Tag: neuroscience
Discovery opens new opportunities to slow or reverse multiple sclerosis
Scientists solve century-old neuroscience mystery; answers may lead to epilepsy treatment
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
Even mild physical activity immediately improves memory function: Now you just need to remember to exercise!
Characterizing pig hippocampus could improve translational neuroscience
Restless legs syndrome brain stimulation study supports motor cortex ‘excitability’ as a cause: Experiments with patients suggest brain stimulation may be a viable treatment
Improving cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease: New cell surface markers
Working memory might be more flexible than previously thought
Drug makes rats less likely to imbibe alcohol
Reading the motor intention from brain activity within 100ms
Brain game doesn’t offer brain gain
Your Earliest Memory Probably Never Happened
Cellular ‘garbage disposal’ has another job
Non-opioid drug relieves pain in mice, targets immune cells: Investigational drug works differently than addictive opioid drugs
Neuroscientists uncover secret to intelligence in parrots: Study shows evidence of convergence in bird and primate evolution
Fundamental rule of brain plasticity
Graphene carpets: So neurons communicate better
Thorny life of new-born neurons: Repeated stimulation enlarges dendritic spines
A hydrogel restores breathing after spinal cord injury in animal models: Lab tests demonstrate that a hydrogel could help repair damaged spinal nerves that control breathing, an advance that could eventually be developed into new patient treatment
Brain structure may predict diet success: Volume of two brain regions is associated with dietary self-control
Brain activity patterns underlying fluent speech revealed: Research could pave the way for a brain prosthetic to translate thoughts into speech
Which role does the brain play in prosocial behavior?
Self-consistency influences how we make decisions
Memory molecule limits plasticity by calibrating calcium: Researchers discovered a new way that the protein RGS14 functions as a molecular brake on learning and memory
Feel the burn: Biochemical pathway that spurs beige fat cells to burn energy is discovered