The somatosensory cortex is a brain region known to play a role in the detection of tactile information, changes in temperature, and pain sensations. Some recent studies found that this crucial brain region is also involved ...
Neuroscientists aim to understand how the primary motor cortex (M1) can regulate precise movements while supporting behavioral exploration that encounters consistent errors. While consistency in the environment can help animals ...
Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute have traced neural pathways that connect the brain to the stomach, providing a biological mechanism to explain how stress can foster ulcer development.
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When investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine applied light-driven stimulation to nerve cells in the brains of mice that had suffered strokes several days earlier, the mice showed significantly greater ...
Aug 18, 2014
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Not only does practice make perfect, it also makes for more efficient generation of neuronal activity in the primary motor cortex, the area of the brain that plans and executes movement, according to researchers from the ...
Aug 4, 2013
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An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Bologna has investigated the neural mechanisms underlying imitative behavior: a phenomenon that facilitates interaction and social cohesion and ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has shown promise as a treatment for some symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, not all symptoms improve equally well with DBS. A better understanding of how different sites of electrical ...
Jun 4, 2024
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On the surface, the movement disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and the cognitive disorder frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which underlies frontotemporal dementia, ...
Mar 22, 2024
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A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry has identified previously unknown alterations in neural connectivity that promote psychomotor disturbance—a slowing or reduction in movement—in individuals with major depressive ...
Jan 11, 2024
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In animals, movements such as locomotion or grooming are known to influence neuronal activity within the cerebral cortex. Moreover, recent studies also suggest that these changes in neuronal activity are not confined to a ...
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