News tagged with nerve network

Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists 'turn signals' for neuron growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper scheduled for publication in the January issue of Nature Photonics describes the use of spinning microparticles to direct the growth of nerve fiber, a discovery that could allow ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biologists gain new insights into brain circuit wiring

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered new ways by which nerves are guided to grow in highly directed ways to wire the brain during embryonic development.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves in live animals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long sought the ability to regenerate nerve cells, or neurons, which could offer a new way to treat spinal-cord damage as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Songbirds provide insight into speech production (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of a little singing bird, Penn State physicists are gaining insight into how the human brain functions, which may lead to a better understanding of complex vocal behavior, human ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How nerve cells grow: Researchers decode a molecular process that controls the growth

Brain researcher Hiroshi Kawabe has discovered the workings of a process that had been completely overlooked until now, and that allows nerve cells in the brain to grow and form complex networks. The study ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Scientists create working artificial nerve networks

Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For rapid non-linear information processing in the brain, small synaptic impulses are key

A novel theoretical framework for mathematically modeling nerve cells has illuminated for the first time how small synaptic impulses enable non-linear information processing in the brain. Reported in PLoS Co ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New information on the development of the brain

With their French colleagues, researchers at the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism in the memory centre of newborn that adjusts the maturation of the brain for the information processing required later in life. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network is located throughout ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Researchers find a key mechanism in the development of nerve cells

Chaos brews in the brains of newborns: the nerve cells are still bound only loosely to each other. Under the leadership of Academy Research Fellow Sari Lauri, a team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has been studying ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Controlling movements with light

German researchers at the Ruhr-Universitaet have succeeded in controlling the activity of certain nerve cells using light, thus influencing the movements of mice. By changing special receptors in nerve cells of the cerebellum ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular mechanism contributing to neuronal circuit formation found

German scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have discovered how sensory and motor fibers interact during development of neuronal circuits in the limbs: Both types of nerve fibers can guide this process. With this finding, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0