Neuroscience
Taking it all in: Revealing how we sense things
McGill physiology research team sheds light on how the brain processes what we sense.
Apr 25, 2012
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Neuroscience
Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment
What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.
Mar 21, 2012
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Autism spectrum disorders
Holding a mirror to brain changes in autism
Impaired social function is a cardinal symptom of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). One of the brain circuits that enable us to relate to other people is the "mirror neuron" system. This brain circuit is activated when we ...
Mar 2, 2012
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Neuroscience
New connections between brain cells form in clusters during learning
New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published in Nature on February 19 (advance online publication). Led by researchers at the University ...
Feb 19, 2012
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Neuroscience
Researchers rebuild the brain's circuitry
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed.
Nov 24, 2011
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Neuroscience
Researchers uncover steps in synapse building, pruning
Like a gardener who stakes some plants and weeds out others, the brain is constantly building networks of synapses, while pruning out redundant or unneeded synapses. Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory led by Assistant ...
Nov 16, 2011
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Neuroscience
Anatomical blueprint for motor antagonism identified
(Medical Xpress) -- Walking or movement in general, comes so naturally to us, yet it results from a sophisticated interplay between the nervous system and muscles. Little is known about the neuronal blueprint that ensures ...
Oct 20, 2011
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Medical research
By reprogramming skin cells into brain cells, scientists gain new insights into mental disorders
For many poorly understood mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism, scientists have wished they could uncover what goes wrong inside the brain before damage ensues.
Oct 12, 2011
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Neuroscience
Control of fear in the brain decoded
When healthy people are faced with threatening situations, they react with a suitable behavioural response and do not descend into a state of either panic or indifference, as is the case, for example, with patients who suffer ...
Sep 6, 2011
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Neuroscience
Researchers connect neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits
Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark Shein of Tel Aviv University's ...
Jul 12, 2011
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