News tagged with neural circuitry

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Complex mathematical problem solved by bees

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bumblebees can find the solution to a complex mathematical problem which keeps computers busy for days.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

'Sound' science offers platform for brain treatment and manipulation

The ability to diagnose and treat brain dysfunction without surgery, may rely on a new method of noninvasive brain stimulation using pulsed ultrasound developed by a team of scientists led by William "Jamie" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mysteries of colour vision revealed as scientists map out eye's neural network

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists, using sophisticated recording equipment, have mapped the neural circuitry involved in processing colour vision in humans for the first time.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers unravel mystery behind long-lasting memories

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine may reveal how long-lasting memories form in the brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Hi-res detector used by researchers to map neural circuits of the retina

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a sophisticated neural recording system developed by physicists at UC Santa Cruz, researchers were able to trace for the first time the neural circuitry that connects individual photoreceptors ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Chimp, bonobo study sheds light on the social brain

It's been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative analysis of their brains shows neuroanatomical ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Surprising diversity at a synapse hints at complex diversity of neural circuitry

A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place – a single neural connection in the body wall of flies.

Biology / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newborn brain cells show the way

Although the fact that we generate new brain cells throughout life is no longer disputed, their purpose has been the topic of much debate. Now, an international collaboration of researchers made a big leap ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Sex on the brain: 'Doublesex' gene key to determining fruit fly gender

The brains of males and females, and how they use them, may be far more different then previously thought, at least in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists describe the delicate balance in the brain that controls fear

The eerie music in the movie theater swells; the roller coaster crests and begins its descent; something goes bump in the night. Suddenly, you're scared: your heart thumps, your stomach clenches, your throat tightens, your ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chinks in the brain circuitry make some more vulnerable to anxiety

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people fret over the most trivial matters while others remain calm in the face of calamity? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two different ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Crayfish brain may offer rare insight into human decision making

Crayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit calculations, finds a University of Maryland study, opening the door to a new line of research that may help unravel the cellular brain activity involved in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Research Shows Some May Be Wired for Wider Waists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Development of obesity may be predetermined by how neurons in the brain are plugged together. New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that the amount of weight gained from ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers validate, extend fMRI research on brain activity

Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders

A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0