Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an automatic process that uses streamlined artificial intelligence (AI) to identify active neurons in videos faster and more accurately than current techniques.
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Cocaine is a highly addictive substance that, in the long term, can have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. There are around 18 million cocaine users globally, according to a U.N. report. Understanding how cocaine modifies ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in predicting the behavior of neurons in large networks operating at the mysterious edge of chaos.
Feb 19, 2021
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Neurons, the fundamental units of the brain, are complex computers by themselves. They receive input signals on a tree-like structure—the dendrite. This structure does more than simply collect the input signals: it integrates ...
Jan 27, 2021
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In a new study published in Nature Communications, research groups of Professor J. Matias Palva and Research Director Satu Palva at the Neuroscience Centre of the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, in collaboration ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Within the staggeringly complex networks of neurons which make up our brains, electric currents display intricate dynamics in the electric currents they convey. To better understand how these networks behave, researchers ...
Dec 8, 2020
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How can you build neuronal networks that are more complex than anything known today? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, have mapped the development of inhibitory neuronal circuitry ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Where in a nerve cell is a certain receptor protein located? Without an answer to this question, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions about the function of this protein. Two scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology ...
Nov 2, 2020
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New research shows that the pharmacological treatment of neurons receiving dopamine has important effects on the differentiation of these cells. The study, in which Simona Coviello and Yaiza Gramuntell, who are part of the ...
Oct 28, 2020
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Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence.
Oct 15, 2020
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