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Small intestine adapts its size based on nutritional intake: Study
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
One of the most striking examples of gut plasticity can be seen in animals that are subjected to prolonged periods of fasting, such as hibernating animals or phyton snakes that go months without eating, where the gut shrinks by up to 50 per cent but recovers in size after a few days of refee
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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, 5 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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Adult brain's plasticity is controlled by thalamus: Study
Updated : 2 years, 5 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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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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New brain developing sequence which spans through adolescence identified:
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers charted how developmental processes unfold across the human brain from the ages of 8 to 23 years old through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The findings indicate a new approach to understanding the order in which individual brain regions show reductions in plasticity during de
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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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How species adapt: Ancestral variation guides future environmental adaptat
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The speed of environmental change is very challenging for wild organisms. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust their biology to better cope with new pressures they are exposed to -- this is known as phenotypic plasticity.
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Study finds ancestral variation guides future environmental adaptations
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
For wild creatures, the rate of environmental change presents significant difficulties. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust their biology to better cope with new pressures they are exposed to - this is known as phenotypic plasticity.
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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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