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High-frequency brain wave patterns in motor cortex can predict upcoming mo
Updated : 2 months ago IST
In a new study published on January 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hatsopoulos and his team have found evidence that the brain does indeed use the spatial organization of high frequency propagating waves of neuronal activity during movement.
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Upcoming body movement can be predicted by high-frequency brain wave patte
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, PhD, has long been fascinated by space. Specifically, the physical space occupied by the brain.
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Researchers find ketamine can increase brain noise
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
An international team of researchers has found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain's background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals and disrupting their transmission between the thalamus and the cortex.
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Researchers use technology to show organoids respond to external sensory s
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals' cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli. The implanted organoids reacted to visual stimuli in the same wa
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Study sheds light on how the brain stores remote fear memory
Updated : 3 months ago IST
A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past, a few months to decades ago. A University of California, Riverside, mouse study published in Nature Neuroscience has now spelt out the fundamental mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear me
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Study reveals how neurons respond to aged-related iron accumulation
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Iron (Fe) accumulates in the brain cortex with aging. A plethora of studies indicate that progressive iron accumulation in the substantia nigra (SN) in the aged human brain is a major risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, but not everyone. This is bec
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New findings on neuronal activities in the sensorimotor cortex: Research
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Freiburg has found important clues about the functioning of the sensorimotor cortex. The new findings on neuronal activities in this brain area could be helpful for the further development and use of so-called neuroprostheses. These hav
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Laser therapy is beneficial in treating short-term memory problems: Study
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Beijing Normal University in China, demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short-term, or working memory in people by up to 25 per cent.
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Study finds laser therapy effective for improving short term memory proble
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers revealed how laser therapy benefit in improving short-term memory.
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Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brain: Study
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Neuroscientists discovered that the adult brain contains millions of 'silent synapses' immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new memories.
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Scientists create new map of developing cerebral cortex
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have mapped the surface of the cortex of the young human brain with unprecedented resolution, revealing the development of key functional regions from two months before birth to two years after.
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Study finds that children learn more quickly than adults
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
If you've ever had the feeling that your elementary school kids were "smarter" than you or at least capable of picking up new information and skills faster, a new study in Current Biology on November 15 suggests you're absolutely right.
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