News tagged with facial motor cortex

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

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Scientists identify neuron types that mediate different behavioral states

In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Florida Institute have provided one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the detailed architecture of individual functionally characterized neurons in the cerebral ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diagnosing autism with MRI is one step closer

University of Utah (U of U) medical researchers have made an important step in diagnosing autism through using MRI, an advance that eventually could help health care providers indentify the problem much earlier in children ...

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created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers make first direct recording of mirror neurons in human brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mirror neurons, many say, are what make us human. They are the cells in the brain that fire not only when we perform a particular action but also when we watch someone else perform that same ...

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created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New imaging technique reveals structural changes in Tourette's

Magnetization Transfer Imaging, MTI, has been used to visualize previously unknown alterations in the cerebral architecture of patients with Tourette's syndrome. The researchers, writing in the open access journal BMC Ne ...

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The regulation of negative emotions: Impact on brain activity

Emotions play an important role in the lives of humans, and influence our behavior, thoughts, decisions, and interactions. The ability to regulate emotions is essential to both mental and physical well-being.

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created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 1

Children with Tourette's quicker at certain mental grammar skills

Children with Tourette’s syndrome may have to put up with some unwanted movement and verbal tics, but neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found that they are much ...

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created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Large-Scale Study Examines New Treatment for Adults Who Stutter

For an adult who stutters, the mere act of introducing oneself is enough to cause sweaty palms, heart palpitations, and worse. When particular sounds or syllables don't roll easily off the tongue, articulating something as ...

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created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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