A new, detailed genetic roadmap of glaucoma—the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness—will help researchers develop new drugs to combat the disease, by identifying potential target areas to stall or reverse ...
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Researchers have known for many years that Alzheimer's disease involves two proteins called amyloid beta and tau, and that interaction between them drives the spread of neurodegeneration. What hasn't been clear is where and ...
Apr 27, 2022
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Landmarks like a church steeple or a yellow house on the corner play an important role in the ability to navigate. But so does an internal compass, thought to be supported by specialized neurons in the brain—called "head-direction" ...
Apr 20, 2022
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A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is "formatted"—a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.
Apr 7, 2022
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Minuscule involuntary eye movements, known as microsaccades, can occur even while one is carefully staring at a fixed point in space. When paying attention to something in the peripheral vision (called covert attention), ...
Mar 25, 2022
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Now, researchers from Japan have found that even a mental picture can communicate volumes.
Mar 18, 2022
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Aleena Garner still remembers the moment she decided to pursue neurobiology. She was in an undergraduate chemistry class when realization struck: the human brain—that three-pound organ capable of carrying out an endless ...
Mar 8, 2022
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They say a picture can convey a thousand words, and researchers have found that using medical imaging technologies that can visualize health may discourage risk-related behaviors more than non-visual information. The meta-analysis, ...
Mar 3, 2022
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Exploring how brain areas communicate with each other is the focus of a long-standing research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Champalimaud Research. The cross-continental ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Visual processing is facilitated by spaces near the hand, which is referred to as hand proximity attention. A team at Tohoku University has been studying this mechanism to isolate hand-related effects from top-down attention; ...
Mar 1, 2022
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