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Harmless fMRI provides the earliest peek into visual cortex of newborns

Within hours of birth, a baby's gaze is drawn to faces. Now, brain scans of newborns reveal the neurobiology underlying this behavior, showing that as young as six days old a baby's brain appears hardwired for the specialized tasks of seeing faces and seeing places.

2 Mar 2020

Study reveals the neural basis of sensory hypersensitivity in people with autism

Many people with autism spectrum disorders are highly sensitive to light, noise, and other sensory input. A new study in mice reveals a neural circuit that appears to underlie this hypersensitivity, offering a possible strategy for developing new treatments.

2 Mar 2020

Study shows non-existence of egg stem cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have analysed all cell types in the human ovary and found that the hotly debated so-called egg stem cells do not exist. The results, published in Nature Communications, open the way for research on improved methods of treating involuntary childlessness.

2 Mar 2020

Study provides new insight into the brain's remarkable ability to make decisions

When crossing the street, which way do you first turn your head to check for oncoming traffic? This decision depends on the context of where you are. A pedestrian in the United States looks to the left for cars, but one in the United Kingdom looks right.

28 Feb 2020

Using machine learning approach to unravel how the brain processes, stores visual information

Scientists from Salk Institute (USA), Skoltech (Russia), and Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their different expressions and how they are organized.

25 Feb 2020

Understanding how juvenile social isolation might shape long term behavioral outcomes

Mount Sinai Researchers find social isolation during key developmental windows drives long term changes to activity patterns of neurons involved in initiating social approach in an animal model.

22 Feb 2020

Mindfulness helps people to deal with physical pain and negative emotions

Merely a brief introduction to mindfulness helps people deal with physical pain and negative emotions, a new study by researchers at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth shows.

19 Feb 2020

Study uses machine learning to identify personalized brain networks in kids

Machine learning is helping Penn Medicine researchers identify the size and shape of brain networks in individual children, which may be useful for understanding psychiatric disorders.

19 Feb 2020

Persistent antisocial behavior linked to smaller brain size

Antisocial behavior is characterized by disruptive acts of intentional aggression that causes distress, alarm, or harassment toward others. People who exhibit antisocial behavior since they were children through adulthood are more likely to have smaller brains, a new study found.

18 Feb 2020

Breakthrough in artificial biomimetic sight

In a new study published in February 2020 in the journal Science Advances, researchers report the development of a nanoscale device that acts like the brain's visual cortex to directly see things in its path. The scientists created a new superstructure through the use of two nanomaterials in tandem that could help to make a machine that uses AI to simulate a human mind's function.

16 Feb 2020

Study suggests potential treatment to alleviate disorders of consciousness

A small amount of electricity delivered at a specific frequency to a particular point in the brain will snap a monkey out of even deep anesthesia, pointing to a circuit of brain activity key to consciousness and suggesting potential treatments for debilitating brain disorders.

16 Feb 2020

New method for real-time detection of neural oscillation bursts

Neural oscillations - also known as brainwaves - are important carriers of information in the brain. Researchers are increasingly coming to view them less as sustained oscillations and more as transient bursts.

14 Feb 2020

Researchers investigate how early life trauma contributes to functional neurological disorder

In individuals with functional neurological disorder, the brain generally appears structurally normal on clinical MRI scans but functions incorrectly (akin to a computer software crashing), resulting in patients experiencing symptoms including limb weakness, tremor, gait abnormalities and non-epileptic seizures.

13 Feb 2020

Study reveals new role for gene associated with autism spectrum disorder

A UCLA-led study reveals a new role for a gene that's associated with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability and language impairment.

12 Feb 2020

Nerve insulation renewed to create long-term learning

A new study published in February 2020, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that short-term learning occurs rapidly, but for it to become a long-term memory, brain cells must form more myelin, an insulating fatty material.

10 Feb 2020

Scientists measure how sensory stimuli are processed in the brain

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different senses and shift our attention from one sensory input to another - for example, from seeing to hearing.

10 Feb 2020

Migraine sufferers appear to have hyper-excitable visual cortex, study suggests

Individuals who suffer from migraine headaches appear to have a hyper-excitable visual cortex researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Lancaster suggest.

10 Feb 2020

Vibratory and auditory stimulation improves the amount, quality of sleep in insomnia patients

Many people find it easier to sleep in a car or a train because of the vibration and noise that helps "rock" them to sleep. But a more specific approach for using a vibratory and auditory stimulation program helps improve brain function and sleep amount and quality in patients with insomnia, according to a study published in the journal, Sleep Disorders.

9 Feb 2020

Researchers identify involvement of certain cortical areas in the loss of control over food intake

Researchers at UPF, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Mainz (Germany), the Center for Genomic Regulation, Instituto Cajal, Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany), the Autonomous University Barcelona and Hospital del Mar have identified for the first time the involvement of certain cortical areas in the brain in the loss of control over food intake.

9 Feb 2020

Defining neurogenic niche proteome helps identify key regulators of neurogenesis

In mammalian adult brains, neural stem cells are only present in few specific parts, so called niches. Only these niches are capable of generating new neurons.

7 Feb 2020

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Harmless fMRI provides the earliest peek into visual cortex of newborns

Study reveals the neural basis of sensory hypersensitivity in people with autism

Study shows non-existence of egg stem cells

Study provides new insight into the brain's remarkable ability to make decisions

Using machine learning approach to unravel how the brain processes, stores visual information

Understanding how juvenile social isolation might shape long term behavioral outcomes

Mindfulness helps people to deal with physical pain and negative emotions

Study uses machine learning to identify personalized brain networks in kids

Persistent antisocial behavior linked to smaller brain size

Breakthrough in artificial biomimetic sight

Study suggests potential treatment to alleviate disorders of consciousness

New method for real-time detection of neural oscillation bursts

Researchers investigate how early life trauma contributes to functional neurological disorder

Study reveals new role for gene associated with autism spectrum disorder

Nerve insulation renewed to create long-term learning

Scientists measure how sensory stimuli are processed in the brain

Migraine sufferers appear to have hyper-excitable visual cortex, study suggests

Vibratory and auditory stimulation improves the amount, quality of sleep in insomnia patients

Researchers identify involvement of certain cortical areas in the loss of control over food intake

Defining neurogenic niche proteome helps identify key regulators of neurogenesis

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Managing vibration in IVF laboratories

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