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New Blueprint of Brain Connections Reveals Extensive Reach of Central Regulator

April 7, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Thousands of our daily activities, from making coffee to taking a walk to saying hello to a neighbour, are made possible through an ancient collection of brain structures tucked away...

Mapping Functional Connectivities in 3D Artificial Brain Model by Analyzing Neural Signals

March 11, 2021
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Seoul, Korea — The human brain is less accessible than other organs because it is covered by a thick, hard skull. As a result, researches have been limited to low-resolution imaging or analysis of...

Beauty is in the Brain: AI Reads Brain Data, Generates Personally Attractive Images

March 8, 2021
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Helsinki, Finland — Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive. The device demonstrated this knowledge by its ability to create new...

Reactivating Ageing Stem Cells in the Brain

February 25, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — The stem cells in our brain generate new neurons throughout life, for example in the hippocampus. This region of the brain plays a key role for a range of memory processes. With...

Study Reveals that Brain Distributes Sensory Information Highly Efficiently

February 2, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — It has sometimes been suggested that humans use a tiny fraction of their brains. But, is this statement true? The authors of a study published on 20 January in the journal Nature...

Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Ageing

January 21, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Suppose Smokey the Bear were to go on a tear and start setting forest fires instead of putting them out. That roughly describes the behaviour of certain cells of our immune system that...

Automated Imaging Reveals Where TAU Protein Originates in the Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease

January 21, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers have developed an automated method that can track the development of harmful clumps of TAU protein related to Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, according to work...

Research Strongly Suggests COVID-19 Virus Enters the Brain

December 18, 2020
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Seattle, WA — More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2...

The Tree of Cortical Cell Types Describes the Diversity of Neurons in the Brain

December 3, 2020
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Houston, TX — The tree of life describes the evolution of life and seeks to define the relationships between species. Likewise, the tree of cell types aims to organize cells in the brain into groups...

How SARS-CoV-2 Reaches the Brain

December 1, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains...

How Brain Forms Sensory Memories

November 17, 2020
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Halle (Saale), Germany — The brain encodes information collected by our senses. However, to perceive our environment and to constructively interact with it, these sensory signals need to be interpreted...

Brain’s Memory Abilities Inspire AI Experts in Making Neural Networks Less ‘Forgetful’

September 21, 2020
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Amherst, MA — Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Baylor College of Medicine report that they have successfully addressed what they call a “major,...

Immune System Affects Mind and Body, Study Indicates

September 15, 2020
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St. Louis, MO — New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps illuminate a surprising mind-body connection. In mice, the researchers found that immune cells surrounding...

Holistic Bursting Cells might be Basis of Brain Cognition

September 7, 2020
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Beijing, China — In the past century, neuroscientists have discovered various functional classes of neurons that are relevant to cognitive functions of the brain. These include orientation selective...

Linking Sight and Movement

August 17, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — To get a better look at the world around them, animals constantly are in motion. Primates and people use complex eye movements to focus their vision (as humans do when reading, for...

Study Finds Out Why Some Words May Be More Memorable Than Others

June 30, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and...

Scientists Discover Cellular Structure of Poorly Understood Visual Brain Region

June 25, 2020
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Blacksburg, VA — Graduate student Ubadah Sabbagh placed a cold glass slide on the microscope. It was getting late and the lab was quiet. He adjusted a few settings, and traced along the optic tract...

First Model Proposed to Simulate the Functioning of Concept Cells in the Brain

June 22, 2020
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Novgorod Oblast, Russia — Lobachevsky University scientists together with foreign colleagues for the first time theoretically substantiated the existence of concept cells. These are individual neurons,...

Loneliness Alters Your Brain’s Social Network

June 16, 2020
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Washington, DC — Social media sites aren’t the only things that keep track of your social network — your brain does, too. But loneliness alters how the brain represents relationships, according...

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