Tag: Brain-Computer Interfaces
Protein-transport discovery may help define new strategies for treating eye disease: Study reveals how proteins from the eye’s nerve cells relay visual cues to different parts of the brain
Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells: UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine use
Mood neurons mature during adolescence: Late-maturing amygdala neurons may play role in emotional development, mood disorders
How information is like snacks, money, and drugs — to your brain: Researchers demonstrate common neural code for information and money; both act on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system
How electrical stimulation reorganizes the brain: Approach could inform efforts to improve brain stimulation treatments for depression, other psychiatric disorders
Ultrasound method restores dopaminergic pathway in brain at Parkinson’s early stages
Insulin under the influence of light
Scientists unlock new role for nervous system in regeneration: Researchers were able to explain, predict, and even manipulate regeneration of the flatworm body
Trigger region found for absence epileptic seizures
Messages of stewardship affect Christians’ attitudes about climate change
Could an eye doctor diagnose Alzheimer’s before you have symptoms? Study suggests loss of blood vessels in retina reflect changes in brain health
Mapping brain circuits in newborns may aid early detection of autism: Novel, whole-brain, noninvasive MRI techniques will produce 4-D brain atlas as reference tool
First model of mitochondrial epilepsy: Research gives hope to producing better therapies for this debilitating condition
Simple drug combination creates new neurons from neighboring cells
Brain hand ‘map’ is maintained in amputees with and without phantom limb sensations
Neuroimaging shows social exclusion spurs extremism in those vulnerable to radicalization
Classifying brain microglia: Which are good and which are bad? New study is perhaps the most comprehensive survey of brain microglia ever conducted
Being yelled at: Our brain on alert in a flash
Why does second-hand experience of neighborhood violence affect some youth, but not others?
Fluorescent marker can help guide surgeons to remove dangerous brain tumor cells more accurately
Breakthrough in treating paralysis: Targeted neurotechnology restores walking in humans with spinal cord injury
Hallucinations associated with brain hyperactivity in people with macular degeneration
Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain: How the brain retroactively makes sense of rapid auditory and visual sensory stimulation
Neuroscientists see clues to brain maturation in adolescent rats
Noninvasive brain stimulation may soon reach more aphasia patients
Restless legs syndrome brain stimulation study supports motor cortex ‘excitability’ as a cause: Experiments with patients suggest brain stimulation may be a viable treatment
Sweeter dreams in a peaceful mind
Working memory might be more flexible than previously thought