Neuroscience
Researchers predict rat behaviors from brain activity
If behavior is a language, UO neuroscientist Luca Mazzucato is decoding its grammar.
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Neuroscience
Full-scale, biologically realistic model of mouse hippocampus uncovers new mechanism for pattern separation
Our brains can distinguish highly similar patterns, thanks to a process called pattern separation. How our brains separate patterns is, however, not yet fully understood. Using a full-scale computer model of the dentate gyrus, ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Neuroscience
When the brain switches from hearing to listening
What happens in the brain when simply hearing becomes listening? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound processing in the mouse brain.
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Genetics
Study finds relationship between immune pathway response to influenza and genetic ancestry
New research at the University of Chicago has found differences in immune pathway activation to influenza infection between individuals of European and African genetic ancestry. Many of the genes that were associated with ...
Nov 25, 2021
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Health
More sleep leads to better grades and well-being, study shows
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Oct 28, 2021
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Neuroscience
Fractal brain networks support complex thought
Understanding how the human brain produces complex thought is daunting given its intricacy and scale. The brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons that coordinate activity through 100 trillion connections, and those ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Medical research
Human mini-lungs grown in lab dishes are closest yet to real thing
Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States in early 2020, scientists have struggled to find laboratory models of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19. Animal models fell short; attempts ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Neuroscience
What birds' rhythms tell us about how we form speech and movement
If you have ever been moved by the beat of a drum or enchanted by a song, or if you have meandered through YouTube to watch animals from elephants to dancing cockatoos swaying and bopping to music, you might suspect that ...
Aug 23, 2021
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Diabetes
Low glycaemic diet shows meaningful improvements for people with diabetes
For people with diabetes, sticking to a low glycaemic diet results in small but important improvements in blood sugar levels, cholesterol, weight and other risk factors, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A machine learning approach for predicting risk of schizophrenia using a blood test
An innovative strategy that analyzes a region of the genome offers the possibility of early diagnosis of schizophrenia, reports a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. The strategy applied a machine learning ...
Aug 3, 2021
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