News tagged with nature neuroscience
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 ...
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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In breakthrough, nerve connections are regenerated after spinal cord injury
Researchers for the first time have induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement after spinal cord injury, showing the potential for new therapeutic approaches to paralysis and other motor ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2010 |
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Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences
The brains of psychopaths appear to be wired to keep seeking a reward at any cost, new research from Vanderbilt University finds. The research uncovers the role of the brain's reward system in psychopathy ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 14, 2010 |
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Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity
Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.
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Mar 07, 2010 |
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Scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury
UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 20, 2009 |
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Acupuncture's molecular effects pinned down
Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 30, 2010 |
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Study: Love music? Thank a substance in your brain
Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 09, 2011 |
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Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle
The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2010 |
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The brain of the fly - a high-speed computer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists use state-of-the-art methods to decode the basics of motion detection.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space
In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 30, 2009 |
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Structure deep within the brain may contribute to a rich, varied social life
Scientists have discovered that the amygdala, a small almond shaped structure deep within the temporal lobe, is important to a rich and varied social life among humans. The finding was published this week in a new study ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 26, 2010 |
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Neuronal diversity makes a difference, study says
Much like snowflakes, no two neurons are exactly alike. But it's not the size or shape that sets one neuron apart from another, it's the way it responds to incoming stimuli. Carnegie Mellon University researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 29, 2010 |
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Why surprises temporarily blind us
Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2010 |
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A change of mind: One protein appears to control neurons' ability to react to new experiences
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plasticity -- the brain's ability to change in response to external input -- is critical for most cognitive functions, including learning and memory. Those changes usually involve a strengthening ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered
A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 15, 2009 |
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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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