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Do you know what happens in brain while daydreaming?
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
A study led by Harvard Medical School researchers one step closer to understanding what happens in the brain during daydreaming.
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Study investigates what happens in brain when daydreaming
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
A mouse study published in Nature has taken a team led by Harvard Medical School researchers one step closer to understanding what happens in the brain during daydreaming.
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Thalamus regulates adult brain plasticity: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Scientists discovered that the thalamus, which acts as a relay station for incoming sensory and motor information, plays an unexpected role in this process. The cortex is commonly regarded to have a significant part in the adult brain's ability to adapt.
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Researchers identify anatomical changes in brains after patients sight is
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Neuroscientists for many decades assumed that the brain could learn to make sense of visual input during a critical time that ended around the age of 6 or 7.
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Study reveals how antidepressant boosts brain plasticity
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A recent study published in Neuropsychopharmacology by experts from the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland offers insight into the brain plasticity processes generated by the antidepressant fluoxetine.
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Researchers discover how oxytocin drives connections of newly integrated a
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The brain's plasticity--its capacity to change itself by reorganising preexisting neural networks and establishing new ones to acquire new functional properties--makes it possible to learn a new task, master a musical instrument, or adjust to the environment's constant change. Additionally,
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Research finds how single brain hemisphere can support words, face recogni
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
During recent brain plasticity and visual perception research, it was found that individuals who had had surgery as children to remove half of their brains correctly detected differences between words or faces more than 80 per cent of the time.
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Study finds how words and face recognition can be adequately supported wit
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The findings, published by University of Pittsburgh researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first-ever attempt to characterize neuroplasticity in humans and understand whether a single brain hemisphere can perform functions typically split betw
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Listening to favourite music improves brain plasticity: Study
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], December 6 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Unity Health Toronto have demonstrated that repeated listening to personally meaningful music induces beneficial brain plasticity in patients with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's disease.
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How does sleep help brain to reorganize itself?
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 3 (ANI): Sleeping is key for a healthy brain. A recent study revealed how sleep contributes to brain plasticity - the ability for our brain to change and reorganise itself.
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