Focusing on what's important represents one of the main tasks of the brain. But how do we manage to separate the important from the unimportant? It has long been known that oscillatory neural activity is a key factor for ...
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Within the human brain, neurons perform complex calculations on information they receive. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated how dendrites—branch-like extensions that protrude from neurons—help to perform those ...
Feb 17, 2022
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Damage to a part of the brain that processes visual information—the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—can be devastating, especially for adults. Those affected may lose the ability to read (a disorder known as alexia), or recognize ...
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(HealthDay)—Faricimab is noninferior to aflibercept for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema, according to two studies published online Jan. 24 in The Lancet.
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While sleeping, the entire brain rolls through long, slow waves of electrical activity, like waves on a calm ocean. Researchers call that state of consciousness "slow wave sleep." Waking up changes the pattern of electrical ...
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Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered hundreds of proteins that are constantly transported throughout the healthy brain in small membrane-enclosed sacs, revealing a new form of communication between brain cells. ...
Jan 31, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Schizophrenia and bipolar I patients experience cognitive decline through adulthood, although the nature of this decline varies across disorders and cognitive functions, according to a study published online ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information—millions of shapes, colors and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain, this is no easy feat. On the one hand, the visual world alters ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet.
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are hot on the trail of elderly "super-agers"—whose sharp memories avoid typical age-related declines—in an attempt to study whether there are interventions ...
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