As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher regions use higher frequency waves
Credit: Miller Lab/The Picower Institute at MIT To produce your thoughts and actions, your brain processes information in a hierarchy ...
Tag: neurobiology
Brain’s immune cells promising cellular target for therapeutics
Microglia brain cells can be targeted with nanomedicines to tamp down uncontrolled inflammation activation, which causes neurodegenerative diseasesCredit: Nanxia Zhao ...
Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults
Credit: Elissa Newport WASHINGTON -- Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical ...
Improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are ...
The brain can induce diabetes remission in rodents, but how?
Fibroblast growth factor 1 effects on specific brain cell types, and on nets that enmesh neurons, inform how it restores ...
Repulsion mechanism between neurons governs fly brain structure
Credit: Kanazawa University The brain's structure has columnar features, which are hypothesized to arise from nerve cells (neurons) stemming from ...
Advancing the study of traumatic brain injuries
UTA mechanical engineer to expand research of blast-related traumatic brain injuriesCredit: UT Arlington The Office of Naval Research has awarded ...
Examining the side effects of Alzheimer’s disease dementia drugs
Goal: To improve quality of medication used in dementiaCredit: University of Houston In a first of its kind study, a ...
Study identifies how infection by Zika virus during pregnancy can affect the fetal brain
More than 30 Brazilian scientists investigated tens of thousands of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic variables, discovering several alterations caused by ...
Researchers probe Soldier sleep deprivation effects
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - New Army-funded study looks at effects of sleep deprivation, ...
Using magnetic resonance elastography to detect epilepsy
Credit: Beckman Institute A new study uses magnetic resonance elastography to compare the stiffness of the hippocampus in patients who ...
Why naming neurons can help cure brain disease
A unified classification of diverse cell types proposed by a Columbia-led team could shed light on how our brains are ...
Keeping the beat – it’s all in your brain
Researchers identify neural markers related to beat synchronizationCredit: McGill University How do people coordinate their actions with the sounds they ...
Brain tumor drug receives rare disease designations from the FDA
The drug treats fast-growing, deadly brain cancers with no effective treatmentCredit: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation The U.S. Food and Drug ...
Guilt by dissociation: Study sheds light on serotonin in autism
Leading FAU neuroscientist and collaborators help unravel neurotransmitter puzzleCredit: Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D. Recent estimates indicate a prevalence of autism ...
Tel Aviv University study sheds light on brain mechanism activated by uncertainty
Findings are relevant to an understanding of the neural mechanisms present in mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and ...
Narcolepsy drug did not increase risk of fetal malformation
Credit: Gunilla Sonnebring Modafinil is used to treat conditions such as narcolepsy. Reports have associated the drug with an increased ...
From virtual to reality! Virtual training improves physical and cognitive functions
Credit: Tohoku University Researchers at the Smart-Aging Research Center (IDAC) at Tohoku University have developed an innovative training protocol that, ...
Brain estrogen is key to brain protection when oxygen is low
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University When the brain isn't getting enough oxygen, estrogen produced by neurons in both ...
Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers led by Weili Lin, Ph.D., used magnetic resonance imaging techniques to show how human brain complexity develops ...
