Search results for mirror neurons

Optics & Photonics Aug 23, 2018

Handheld imager poised to provide new insights into eye and brain diseases

Researchers have developed and demonstrated the first handheld ophthalmology instrument with resolution-boosting adaptive optics technology that can image individual photoreceptors in the eye. The new portable instrument ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 30, 2018

Adapting technology to image blood vessels in skin disease

Small vessel vasculitis—inflammation of the small blood vessels—appears as a stain of tiny, red dots covering the skin that, depending on the severity, can evolve into painful pustules or ulcers. In some patients, it may ...

Plants & Animals Jul 26, 2018

Zebrafish interactions offer help in studying social behavior disorders

July 26, 2018—University of Oregon scientists have identified brain cells vital to how zebrafish socialize. When the neurons are disabled, their orientation to one another breaks down in ways similar to socialization problems ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 16, 2018

New development in 3-D super-resolution imaging gives insight on Alzheimer's disease

Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, and that the disease begins 10 to 20 years before people show up at the doctor's office with memory problems.

Ecology Jun 6, 2018

Decoding the honeybee dance could lead to healthier hives

Unravelling one of the most elaborate forms of non-human communication – the honeybee's waggle dance – could help researchers better understand insect brains and make farming more environmentally friendly.

Biotechnology Apr 26, 2018

Scientists reveal the genetic roadmap to building an entire organism from a single cell

Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg.

Plants & Animals Mar 29, 2018

Monkeys' brains synchronize as they collaborate to perform a motor task

Though their purpose and function are still largely unknown, mirror neurons in the brain are believed by some neuroscientists to be central to how humans relate to each other. Deficiencies in mirror neurons might also play ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 26, 2018

Ultrathin endoscope captures neurons firing deep in the brain

Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair that can image the activity of neurons in the brains of living mice. Because it is so thin, the endoscope can reach deep into the brain, giving researchers access ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 16, 2018

Memory gene goes viral

Two independent teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have discovered that a gene crucial for learning, called Arc, can send its genetic material from one neuron ...

Biochemistry Nov 13, 2017

Researchers identify the inner workings of cellular calcium pumps

For the first time, researchers have observed the ion pumps that activate cell transport and signal systems. This ensures the function of biomolecular mechanisms.

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