News tagged with neutral stimulus
Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found. The study, which ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Thinking crickets -- 'cognitive' processes underlie memory recall in crickets
Activation of two different kinds of neurons is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology blocked octopaminergic (OA-ergic) and dopaminergic (DA-er ...
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Control of gene expression: Mediator MED26 shifts an idling polymerase into high gear
Look up "transcription"—the copying of a gene's DNA into RNA intermediaries—in any old molecular biology text book, and it all seems very simple: RNA polymerase II, the enzyme that catalyzes the ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Scientists identify protein that improves DNA repair under stress
Cells in the human body are constantly being exposed to stress from environmental chemicals or errors in routine cellular processes. While stress can cause damage, it can also provide the stimulus for undoing the damage. ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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A molecule that switches on and off
A single molecule whose charge state and shape can be changed at will: the latest breakthrough at the CEMES should prove a key advantage in the race for miniaturization. In addition to controlling its charge ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Revealing the wiring that allows us to adapt to the unexpected
Wouldn't life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? In reality, our brains are able to adapt to the unexpected using an inbuilt network that makes predictions about the world and monitors how those predictions ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Antioxidants cause fertility problems in females: study
Antioxidants are sold over the counter everywhere. They're added to food, drink and face cream. But according to Prof. Nava Dekel of the Biological Regulation Department, we still don't have a complete understanding of how ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Fixing the economy the scientific way
Here are two facts that might seem unrelated: (1) Most Americans cannot name a living scientist. (2) Over the last two years, by far the most pressing problems in the country have been the economy and the cost of health ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Spread of electronic medical records raises privacy concerns
As efforts to implement electronic medical records escalate, so do the debate about patient privacy and the potential for commercial exploitation of the technology.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Coaching with compassion can 'light up' human thoughts (w/ Video)
Coaching happens just about everywhere, and every day, with learning as the goal. Effective coaching can lead to smoothly functioning organizations, better productivity and potentially more profit. In classrooms, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Hurts so good -- neural clues to the calming effects of self-harm
The notion that cutting or burning oneself could provide relief from emotional distress is difficult to understand for most people, but it is an experience reported commonly among people who compulsively hurt themselves.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Telescope promises new look at universe - if NASA can get it into space
When it works, and if it works, the James Webb Space Telescope could revolutionize astronomy by peering so deep into space that scientists soon could study the dawn of time.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2010 |
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