News tagged with brain circuitry
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A bird's song may teach us about human speech disorders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can the song of a small bird provide valuable insights into human stuttering and speech-related disorders and conditions, including autism and stroke? New research by UCLA life scientists ...
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Switching senses: Biologists find that leeches shift the way they locate prey in adulthood
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many meat-eating animals have unique ways of hunting down a meal using their senses. To find a tasty treat, bats use echolocation, snakes rely on infrared vision, and owls take advantage of ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Can magnetism help us control the brain, remotely?
University at Buffalo scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to remotely control ion channels, neurons in cell culture and even the movement of a tiny worm.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 03, 2011 |
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New modeling of brain's circuitry may bring better understanding of Parkinson's disease
Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry that may provide a better understanding of how and why information ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Bursting neurons follow the same beat, sometimes
A simplified mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry shows that repetitious, overlapped firing of neurons can lead to the waves of overly synchronized brain activity that may cause the halting movements that are ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Scientists discover anti-anxiety circuit in brain region considered the seat of fear
Stimulation of a distinct brain circuit that lies within a brain structure typically associated with fearfulness produces the opposite effect: Its activity, instead of triggering or increasing anxiety, counters ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Chinks in the brain circuitry make some more vulnerable to anxiety
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people fret over the most trivial matters while others remain calm in the face of calamity? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two different ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Researchers take major step toward first biological test for autism
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals with high-functioning ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Researchers identify a molecular switch that controls neuronal migration in the developing brain
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have identified key components of a signaling pathway that controls the departure of neurons from the brain niche where they form and allows these cells ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Scientists describe the delicate balance in the brain that controls fear
The eerie music in the movie theater swells; the roller coaster crests and begins its descent; something goes bump in the night. Suddenly, you're scared: your heart thumps, your stomach clenches, your throat tightens, your ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Differences in human and Neanderthal brains set in just after birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brains of newborn humans and Neanderthals are about the same size and appear rather similar overall. It's mainly after birth, and specifically in the first year of life, that the differences ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Postpartum about brain, not just hormones
Women with postpartum depression who viewed pictures of scared or angry faces had less activity as shown by functional magnetic resonance brain imaging than did healthy mothers in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Soldiers' helmets could control brain activity with ultrasound
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of DARPA's latest pursuits of cutting-edge research involves a neurotechnology lab at Arizona State University that specializes in ultrasonic brain stimulation. By implementing the technology ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Research Shows Some May Be Wired for Wider Waists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Development of obesity may be predetermined by how neurons in the brain are plugged together. New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that the amount of weight gained from ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Relatives of individuals with autism tend to display abnormal eye movements
Abnormal eye movements and other sensorimotor and neurobehavioral impairments appear common in unaffected family members of individuals with autism, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 02, 2010 |
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