News tagged with neural function
Japanese honeybees swarm huge hornet predator to kill it with heat
Japanese honeybees face a formidable foe in the Asian giant hornet, a fierce predator that can reach 40mm long or larger, but the bees have developed a novel defense mechanism: they create a "hot defensive bee ball," swarming ...
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Study identifies neural activity linked to food addiction
Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Youth at risk for obesity show greater brain activity in response to food
Do people overeat because they experience less reward from eating or because they experience more reward from eating? In the March 23, 2011 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience Oregon Research Institute (ORI) senior scient ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Trouble with the latest dance move? GABA chemical messenger might be to blame
If you tend to have trouble picking up the latest dance moves or learning to play a new piano piece, there might be an explanation. A new study published online on March 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 03, 2011 |
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The brain as a 'task machine'
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study published online on February 17 in Current Biology. Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read words ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Neural mechanisms linked with vulnerability to anxiety
New research examines the anxious brain during a fear conditioning task and provides insight into why some individuals may be more or less prone to anxiety disorders. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 10 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Researchers working on tiny, implantable computers to restore lost brain functions
Tiny, implantable computers that would restore brain function lost to disease or injury is the goal of University of Washington research recently funded by a $1 million, three-year grant from the W.M. Keck ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Study reveals how taking an active role in learning enhances memory
Good news for control freaks! New research confirms that having some authority over how one takes in new information significantly enhances one's ability to remember it. The study, in the journal Nature Ne ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Early life experience modifies gene vital to normal brain function
Early life stress, such as an extreme lack of parental affection, has lasting effects on a gene important to normal brain processes and also tied to mental disorders, according to a new animal study in the Sept. 29 issue ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Postpartum about brain, not just hormones
Women with postpartum depression who viewed pictures of scared or angry faces had less activity as shown by functional magnetic resonance brain imaging than did healthy mothers in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Brain to behaviour
How do you know where your keys are? Why do we develop habits and what influences our judgement? Throughout the Cardiff University, psychologists, behavioural geneticists and neurologists are working together to understand ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Gain and Loss in Optimistic Versus Pessimistic Brains
Our belief as to whether we will likely succeed or fail at a given task -- and the consequences of winning or losing -- directly affects the levels of neural effort put forth in movement-planning circuits ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Good conversation results in a 'mind meld'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying human conversation have discovered the brains of listeners and speakers become synchronized, and this "neural coupling" makes for effective communication. In essence, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults
A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Brave brains: Neural mechanisms of courage
A fascinating new study combines snakes with brain imaging in order to uncover neural mechanisms associated with "courage." The research, published by Cell Press in the June 24 issue of the journal Neuron, provides fascin ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 23, 2010 |
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