News tagged with neuronal network

Researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA

Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Activity of a single brain cell can predict if we spend or save

(PhysOrg.com) -- By eavesdropping on the activity of a single brain cell, Yale University researchers can predict the outcome of decisions such as whether you will dip into your retirement account to buy a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ego City: Cities organized like human brains

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

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

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | 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

Scientists identify neuron types that mediate different behavioral states

In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Florida Institute have provided one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the detailed architecture of individual functionally characterized neurons in the cerebral ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | 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

Researchers identify 'Facebook neurons'

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that within the brain's neocortex lies a subnetwork of highly active neurons that behave much like people in social networks. Like Facebook, these neuronal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | 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

Rescue services at the cellular level: How stem cells help brain to regain its functions after stroke

(PhysOrg.com) -- The aim of regenerative medicine is to repair or replace malfunctioning cells, tissues, and even organs. Stem cells, the multi-taskers and jacks-of-all-trades that can regenerate themselves ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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 ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

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

The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language

Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have constructed a mathematical activity model of the brain's frontal and parietal parts, to increase the understanding of the capacity of the working ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0