A well-trained athlete sprinting 100 yards performs a highly stereotyped, repetitive motor pattern. Neuroscientists understand that these rhythmic motor programs, such as walking, swimming and running, are produced by neural ...
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Rice University neuroengineers have created a tiny surgical implant that can electrically stimulate the brain and nervous system without using a battery or wired power supply.
Jun 8, 2020
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Our brains are so primed to recognize faces—or to tell people apart—that we rarely even stop to think about it, but what happens in the brain when it engages in such recognition is still far from understood. In a new ...
Oct 30, 2019
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A subset of the stem cells in hair follicles have the potential to regenerate the coating that insulates neurons in mice, reports Thomas Hornyak of the VA Maryland Health Care System and the University of Maryland School ...
Apr 24, 2019
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While virtually all cells in an animal's body communicate with their neighbors in one way or another, many scientists thought that only neurons—the specialized cells that comprise much of the brain and nervous system—produce ...
Mar 4, 2019
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Three teams working independently have uploaded papers to the bioRxiv preprint server outlining their research involving attempting to use neural network-based AI systems to translate brainwaves into decipherable speech. ...
The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to recognize your grandmother's ...
Jan 3, 2019
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Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now found a cause for frequent catastrophic events in the genetic material of cancer cells that have only been known for a few ...
Nov 12, 2018
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According to a radical new model of emotion in the brain, a current treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population.
Jun 19, 2018
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What if one day, we could teach our bodies to self-heal like a lizard's tail, and make severe injury or disease no more threatening than a paper cut?
Aug 18, 2017
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