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 ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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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

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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

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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

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Researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation

Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a "stem cell," such as a neural stem cell. As helpful as this is to researchers, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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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

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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

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Sensory detection and discrimination: Study reveals neural basis of rapid brain adaptation

(PhysOrg.com) -- You detect an object flying at your head. What do you do? You probably first move out of the way — and then you try to determine what the object is. Your brain is able to quickly switch ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Research uncovers extensive natural recovery after spinal cord injury

A study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows unexpected and extensive natural recovery after spinal cord injury in primates. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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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

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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

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'Remote Control' for Cholesterol Regulation Discovered in Brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Circulation of cholesterol is regulated in the brain by the hunger-signaling hormone ghrelin, researchers say. The finding points to a new potential target for the pharmacologic control of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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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

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Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found. The study, which ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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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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