News tagged with active region
From touchpad to thought-pad? Research shows that digital images can be manipulated with the mind
Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Brain's energy restored during sleep, suggests animal study
In the initial stages of sleep, energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions found to be active during waking hours, according to new research in the June 30 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. These ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Why humans believe that better things come to those who wait
New research reveals a brain circuit that seems to underlie the ability of humans to resist instant gratification and delay reward for months, or even years, in order to earn a better payoff. The study, published by Cell ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Moral judgments can be altered by disrupting specific brain region
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2010 |
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A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2009 |
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Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random
Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.
Jan 12, 2009 |
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'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communications (Update)
An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory (video) on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Sleep-deprived people make risky decisions based on too much optimism
The powers that be in Las Vegas figured out something long before neuroscientists at two Duke University medical schools confirmed their ideas this week: Trying to make decisions while sleep-deprived can lead to a case of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Teen brains over-process rewards, suggesting root of risky behavior, mental ills
University of Pittsburgh researchers have recorded neuron activity in adolescent rat brains that could reveal the biological root of the teenage propensity to consider rewards over consequences and explain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Zebrafish yield clues to how we process visual information
(PhysOrg.com) -- To a hungry fish on the prowl, the split-second neural processing required to see, track, and gobble up a darting flash of prey is a matter of survival.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2010 |
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Inherited brain activity predicts childhood risk for anxiety
A new study focused on anxiety and brain activity pinpoints the brain regions that are relevant to developing childhood anxiety. The findings, published in the Aug. 12 edition of the journal Nature, may lead to new strate ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 11, 2010 |
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The network in our heads: What our brains have in common with the internet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our brain works as a set of networks - much like the internet. Could our understanding of the internet help us in understanding our brains? Gabriele Lohmann and her colleagues from the Max ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2010 |
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The Queen and I: How autistic brain distinguishes oneself from others
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the brains of individuals with autism are less active when engaged in self-reflective thought. The study published today in the journal Brain provid ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Scientists create entirely new way to study brain function
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina have devised a chemical technique that promises to allow neuroscientists to discover the function of any population of neurons in an animal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 15, 2009 |
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