News tagged with nature neuroscience
Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group ...
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Jan 23, 2012 |
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A radar for ADAR: Altered gene tracks RNA editing in neurons
To track what they can't see, pilots look to the green glow of the radar screen. Now biologists monitoring gene expression, individual variation, and disease have a glowing green indicator of their own: Brown ...
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Study finds statistical error in large numbers of neuroscience papers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sander Nieuwenhuis and his associates from the Netherlands have done a study on one particular type of statistical error that apparently crops up in an inordinately large number of papers published in neuroscience ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Finches use their own form of grammar in their tweets
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Kyoto in Japan have discovered that the tweets of Bengalese finches follow a set of grammatical patter ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Researchers explain how tiny roundworms sense different kinds of touch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is the very long name of a very small creature, and one of the most commonly used animals in biological research.
May 20, 2011 |
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How culprit Alzheimer's protein wreaks havoc
(PhysOrg.com) -- How the toxic protein, amyloid, sets off a chain of events that leads to brain cell death during Alzheimer's disease is described in new detail in a study from the University of Bristol published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Advanced technology reveals activity of single neurons during seizures
The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 27, 2011 |
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Loss of key protein boosts neuron loss in ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterized by the progressive deterioration of brain and spinal cord neurons, resulting in ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Discovery of schedule for circuit formation in the hippocampus
Neurobiologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have determined the schedule of neuronal circuitry assembly in the hippocampus. As published online in Nature Neuroscience, they ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Certain parts of the brain activated in people who heard tailored health messages and quit smoking
People who demonstrated a stronger brain response to certain brain regions when receiving individually tailored smoking cessation messages were more likely to quit smoking four months after, a new study found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Immune molecule regulates brain connections
The number of connections between nerve cells in the brain can be regulated by an immune system molecule, according to a new study from UC Davis. The research, published Feb. 27 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, reveal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 27, 2011 |
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Researchers have found how brain cells control their movement to form the cerebral cortex
A study led by Academy Research Fellow Eleanor Coffey identifies new players that put the brakes on. They show in mice that lack the star player "JNK1", that newborn neurons spend less time in the multipolar stage, which ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Rewrite the textbooks: Findings challenge conventional wisdom of how neurons operate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Partnership of genes affects the brain's development (w/ Video)
The human brain consists of approximately one hundred billion nerve cells. Each of these cells needs to connect to specific other cells during the brain's development in order to form a fully functional organism. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 13, 2011 |
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Scientific research reveals brain alterations linking omega 3 deficit with depression
The link between deficits of omega-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids (AGPO-3) and the onset of depressive disorders is not new in the medical field. However, what has not been known until now is the brain mechanism by which ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Nature Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience is a scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of Nature. Its focus is original research papers relating specifically to neuroscience. Begun in May 1998 to respond to the rapid expansion of neuroscience research, Nature Neuroscience has quickly become one of the most significant neuroscience publications as judged by impact factor, with an impact factor of 16.980 in 2004 (ranked 23rd among all scientific journals).
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