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Adult brain's plasticity is controlled by thalamus: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A recent study revealed that the thalamus, which serves as a relay station for incoming sensory and motor information, really plays a surprising function in this process.
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People with obesity may have changed connection patterns with particular b
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to a recent study, people who are obese exhibit hypo-connectivity with the left inferior frontal gyrus (related with cognitive control) and hyper-connectivity with a portion of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex
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Study gives more insight into conscious experience that resides in brain
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
One unusual problem that more than a quarter of stroke sufferers have is the loss of conscious awareness for half of what their eyes see.
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Study discovers how brain processes, stores words that we hear
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
According to neuroscientists from Georgetown University Medical Centre, the brain's auditory lexicon, or catalogue of verbal language, is located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not the rear - a discovery that challenges a century-long understanding of this part of the brain. Th
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Study reveals testosterone's effects on brain change, levels are higher du
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC) of the brain is more involved in emotion regulation when testosterone levels are higher during adolescence, but the opposite is true during maturity.
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Pregnancy hormone repairs myelin damage in an MS mouse model: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers found that the pregnancy hormone estriol reversed myelin breakdown in the cortex of a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, a key region affected in the disease.
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Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Debilitating cognitive deficiencies frequently accompany mood disorders and other mental illnesses. There are presently few therapies available, however research in both animals and people has suggested that medications that stimulate serotonin receptors, such the laxative prucalopride, may
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Israeli research reveals brain's mechanism for memory consolidation during
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The study found that the brain consolidates memories during sleep through coordination between the hippocampus and frontal cortex. Moreover, the researchers managed to improve memory consolidation by utilizing deep-brain stimulation during sleep.The study found that the brain consolidates me
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Brain's primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The subjective experience of sound involves various psychological and cognitive factors that give sounds additional meaning and significance. The frequency and loudness of sounds that we hear around us literally describe those sounds. But for humans, sounds carry significance that goes beyon
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High-frequency brain wave patterns in motor cortex can predict upcoming mo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In a new study published on January 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hatsopoulos and his team have found evidence that the brain does indeed use the spatial organization of high frequency propagating waves of neuronal activity during movement.
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Upcoming body movement can be predicted by high-frequency brain wave patte
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, PhD, has long been fascinated by space. Specifically, the physical space occupied by the brain.
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Researchers find ketamine can increase brain noise
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of researchers has found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain's background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals and disrupting their transmission between the thalamus and the cortex.
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