Neuroscience
New research puts distinct memories of similar events in their place
Neuroscientists have found new evidence on how distinct memories of similar events are represented in the brain.
May 10, 2018
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How to reprogram memory cells in the brain
Long-term memory of specific places is stored in the brain in so-called place cells. A team of neuroscientists headed by Dr. Andrea Burgalossi of the University of Tübingen's Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience ...
Apr 4, 2018
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How does the brain's spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?
Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. This cognitive map, which is thought to reside in the hippocampus of the brain, gives us the ...
Mar 8, 2018
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The brain's GPS has a buddy system
To be successful as a social animal, you need to know where you stand relative to others. Brain cells that perform precisely this function—locating the 'self' and others in space—have now been identified. In rats, the ...
Jan 11, 2018
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Modifying memories during sleep could reduce trauma
Reducing the trauma associated with bad memories while someone is asleep sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it could become a reality in 10 years thanks to a greater understanding of how the brain encodes memories ...
Jan 8, 2018
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Impaired path integration in mice with disrupted grid cell firing
One of the most complex accomplishments of our brain is spatial orientation. To accomplish this, the brain uses various cell types including place cells and grid cells. Place cells tell the brain the current position. Scientists ...
Dec 11, 2017
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How we know where we are
The brain is a personalized GPS. It can keep track of where you are in time and space without your knowledge.
Dec 8, 2017
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Neuroscience
Schizophrenia and memory deficits: Solving the mystery behind a most stubborn symptom
A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the brain's center for spatial navigation—its internal GPS—result in some of the severe memory deficits seen in schizophrenia. The new study in mouse models ...
Sep 4, 2017
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Navigation and spatial memory—new brain region identified to be involved
Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in the environment, serving essentially as a GPS, findings that led to the 2014 Nobel ...
Aug 16, 2017
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Health
Some surprising sources of germs
(HealthDay)—You might think of public restrooms as scary breeding grounds for germs, but two everyday items can spread colds and the flu as fast as a bathroom doorknob.
Apr 25, 2017
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