Dopamine surge reveals how even for mice, ‘there’s no place like home’
Study demonstrates how 'coming home' produces a signal of comfort in miceCredit: Florida Atlantic University By monitoring a well-replicated biomarker ...
Tag: neurobiology
Physics can assist with key challenges in artificial intelligence
A physical mechanism a priori reveals how many examples in deep learning are required to achieve a desired test accuracy. ...
Research identifies ‘volume control’ in the brain that supports learning and memory
Discovery could help treatment of neurological disordersCredit: Illustration must credit: Michael Hoppa. HANOVER, N.H. - Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - ...
LSU Health New Orleans fellow LA’s 1st NIH Outstanding Scholar
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Khanh Do, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health New Orleans ...
Experts detail evidence base for cognitive rehabilitation for neurological conditions
In 'Cognitive Rehabilitation and Neuroimaging', Kessler Foundation scientists focus on the advances being achieved through the application of neuroimaging techniques ...
Researchers find a backup mechanism that removes cellular debris from the brain
Credit: Hiroyuki Konishi Microglia -- the brain's immune cells -- play a primary role in removing cellular debris from the ...
Researchers isolate and decode brain signal patterns for specific behaviors
New machine learning algorithm could discover novel neural patterns and enhance brain-machine interfacesCredit: Omid Sani & Maryam Shanechi, Shanechi Lab ...
USask launches first study on effects of smoked cannabis on brain development
Credit: Robert Laprairie/USask SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) pharmacologist Robert Laprairie will use a Brain Canada research grant to ...
Scientists snap molecular building blocks of brain computing
Credit: TAO Changlu Synapses are specialized devices where learning and memory occur. The efficient transmission of synaptic signals relies on ...
Bringing drugs to the brain with nanoparticles to treat neurodegenerative diseases
Nanoparticles could cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver drugs to the brainCredit: Jean-Michel Rabanel Researchers from the Institut national de ...
An Amazonian tea stimulates the formation of new neurons
Credit: Terpsichore. One of the main natural components of ayahuasca tea is dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which promotes neurogenesis --the formation of ...
The interactions between predictive brains, cultural artefacts, and embodied visual search
The project asks in what ways the worlds we build and inhabit alter our own minds and the ways we ...
Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neuron
Credit: Authors: Dmytro Puchkov, Marijn Kuijpers It appears that autophagy protects our neurons in the brain, but evidently for entirely ...
HKUST scientists make breakthrough discovery of new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s
Credit: HKUST Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have identified new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's ...
10 million euros to a new international collaboration on brain research
KiloNeurons project allows researchers to tool up from neurons to cognitionCredit: Photo: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Humans have long ...
How does the brain process fear?
Credit: Li lab/CSHL, 2020 When a frightful creature startles you, your brain may activate its fear-processing circuitry, sending your heart ...
Super-resolution microscopy of neurons
Credit: (Pictures: Team Markus Sauer / University of Wuerzburg) In the synapses of nerve cells (neurons) there are hundreds of ...
The ebb and flow of brain ventricles
Expansion of ventricles in MS patients often recedesCredit: Millward et al., MDC It is not only the heart that has ...
Brain region implicated in predicting the consequences of actions
Researchers monitor brain cells in mice that build mental models to simulate the futureCredit: Thomas Akam / Rui Costa / ...
Tel Aviv University professor named winner of the first Schmidt Science Polymath Award
Professor Oded Rechavi to receive $2.5 million for unrestricted research as part of prestigious prizeCredit: American Friends of Tel Aviv ...
