February 25, 2016 by NewsBot - No Comment
Technology may not have caught up to the teleportation devices of science fiction, but now we have some idea of how the brain handles ‘beaming up’ from one location to another, thanks to research by neuroscientists involving some specially wired volunt…
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For the first time, researchers have identified the lifelong changes in gene expression in the brains of people born with Down syndrome (DS). The findings may lead to possible therapies for DS patients.
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A new cooling technique can both protect the brain’s speech centers during surgery and pinpoint the areas separately responsible for word formation and speech timing, report scientists.
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A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that adolescents with major depression who performed a computer-based task designed to…
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People who exercise have better mental fitness, and a new imaging study now shows why. The finding offers new insights into brain metabolism and why exercise could become an important part of treating depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders lin…
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A new study identifies genome variants and pathways that contribute to composing and arranging in musically trained individuals. The study estimates the inherited proportion as 30% for these characteristics. Genes linked to composing and arranging sugg…
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PyramidalExplorer, a free distributed software toolkit, has been developed to allow researchers to study the organization of the pyramidal neuron in depth.
February 25, 2016 by NewsBot - No Comment
The brain is an enormous network of communication, containing over 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, with branches that connect at more than 100 trillion points. They are constantly sending signals through a vast neuron forest that forms memories, t…
February 25, 2016 by NewsBot - No Comment
Couples can tend to be more alike in some characteristics than might otherwise be expected by chance.
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Slow-wave sleep – the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day’s events into permanent memories – is fragmented in adulthood in people exposed to high levels of alcohol in the womb.
