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Study finds how brain cells navigate in light, dark
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 17 (ANI): Researchers have discovered how cells in an area of the brain called the retrosplenial cortex encode this angular head motion to enable navigation during day and night.
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Scientists discover new brain cells responsible for controlling movement
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 10 (ANI): A slew of new studies showed that the area of the brain responsible for initiating this action -- the primary motor cortex, which controls movement -- has as many as 116 different types of cells that work together to make this happen.
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Study shows how childhood exercise could maintain, promote cognitive funct
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 19 (ANI): An international research group has illuminated the changes in the brain's neural network and cortex structure that underlie the positive association between childhood exercise and the maintenance and promotion of cognitive function in later life.
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Researchers reveal where memories of familiar places are stored in brain
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 16 (ANI): A new study from Dartmouth College reveals that three regions of the brain in the posterior cerebral cortex, which the researchers call 'place-memory areas', form a link between the brain's perceptual and memory systems, which helps the brain to store in memori
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Damage to white matter linked to worse cognitive outcomes after brain inju
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 8 (ANI): A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that grey matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is more important than white matter (the myelin covered axons that physically connect neuronal regions) when it comes to cognitive health and function
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Study examines how memory is impacted by pain experienced in everyday life
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 7 (ANI): Researchers during a recent study have found that reduced working memory ability and increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex are linked to higher pain intensity in daily life.
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Here's how pain experienced in everyday life impacts memory
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study has found that higher pain intensity is linked to reductions in working memory ability and increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
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Study reveals how efficient brain circuitry develops spontaneously
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 19 (ANI): A KAIST team's mathematical modelling has revealed that efficient brain circuitry develops spontaneously by showing that the topographic tiling of cortical maps originates from bottom-up projections from the periphery.
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Researchers discover music-induced emotions can be predicted from brain sc
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Turku [Finland], January 3 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers discovered what type of neural mechanisms are the basis for emotional responses to music.
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Study reveals how brain knows when something is different
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists discovered how a particular set of high-frequency brain waves may help us know unconsciously if something is different by comparing memories of the past with present experiences.
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Researchers reveal how human brains know when something's different
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 14 (ANI): In a study involving epilepsy patients, National Institutes of Health has discovered how a set of high-frequency brain waves may help us spot these kinds of differences between the past and the present.
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Brain implants might soon help restore rudimentary vision for blind people
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], December 6 (ANI): Restoring vision for visually impaired people might soon be a reality with the help of brain implants, due to recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), which were published in the journal Science.
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