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Study finds direct connection between brain and vagus nerve
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 30 (ANI): A direct connection between vagus nerve stimulation and its linkage to the brain's learning centres has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The finding could pave the way for therapies that strengthen memory
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Study reveals language areas in the human brain have unique connections
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 30 (ANI): The process through which our brain developed into a language-ready brain has been better understood by neuroscientists. The network of connections between language centres in our brains has grown more than previously imagined, compared to the connections betw
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Research pinpoints consciousness in animal brain using mouse 'brain map'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 29 (ANI): The location of consciousness in the brain may be becoming more clear to science. A recent study demonstrates the significance of specific brain connections in defining consciousness.
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Older adults' motor skill development is improved by brain stimulation
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): Non-invasive brain stimulation can restore optimal motor skill acquisition in people with diminished learning capabilities, e.g. due to age, according to a new study.
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Study: Working memory is reliant on cross-brain interactions
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): Neuroscientists have investigated the reciprocal interactions between two brain regions that represent visual working memory in mice. The team found that communication between these two loci of working memory, parietal cortex and premotor cortex, was co-depend
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Suniel Shetty collaborates with Content Engineers to form a Content Studio
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 28 (ANI/PNN): Get ready for disruption in the world of Content and Creative experiences. Content Engineers, a creative studio, the brainchild of industry pioneers Saurabh Varma and Utpaal Acharya, has collaborated with Suniel Shetty's Media and Entertainmen
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Particular brain reactions to traumatic stress are associated with PTSD ri
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Results from the largest prospective study of its kind indicate that in the initial days and weeks after experiencing trauma, individuals facing potentially threatening situations who had less activity in their hippocampus developed more severe posttraumatic s
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Researchers validate function of a particular brain region in mind-body co
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Researchers have produced definitive evidence that a specific region in the brain, called the subthalamic nucleus, is critical to governing the mind's communication with the body's motor control system. The findings, stemming from innovative experiments with h
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Research reveals working memory depends on cross-brain interactions
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL examined the reciprocal relationships between two brain areas that encode visual working memory in mice.
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Researchers find variations in brain activity of children with and without
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], July 26 (ANI): It's not simply a professional skill to multitask. It requires something known as cognitive flexibility, or the capacity to seamlessly switch between different brain processes, and it is essential to functioning as a person. Researchers fro
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Early childhood enrichment may help reverse effects of lead poisoning: Stu
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], July 25 (ANI): Over 3,500 genes in the hippocampus, a region of the brain important to learning and memory, are impacted by lead poisoning, according to a new study from Thomas Jefferson University.
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Language areas in the human brain have unique connections
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought.
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