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• First 3D Map of the Brain’s Connections

  
  GEARFUSE — Authority: 651
  We knew anatomy could be gorgeous , but this is beyond anything else we’ve ever seen, and it’s guranteed to be something you haven’t seen, being the first 3D image of a brain’s connections . Van Wedeen, a Harvard radiology professor, is awestruck: “We’ve never really seen the brain – it’s been ...
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• All-Optical Technique Determines When Neurons Inhibit Or Excite One Another

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 161
  Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons’ ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how [...]
  19 hours ago

• Brainy Psychologist Ties Phat Loot Love To Dopamine Neurons, WoW Raiders Explain Epic Need In More Manageable Terms

  
  Ripten Video Game Blog — Authority: 589
  I’ve seen my fair share of loot drops during my time as an epically geared Alliance Warrior in the World of Warcraft, and I’d be lying if I told you that my butt-cheeks didn’t clench in chair hopping excitement every time a new piece of gear came my way. Though, I never thought much about the “psychological” ...
  20 hours ago

• Molecules that protect brain cells from Parkinson’s identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 29 (ANI): Whitehead Institute researchers claim to have identified small molecules that appear to be capable of protecting brain cells from alpha-synuclein toxicity, a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease.During the study, the team came across four related small molecules that prevented the development of ...
  23 hours ago

• Memory in isolated brain tissue. “… we had to watch several different cells to see the stored information …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  Ben W Strowbridge PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, from the  Case Western Reserve University, has said: “This is the first time anyone has stored information in spontaneously active pieces of mammalian brain tissue.” “It is probably not a coincidence that we were able to ...
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• Source of nonallergic itch found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): Remember that itching sensation that refused to go no matter how much you scratched it? Well, sensory scientists from Johns Hopkins have now discovered in mice a molecular basis for such nonallergic itch.Using the itch-inducing compound chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, the team identified ...
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• Scientists figure out how brain encodes memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 25 (IANS) Scientists have figured out how brain encodes memories and this could help develop new drugs for brain disorders.The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) team is the first to uncover a central process in encoding memories, which occurs at the level of synapse, connecting neurons with ...
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• How brain encodes memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara have discovered how the brain encodes memories. According to researchers, the finding could eventually lead to the development of new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer’s.The researchers have uncovered a central process in encoding ...
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• Stress Relief: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 121
  Stress Relief: Why Exercise Ruduces Anxiety By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that ...
  1 week ago

• Big picture implications of neuroplasticity research

  
  playthink — Authority: 123
  As part of the promotion for the SharpBrains virtual summit on technology and cognitive health and performance (which looks to be a fantastic event), Alvaro Fernandez interviewed   Dr. Michael Merzenich , a pioneer in brain plasticity research. The brief interview is focused on “the likely big-picture ...
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• Maternal behaviour creates new neurons

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): A new study on adult, virgin rats has shown that maternal behaviour itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed. In the study, virgin, or nulliparous, rats were exposed to foster pups each day until they began to ...
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• Motherly Behavior Grows New Brain Cells (LiveScience.com)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  LiveScience.com - The act of mothering may trigger the development of maternal neurons, at least in rats, according to a new study.
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• Glia: The Other Brain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
     With eager hands of a ten-year-old boy I sliced the heart in two with a butcher knife. All was revealed-four chambers separated by moist gristly valves that suck blood into auricles and squeeze it out the aorta and pulmonary artery. Fascinated, I asked Mom, "Next time, can you get me a brain?" When she ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strategies to Protect New Brain Cells Against Alzheimers Disease

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 126
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting Corrier-journal.comactivities Here is a dementia music activity ScienceDaily — Stimulating the growth of new neurons ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s official: Dogs are smarter than cats, but just

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec 10 (ANI): The world is divided into “dog people” and “cat people”, each passionately believing that their preferred pet is superior. Now, a new study has put an end to this long debate, by claiming that dogs are indeed better than felines.And thus, while attempting to quantify the characteristics ...
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• The Nature of Excitement

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      Fear is excitement without breath. Robert Heller Yesterday, I saw an old friend and she asked me whats new? With great enthusiasm I told her "I started a blog". Immediately, she asked "can your patients read it?" I said, "absolutely and you should watch what you say since your words may show up tomorrow". ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Path Have You Chosen?

  
  Anyone can be a Healer — Authority: 111
  How long have you been seeking authentic truth? Although the collective energy usually presents itself as drowning in chaos, I firmly hold onto the transfiguring divine love known as the Feminine Principle, Holy Spirit, the Divine Mother vibration. It is a mighty force and the greatest as far as I am concerned in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Aggression-promoting pheromone in flies discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, December 7 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an aggression-promoting pheromone, specific chemicals used by a particular species to communicate and to control their behavior, in flies.The study, published in Nature, also identified the neurons in the fly’s antenna that detect this pheromone and relay the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Being ‘on the same wavelength’: the neuroscience of social interaction

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  Located in the brain’s “mirror neurons” is the physiological mechanism for social interaction. Parts of our brains become active when we see something in motion, for example. ‘It seems we are not just observers of the social scene but that we automatically share the experiences and emotions of the people we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stable nerves preserve memories lifelong

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) Our ability to absorb new information or to retain lifelong memories seems to lie in the minute junctions where nerve cells communicate, says a new study.New York University School of Medicine (NYUSM) researchers discovered that a delicate balancing act occurs in the brain where nerve cell ...
  3 weeks ago

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