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Study gives new insights into understanding of autism
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The study revealed that sensory signals from the outside world are integrated differently in Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most prevalent cause of autism, resulting in them being underrepresented by cortical pyramidal neurons in the brain.
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Researchers find ketamine can increase brain noise
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Do you know brain gathers threat cues and turns them into fear? Study reve
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): Salk Institute researchers have found that a biochemical pathway that combines potentially dangerous sights, sounds, and odours into a single message: Be afraid. CGRP is a protein that permits neurons in two distinct sections of the brain to combine dangerou
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Study examines role of communication defects in psychotic disorders
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 7 (ANI): Communication between brain areas is essential for the brain to properly process sensory signals and adopt an appropriate behavioural response. Dysfunctions in these communication pathways have a lot of chances to be correlated with the onset of schizophr
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