News tagged with neuronal circuit
Smelling the light: 'What if we make the nose act like a retina?'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 17, 2010 |
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Researchers gain better understanding of mechanism behind tau spreading in the brain
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have gained insight into the mechanism by which a pathological brain protein called tau contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative ...
May 02, 2012 |
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Neurons work like a chain of dominos to control action sequences (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- As anyone who as ever picked up a guitar or a tennis racket knows, precise timing is often an essential part of performing complex tasks. Now, by studying the brain circuits that control bird song, MIT researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 24, 2010 |
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Neurobiologists find that weak electrical fields in the brain help neurons fire together
The brain -- awake and sleeping -- is awash in electrical activity, and not just from the individual pings of single neurons communicating with each other. In fact, the brain is enveloped in countless overlapping ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random
Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Web-crawling the brain
The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Research defines neurons that control sociability in worms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ants colonize. Fish shoal. Flamingos flock and caribou herd. Earth is populated by inherently social beings. Even lowly worms seek out the benefits of companionship. New research at The Rockefeller ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Illuminating the brain: Technique stimulates brain cells, reveals how those neurons influence the rest
There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, and each one belongs to elaborate networks that control our behavior, thoughts and emotions. A message from a single neuron can have far-reaching consequences ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Zebrafish yield clues to how we process visual information
(PhysOrg.com) -- To a hungry fish on the prowl, the split-second neural processing required to see, track, and gobble up a darting flash of prey is a matter of survival.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2010 |
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Brain cells determine obesity -- not lack of willpower: study
An international study has discovered the reason why some people who eat a high-fat diet remain slim, yet others pile on the weight.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Unlocking the secret(ase) of building neural circuits
Mutant presenilin is infamous for its role in the most aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease -- early-onset familial Alzheimer's -- which can strike people as early as their 30s. In their latest study, researchers ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Brain connections for stress -- lessons from the worm
Did you ever wonder how you are able to perform complex tasks - even under stress? And how do emotions and memories mould your ability to live your everyday lives? The answer is just beginning to be understood ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 18, 2010 |
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Neuroengineers silence brain cells with multiple colors of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons, these tools could ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2010 |
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New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have theorized for decades about how neural networks might be able to accomplish the incredibly complex calculations the human brain performs all the time. But simply stabilizing ...
Sep 24, 2009 |
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