News tagged with brain mapping

Neuroscientists map intelligence in the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Super sense of smell not innate

World-class "noses" in the perfume and wine business are not born with an outsized sense of smell but acquire it through years of professional sniffing, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Brain maps' track how humans reach

(PhysOrg.com) -- A ballet dancer grasps her partner's hand to connect for a pas de deux. Later that night, in the dark, she reaches for her calf to massage a sore spot. Her brain is using different "maps" to plan for each ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dual approach gives a more accurate picture of the autistic brain

A new study, the first of its kind, combines two complementary analytical brain imaging techniques, to provide a more comprehensive and accurate picture of the neuroanatomy of the autistic brain. The study, published in the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer Technique Creates Map of a Fruit Fly Brain

Researchers, led by Hanchuan Peng, at the Janelia Farm Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia are working to map the fruit fly brain in a way that highlights how neurons ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Discovery gives insight into brain 'replay' process

The hippocampus, a part of the brain essential for memory, has long been known to "replay" recently experienced events. Previously, replay was believed to be a simple process of reviewing recent experiences in order to help ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers image earliest signs of Alzheimer's, before symptoms appear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers find

Lost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the Middle of Brain Surgery, Patients Wake Up and Begin Talking

Kim Delvaux was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor when doctors at Loyola University Hospital woke her up. Dr. Vikram Prabhu talked to her about her favorite topics -- NASCAR and her kids.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

More obesity blues: Obese people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's

Obesity is on a rampage, with the World Health Organization pegging the numbers at more than 300 million worldwide, with a billion more overweight. With obesity comes the increased risk for cardiovascular disease, Type II ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA psychologists have determined for the first time that a gene linked with physical pain sensitivity is associated with social pain sensitivity as well.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Can brain scans read your mind? Neuroscientists provides new insights

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell" -- Gordon Lightfoot

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A glimpse at vision: First impressions count

Human beings far outpace computers in their ability to recognize faces and other objects, handling with ease variations in size, color, orientation, lighting conditions and other factors. But how our brains ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Brain wave patterns can predict blunders, new study finds

From spilling a cup of coffee to failing to notice a stop sign, everyone makes an occasional error due to lack of attention. Now a team led by a researcher at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Brain mapping

Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps.

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