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Cognitive behavioral therapy improves brain circuits to relieve depression
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
One of the most popular therapies for depression is cognitive behavioural therapy, which can help people learn coping mechanisms for common problems, reinforce positive actions, and challenge negative thinking. But can thinking and acting differently result in long-lasting brain changes?
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Study reveals how bright-light treatment improves sleep in stressed mice
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Sleep disturbance is linked to chronic stress. In their current study, Lu Huang and colleagues uncover the brain circuit behind this behaviour and explain how bright-light treatment may combat it. The study was carried out in mice at Jinan University in China and was published in the open ac
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Study reveals how temperatures trigger brain to boost appetite
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Scripps Research neuroscientists have uncovered brain circuits that cause mammals to crave more food when exposed to cold temperatures.
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Study shed new light on disorders of consciousness
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Human Brain Project researchers used a model-based approach to uncover brain circuits involved in consciousness.
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Social deficits, seizures in autism type linked to overactive brain circui
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A genetic variant of autism and schizophrenia that causes social deficits and seizures in mice and people has been linked to a cause, according to researchers from Northwestern Medicine.
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Research suggests direct connection between spatial goals, behaviour in br
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Mice use a specific brain mechanism to automatically flee to cover when threatened, according to study results from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL. Neuroscientists have never before been able to establish such a strong connection between s
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Scientists identify neural circuit that enables self-localization in zebra
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A multiregional brain circuit allows larval zebrafish to track where they are, where they've been, and how to get back to their original location after being displaced, researchers report December 22 in the journal Cell. The results shed light on how larval zebrafish track their own location
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Researchers find gut-brain connection for social development
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
To learn to socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut. Gut microbes encourage specialized cells to prune back extra connections in brain circuits that control social behaviour, new UO research in zebrafish shows. Pruning is essential for the development of normal social behavior.
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Neuroscientists look deep into the eyes of the octopus: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
By studying the visual system of an octopus, researchers hope to understand how its brain organization compares to that of humans and other vertebrates. Their results could provide insight into the evolution of visual systems across species.
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Research finds gut-brain connection for social behavior
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Social behavior is a complex phenomenon involving many parts of the brain. Researchers found that gut microorganisms cut out excess connections in brain circuits for social development.
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Scientists develop wireless activation of specific brain circuits in fruit
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): According to a recent study, a group of researchers developed wireless technology to remotely activate specific brain circuits in fruit flies in just one second.
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Neuroengineers use magnetic fields to activate neurons in fruit flies: Res
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): Neuroengineers have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits. Researchers showed they could control the behaviour of freely moving fruit flies using magnetic signals that activated genetically engineered neurons causing the flies to perf
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