their study offers new insights into how our brain extracts ...
Nov 5, 2015
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Neuroscience
New fluorescent protein permanently marks neurons that fire
A new tool developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus lets scientists shine a light on an animal's brain to permanently mark neurons that are active at a particular time. The tool—a fluorescent ...
Feb 12, 2015
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New technology could improve diagnosis of epilepsy and lead to personalized treatment options
Today, the way a physician determines how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient's own record of seizure activity. Despite all the technological advances in devices monitoring the human body, ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers use innovative dual-target deep brain stimulation approach to treat patients with OCD and Tourette Syndrome
Up to two-thirds of patients with Tourette syndrome (TS), a tic disorder characterized by sudden uncontrollable physical movements, also suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a psychiatric condition characterized ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Neuroscience
New study uncovers vivid patterns of neural activity in the resting mouse brain
Columbia scientists have traced the origins of mysterious signals in the brain that have captivated the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) community for the last decade. Using a recently developed imaging technique ...
Dec 12, 2016
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Scientists build a 'brain stethoscope' to turn seizures into music
Josef Parvizi was enjoying a performance by the Kronos Quartet when the idea struck. The musical troupe was midway through a piece in which the melodies were based on radio signals from outer space, and Parvizi, a neurologist ...
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Medical research
A new theory to explain how spinal neuronal circuits control locomotion
A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen working with a colleague from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin has developed a new theory to explain how spinal neuronal circuits control locomotion ...
