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How stress is fundamentally changing our memories, finds study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) revealed that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories, and they developed a potential new method for restoring adequate memory specificity in persons suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Study unearths new coding mechanism that transfers information from percep
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Neuroscientists have long been perplexed by how the brain encodes information pertaining to our memories which are rich in detail as we can vividly recall the colour of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favourite cafe
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Study discovers new link between fatal muscle wasting disease gene, cancer
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Mutations in the gene that encodes for dystrophins have been linked to the devastating muscle-wasting illness DMD, which affects one out of every 5,000 boys born. Individuals with the illness usually live only into their 20s or 30s.
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Study finds neurons responsible for encoding outcomes of actions
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [US], March 26 (ANI): A new study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that a group of neurons in the brain's striatum encodes information about the potential outcomes of different decisions.
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Sponges can tell us about evolution of brain: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 13 (ANI): The neurons in a brain communicate via synapses. These connections between cells lie at the heart of brain function and are regulated by several different genes. Sponges do not have these synapses, but their genome still encodes many of the synaptic genes
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Neuron activity encodes value of options and determines the final decision
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 4 (ANI): When you are faced with a choice -- say whether to have an ice cream or chocolate cake for dessert -- sets of brain cells just above your eyes fire as you weigh your options. Animal studies have shown that each option activates a distinct set of neurons in
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Scientists found mutations in gene causing obesity
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 24 (ANI): Scientists have found that the mutations in the gene that encodes a particular type of protein in brain is linked to severe childhood obesity as it controls the eating habits.
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How does brain process colour and shape?
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 26 (ANI): We are surrounded by so many colours and shapes that we can distinguish visually but have you ever wondered how our brain interprets them?
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Specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 09 (ANI): A new research conducted at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT finds that the protein CPG2 is significantly less abundant in the brains of people with bipolar disorder (BD). The study further finds how specific mutations in the SYNE1 gen
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Seven months old infant with rare immunodeficiency disorder saved by bone
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI-NewsVoir): Manipal Hospitals recently saved a seven months old boy from Maldives who had Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome by bone marrow transplantation. Wiskott-Aldrich is an X-linked disorder caused by mutations in the gene that encodes the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome p
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