News tagged with brain research
IBM pursues chips that behave like brains
Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 18, 2011 |
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How the brain recognizes objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research have developed a new mathematical model to describe how the human brain visually identifies objects. The model accurately predicts ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Scientists succeed through stem cell therapy in reversing brain birth defects
Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in reversing brain birth defects in animal models, using stem cells to replace defective brain cells.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Researchers crack part of the neuronal code
(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Nicotine may have more profound impact than previously thought
Nicotine isn't just addictive. It may also interfere with dozens of cellular interactions in the body, new Brown University research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Hypothetical questions can influence behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the election cycle now underway, many Americans will be responding to political polls about who they support in the races for president and other offices. But can the poll questions themselves influence ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Mobile phones 'don't cause cancer': yet another study
Scientific evidence goes increasingly against the theory that mobile phones cause cancer, a new study has concluded.
Jul 02, 2011 |
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Researchers link blood sugar to normal cognitive aging
Maintaining blood sugar levels, even in the absence of disease, may be an important strategy for preserving cognitive health, suggests a study published by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Discovery of stem cell illuminates human brain evolution, points to therapies
UCSF scientists have discovered a new stem cell in the developing human brain. The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex - the site of higher cognitive function -- and likely accounts for the dramatic expansion ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 25, 2010 |
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Researchers find two brain circuits involved with habitual learning
Driving to and from work is a habit for most commuters - we do it without really thinking. But before our commutes became routine, we had to learn our way through trial-and-error exploration. A new study ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Brain Versus Gut: Our Inborn Food Fight
(PhysOrg.com) -- The relatively larger human brain makes us the most intelligent of the primates. But if we're so smart, how come we've eaten our way into an obesity epidemic? One reason is the relatively ...
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Scientists develop 'designer protein,' opening new door in cancer research
A major breakthrough in how to target and destroy the most malignant and aggressive brain cancer cells has been made by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Brain cell regrowth linked to benefits of exercise, sexual behaviors and reproductive issues
Two studies published by an interdisciplinary team of Hong Kong researchers in the current special issue of Cell Transplantation (20:1), now freely available on-line, link the regrowth of key adult brain cells (neurogenesis) in two ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 10, 2011 |
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New genetic technique converts skin cells into brain cells
A research breakthrough has proven that it is possible to reprogram mature cells from human skin directly into brain cells, without passing through the stem cell stage. The unexpectedly simple technique involves activating ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Society for Neuroscience to create BrainFacts.org
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has been awarded $1.53 million in funding over six years to create and maintain BrainFacts.org, a unique nonprofit online source for authoritative public information about the progress and pr ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 16, 2011 |
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