• Technology does not yet allow us to trace every instance of individual neurons speaking to each other, but it is possible to untangle the connections between regions, which reveals how the brain processes information. (wtkr.com)
  • A tiny microscope opened a window into the animals' brains, enabling the scientists to observe neurons firing and creating new memories. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The mouse brain is composed of about 75 million nerve cells or neurons, which are wired together in complex networks that underlie sophisticated behaviors. (noozhawk.com)
  • The researchers used large-scale calcium imaging to measure the responses of individual neurons in multiple areas of the brain while mice performed a delayed response task. (noozhawk.com)
  • As expected, we found many neurons that responded only during the visual stimulus or the licking action, but we also found a lot of neurons that responded during other parts of the task," said Goard, an assistant professor in UCSB's Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. (noozhawk.com)
  • Based on the neural activity in the different brain areas, Goard and his team then used optogenetics - a method of manipulating the nerve cells with light - to inactivate neurons in a temporally precise manner to identify those that function during different parts of the task. (noozhawk.com)
  • Oct. 6, 2021 It takes billions of cells to make a human brain, and scientists have long struggled to map this complex network of neurons. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Neurons in the brains of birds are more energy efficient than in mammalian brains. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • I do mostly recordings of single neurons," says Taube, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College. (today.com)
  • Then, the region-of-interest (ROI) of the atlas image is matched manually with the obtained image, and the number of labeled neurons in the ROI is counted. (medicalxpress.com)
  • To address these issues, a KAIST research team led by Professor Se-Bum Paik from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering developed new brain imaging data analysis software named 'AMaSiNe (Automated 3-D Mapping of Single Neurons)', and introduced the algorithm in the May 26 issue of Cell Reports. (medicalxpress.com)
  • AMaSiNe automatically detects the positions of single neurons from multiple brain images, and accurately maps all the data onto a common standard 3-D reference space. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The two co-lead authors of this study, Jun Ho Song and Woochul Choi, exploited these benefits of AMaSiNe to investigate the topographic organization of neurons that project to the primary visual area (VISp) in various ROIs, such as the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGd), which could hardly be addressed without proper calibration and standardization of the brain slice image samples. (medicalxpress.com)
  • To get a more detailed view of how the mammalian brain is wired, the researchers studied connections between specific classes of neurons covering two major parts of the brain, the cortex and thalamus. (alleninstitute.org)
  • The mouse brain has approximately 85 million neurons that make roughly 100 billion connections, or synapses. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Neurons that either ramp up or dampen overall brain activity also have preferred spots, with their numbers changing between cortical regions and depth. (singularityhub.com)
  • The cortex is an elaborate six-layered structure packed with different types of neurons and other brain cells. (singularityhub.com)
  • At birth the brain is estimated to contain over a 100 billion neurons. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according to researchers who report the finding in the March 22 edition of the journal Neuron . (ucsf.edu)
  • A team of IBM scientists used 410 anatomical tracing studies of the macaque brain to create what is possibly the most complete and complex map of the primate organ. (medgadget.com)
  • The team, studying macaque brains, provided a deeper understanding of how our brain differentiates between internally and externally stimulated thoughts and emotions. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The team has mapped neurotransmitter receptors in macaque brains, a breakthrough that could help us understand how the brain differentiates between internal and external stimuli. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • An international team of researchers, studying macaque brains, have mapped out neurotransmitter receptors, revealing a potential role in distinguishing internal thoughts and emotions from those generated by external influences. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The macaque cerebral cortex is like ours, and this study offers the most complete map of its kind. (singularityhub.com)
  • The team analyzed brains from three adult male macaque monkeys. (singularityhub.com)
  • In naming structures in the macaque monkey brain, the atlas follows what is established English usage and as far as possible is consistent with the terminology applied in other mammalian species. (brainmaps.org)
  • It's not quite Google Maps, but the new optic still provides the most detailed understanding of the cerebral cortex to date, based on the freshest data from the latest technologies. (wtkr.com)
  • Next, instead of focusing on just one biological property of the brain - architecture, function, connectivity or topography - the researchers combined all four criteria to draw border lines around each "country" within the cortex. (wtkr.com)
  • The cerebral cortex is an outer layer of brain tissue. (wtkr.com)
  • Naturally, creating an accurate map of the cortex has been the holy grail for many a neuroscientist. (wtkr.com)
  • Each has a unique microstructural architecture (including thickness of the cortex), plus a unique pattern of activity and connectivity with other brain areas. (wtkr.com)
  • The IT cortex in humans is also known as the Inferior Temporal Gyrus since it has been located to a specific region of the human temporal lobe. (wikipedia.org)
  • This human inferior temporal cortex is much more complex than that of other primates: non-human primates have an inferior temporal cortex that is not divided into unique regions such as humans' inferior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, or middle temporal gyrus. (wikipedia.org)
  • This region of the brain corresponds to the inferior temporal cortex and is responsible for visual object recognition and receives processed visual information. (wikipedia.org)
  • The inferior temporal cortex in primates has specific regions dedicated to processing different visual stimuli processed and organized by the different layers of the striate cortex and extra-striate cortex. (wikipedia.org)
  • The information from the V1 -V5 regions of the geniculate and tectopulvinar pathways are radiated to the IT cortex via the ventral stream: visual information specifically related to the color and form of the visual stimuli. (wikipedia.org)
  • From there the information is sent to the primary visual cortex, region V1. (wikipedia.org)
  • First, prefrontal cortex contains a disproportionate share of topologically central regions. (medgadget.com)
  • Unconscious formation of free intentions: functional dissociation of different regions in prefrontal cortex. (mpg.de)
  • Creating openly-accessible maps of receptor expression across the cortex that integrate neuroimaging data could speed up translation across species. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • MicrocircuitDB: Motor cortex microcircuit simulation based on brain activity mapping (Chadderdon et al. (yale.edu)
  • Motor cortex microcircuit simulation based on brain activity mapping (Chadderdon et al. (yale.edu)
  • The publicly available dataset resulting from approximately a thousand new experiments represents the most detailed map of connections in a mammalian brain to date, tracing neural wiring within and between the thalamus and cortex, the outermost shell of the mammalian brain that is responsible for higher level functions like memory, decision making, and understanding the world around us. (alleninstitute.org)
  • The outermost layer of the brain, the cortex houses many of our treasured cognitive functions: the ability to reason, make decisions, and adapt to ever-changing environments on the fly. (singularityhub.com)
  • Then, thanks to a hefty dose of AI, they categorized nearly 1.5 million cells from 143 regions into distinct cell types and mapped their location in the cortex. (singularityhub.com)
  • Also, when compared to a mouse brain atlas, the new map found several cell types specific to primates huddled together in one layer of the cortex. (singularityhub.com)
  • A standard questionnaire on childhood trauma was used to assess the women's early-childhood experiences, and their brains were scanned to measure the thickness of various regions of the cortex. (time.com)
  • There are some studies suggesting that thinning of the cortex [in these regions] would be associated with a lowered pain threshold, so you would more easily perceive pain instead of touch from that area," says Pruessner. (time.com)
  • The delineation of areas of the cerebral cortex derives from many sources that deal with the various regions of the cortex, including: Amaral et al. (brainmaps.org)
  • In vivo vMSOT brain imaging of P301L mice showed higher retention of PBB5 in the tau-laden cortex and hippocampus compared to wild-type mice, as confirmed by ex vivo vMSOT, epi-fluorescence, multiphoton microscopy, and immunofluorescence staining. (springer.com)
  • fMRI identifies the right inferior frontal cortex as the brain region where time interval processing is altered by negative emotional arousal. (bvsalud.org)
  • Consider the neocortex, the so-called CPU of the brain: Scientists assumed for decades that most cortical circuits were essentially the same--the brain was supposed to rely on a standard set of microchips, like a typical supercomputer. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Scientists at the institute are just starting to grapple with the seemingly infinite regress of the brain, in which every new level of detail reveals yet another level. (scienceblogs.com)
  • A team of electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Peking University scientists, has developed the thinnest memory storage device with dense memory capacity, paving the way for faster, smaller and smarter computer chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Receptor patterns define key organizational principles in the brain, scientists have discovered. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Scientists have long known that injuries to certain parts of the brain could compromise patients' abilities to orient themselves and navigate around the world, but what was novel about DTD was its appearance very early in the life of a child who had no injuries. (today.com)
  • Scientists do know something about how the brain collects mapping information when everything is working correctly. (today.com)
  • Before then, scientists who wanted to learn about brain function had few options: They could wait for a patient with a brain injury to come along and test her mental abilities. (vox.com)
  • The arrival of fMRI meant that a great many more scientists could study the brain. (vox.com)
  • Finally, scientists thought they could peer into the brain and find the cause of autism. (vox.com)
  • Scientists can see areas smaller than a millimeter cubed (also called a voxel, which just means it's a pixel in three dimensions) That blood flow is a sign that neural activity is happening in a given brain region. (vox.com)
  • With fMRI, scientists began to chart an atlas of the brain and its function. (vox.com)
  • The scientists mapped brain connectedness in 12 healthy people. (ucsf.edu)
  • For each dementia, we looked at four ideas that scientists often bring up to explain how dementia might target brain networks," Seeley said. (ucsf.edu)
  • Neuroscientists have published findings which reveal that the motor region for the hand connects to the entire body. (news-medical.net)
  • Neuroscientists around the world can now download these extremely accurate anatomical templates and use them to map other data -- such as which parts of the brain are metabolically active and where particular genes are expressed -- and for making quantitative anatomical comparisons with other, genetically engineered mouse strains. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Neuroscientists around the world can now download these extremely accurate anatomical templates and use them to map other data -- such as which parts of the brain are metabolically active and where particular genes are expressed -- and for making quantitative anatomical comparisons with other, genetically engineered mouse strains," said project leader Helene Benveniste, who is a researcher in Brookhaven's medical department and a professor of anesthesiology at Stony Brook University. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Neuroscientists mapped the human brain on 10 mind-altering drugs. (popsci.com)
  • It is being made freely available to the neuroscientific community via the Human Brain Project's EBRAINS infrastructure, so that they can be used by other computational neuroscientists aiming to create other biologically informed models," added Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, HBP researcher at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and senior author of the paper. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Data from 1,200 brain scans performed as part of the Human Connectome Project allowed researchers to unveil the brain's hidden geography. (lifeboat.com)
  • The useful information for most researchers, however, is what do expression patterns look like in different brain regions. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just launched a web-based 3-D digital atlas browser and database of the brain of a popular laboratory mouse. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just launched a web-based 3-D digital atlas browser and database of the brain of a popular laboratory mouse (see http://www.bnl.gov/CTN/mouse/ ). (sciencedaily.com)
  • Oct. 15, 2021 Researchers have created an atlas of metabolites in the mouse brain. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It's difficult for researchers to track the immense number of connections that these chemical messengers make- Google recently created one of the most detailed maps of neuronal connectivity patterns, but even the tech giant could only focus on a small section of the brain. (popsci.com)
  • Researchers unveiled key organizational principles in the brain, thanks to an intricate mapping of neurotransmitter receptors. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Potentially in the future, other researchers may use these maps to target particular brain networks and functions with new medicines. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The global team of researchers are from University of Bristol, New York University, Human Brain Project, Research Center Julich, University of Dusseldorf, Child Mind Institute and Universite Paris Cite. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Researchers located specific brain regions responsive to changes in blood sugar levels. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Roseman, 64, suffers from developmental topographical disorientation, or DTD, a disorder that had flown under brain researchers' radar until very recently. (today.com)
  • KAIST researchers developed a new algorithm for brain imaging data analysis that enables the precise and quantitative mapping of complex neural circuits onto a standardized 3-D reference atlas. (medicalxpress.com)
  • In their quest to map the millions of neural highways and connections in the brain, researchers at the Allen Institute have made a significant step forward, unveiling a new high-resolution view of the wiring diagram of the mouse brain. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Their study , which was published today in the journal Nature, traced thousands of connections between brain areas and lays the groundwork for researchers to better understand how brain circuitry might go awry in diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Sifting through the data, the researchers uncovered an underlying "org chart" of wiring among the different areas comprising these two structures, showing a defined order to the connections that are the underpinnings of what makes our brains tick. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Nobody has yet mapped a complete synapse-by-synapse connectome of a mammalian brain, but capturing the connections made by different classes of cells allowed the researchers to uncover new information about how the wiring diagram is organized. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Researchers have found brain activity in dead fish. (vox.com)
  • In what appears to be the earliest biomarker for autism, researchers at the University of Washington and other study sites found differences in brain "wiring" of children just 6 months old. (mbfbioscience.com)
  • In the current study, the researchers modeled not only the normal nerve network that can be affected by Alzheimer's disease, but also those networks affected by frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and related disorders, a class of degenerative brain diseases identified by their devastating impact on social behaviors or language skills. (ucsf.edu)
  • But predictions from the "trans-neuronal spread" mechanism model best fit the network connectivity maps constructed by the researchers. (ucsf.edu)
  • Researchers can also use the framework for other species, and they can even incorporate new data-crunching processors into the workflow , such as mapping brain regions using artificial intelligence. (dictionary.com)
  • Cells in a specific area of the brain thought to be important for inhibitory control appear biologically older in individuals with cocaine use disorder (CUD), suggesting that the cells may age faster when exposed to cocaine, researchers report. (medscape.com)
  • After correcting for differences in age, time since death, brain pH, and other conditions such as depressive disorder and alcohol use disorder, the researchers observed that cells in BA9 appeared biologically older in the men who had CUD. (medscape.com)
  • They've also discovered a way to restore this brain function in middle-aged mice - and an FDA-approved drug already exists that achieves the same thing. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Boosting CCR5 gene expression in the brains of middle-aged mice interfered with memory linking. (scitechdaily.com)
  • His lab discovered that maraviroc also suppressed CCR5 in the brains of mice. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In a new paper, published in the journal eLife, Goard and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology make progress in mapping brain activity in mice during simple but fundamental cognitive tasks. (noozhawk.com)
  • While the mice performed the task, the investigators recorded neural activity from multiple brain regions thought to be involved - including visual, parietal and frontal motor cortices. (noozhawk.com)
  • The new brain atlas database consists of 3-D anatomical data from 10 adult male mice of the strain C57BL/6J, and contains data on 20 segmented structures, including variability of brain structures across the strain, and downloadable visualization tools. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We demonstrated non-invasive whole-brain imaging of tau in P301L mice with vMSOT system using PBB5 at a previously unachieved ~ 115 μm spatial resolution. (springer.com)
  • The medial and ventral view of the brain - meaning looking at the medial surface from below the brain, facing upwards - reveals that the inferior temporal gyrus is separated from the fusiform gyrus by the occipital-temporal sulcus. (wikipedia.org)
  • FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences. (mpg.de)
  • Brain responses related to prosodic information in natural speech: An event-related fMRI study. (mpg.de)
  • Using fMRI scans, the study authors can examine brains in their normal states and under the effects of mind-altering drugs. (popsci.com)
  • According to the authors, this is the largest fMRI study to date that has plotted a detailed map of the neurotransmitter landscape when under the influence. (popsci.com)
  • The fMRI data helps our doctors create surgical plans to avoid areas of the brain that control critical functions such as moving and talking. (uclahealth.org)
  • This technique uses images from fMRI, DTS, MRS and PET to create a 3D map of the brain for use during surgery. (uclahealth.org)
  • With fMRI, suddenly you could study the brain of a healthy person," says Saxe. (vox.com)
  • The fMRI then follows oxygenated blood as it flows through the brain. (vox.com)
  • A new 21st Century map of the human brain contains 180 distinct areas in each hemisphere, including 97 previously undiscovered territories, research published Wednesday in the journal Nature revealed. (wtkr.com)
  • The brain might look homogenous to the naked eye, but it's actually filled with an array of cell types, each of which expresses a distinct set of genes depending on its precise location. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Until recently, this small fold of tissue in the middle of the brain was depicted as neatly divided into four distinct areas. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Childhood emotional and sexual abuse mark women's brains in distinct patterns - with emotional abuse affecting regions involved in self-awareness and sexual abuse affecting areas involved in genital sensation, according to new research. (time.com)
  • Astrocytomas are a form of glioma (ie, a neoplasm of the glial cells, which constitute the supportive tissue of the brain and nervous system). (medscape.com)
  • A slow-growing tumor that forms in the meninges, the layer of tissue that covers the brain and spine. (uclahealth.org)
  • PBB5 showed specific binding to recombinant K18 tau fibrils by fluorescence assay, to post-mortem Alzheimer's disease brain tissue homogenate by competitive binding against [ 11 C]PBB3 and to tau deposits (AT-8 positive) in post-mortem corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy brains. (springer.com)
  • Bilateral tissue of the same brain region from each rat was immediately transferred into 350 ul Buffer RLT (containing beta-mercaptoethanol) and placed on dry ice. (nih.gov)
  • In a novel study of postmortem brain tissue, "we detected a trend towards stronger biological aging of the brain in individuals with cocaine use disorder compared to individuals without cocaine use disorder," lead investigator Stephanie Witt, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, said in a news release. (medscape.com)
  • Witt and colleagues assessed epigenome-wide DNA methylation signatures of CUD in human postmortem brain tissue of Brodmann area 9 (BA9) in 42 deceased males. (medscape.com)
  • In this project, involving engineers from LTH, we apply advanced microfluidic techniques to culture hESCs under the influence of chemical gradients to mimic the environment around the developing brain in the fetus, thereby generating neural tissue with anatomical characteristics resembling the developing human brain. (lu.se)
  • This feature-based quantitative image-to-image comparison technology improves the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of analysis results using only a small number of brain slice image samples, and helps standardize brain imaging data analyses. (medicalxpress.com)
  • We therefore obtained genotypes and RNA-Seq gene expression for five brain regions from 88 HS rats and mapped expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) for each region. (nih.gov)
  • MRI sequences such as diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps and spectroscopic studies have improved quantitative analysis and provided potential for correlating image findings with medulloblastoma molecular subtypes. (medscape.com)
  • The team has acquired, analyzed, and freely shared a vast amount of high-quality anatomical connectivity data, thereby providing the most extensive 'meso-connectome' description to date for the wiring of any mammalian brain. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Despite the significance of understanding their contributions to defensive reactions, there is a paucity of human studies that directly compared these regions on activity and connectivity during threat processing. (jneurosci.org)
  • While it may take decades until someone fully maps out the human brain, there are ways to trace different aspects of connectivity. (popsci.com)
  • This allowed them to uncover the relationships between receptor patterns, brain connectivity, and anatomy. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Understanding the connectivity of the brain is fundamental for understanding how the brain works. (alleninstitute.org)
  • The study describes a high-resolution expansion of the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas , a publicly available resource that captures the brain-wide wiring diagram of the mouse, its "connectome," at a medium (or mesoscale) level of resolution. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Julie Harris , Ph.D., Associate Director of Neuroanatomy at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, who led the connectivity study, is now leading an effort exploring a similar map of connections in a mouse model of Alzheimer's to better understand how the wiring diagram - and its underlying organization - might change in this prevalent form of dementia. (alleninstitute.org)
  • The brain of a child who is raped, for example, may react by reducing the connectivity of the regions that were hurt. (time.com)
  • In both emotional and sexual abuse, a decrease in connectivity of regions that are overwhelmed by maltreatment may be interpreted as a self-protective response. (time.com)
  • The translating brain: Cerebral activation patterns during simultaneous interpreting. (crossref.org)
  • Pretty cool, though things are even more complicated by the fact that those expression patterns probably change quite a bit with changes in brain state. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Put in your favorite gene (such as crh) and it will show you expression patterns throughout the brain. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Importantly, within the cortical regions that were active for both complex movements, MVPA could accurately classify different patterns of activation for the sequential rhythm and sequential order tasks. (frontiersin.org)
  • To cope with overwhelming experiences of distress, the brain can alter patterns of signaling from the pathways involved, which can ultimately leave those regions underdeveloped from reduced input. (time.com)
  • Although their underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in the patterns of progressive brain alterations across and within these diseases. (lu.se)
  • Using patterns of DNA methylation as a measure of the biological age of cells, a total of 20 differentially methylated regions were significantly associated with CUD status after multiple testing correction. (medscape.com)
  • Most of the new areas are in regions we associate with higher cognitive function," he said. (wtkr.com)
  • The newly identified areas mainly reside in regions of higher cognitive function, Van Essen explained. (wtkr.com)
  • Processing demands upon cognitive, linguistic, and articulatory functions promote grey matter plasticity in the adult multilingual brain: Insights from simultaneous interpreters. (crossref.org)
  • Cognitive factors shape brain networks for auditory skills: Spotlight on auditory working memory. (crossref.org)
  • The plasticity of the brain is the basis of cognitive modifiability, which is highly dependent on the amount and quality of interactions with the human environment-ecology-of the individual. (encyclopedia.com)
  • They could also help identify new treatment options for certain conditions and diseases, as the authors found that brain regions commonly altered by different drugs were often similarly affected by various neurological disorders. (popsci.com)
  • Alterations in brain connections have been seen in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and several other brain diseases and disorders. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Neurosurgery or neurological surgery , known in common parlance as brain surgery , is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain , spinal cord and peripheral nervous system . (wikipedia.org)
  • These results will be informative when designing longitudinal research to map progressive brain changes in HD and other degenerative disorders. (bmj.com)
  • This report presents the latest key information on resources for the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region based on the responses of the countries to the questionnaire. (who.int)
  • Current estimates show that the burden attributable to drug use disorders in the Region is high. (who.int)
  • ABSTRACT Investment in research on the prevention and treatment of mental health disorders is disproportionately low in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) relative to the disease burden. (who.int)
  • The Allen Brain Atlas just launched their first set of gene expression maps in the adult human brain, based on microarray data from over 700 different anatomical locations. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Since these traits are in part mediated by gene expression, mapping the associations between genotype and gene expression in these animals will enable the discovery and deeper understanding of these trait associations. (nih.gov)
  • As DNA methylation is an important regulatory mechanism for gene expression, the identified DNA methylation alterations might contribute to functional changes in the human brain and thereby to the associated behavioral aspects of addiction," first author Eric Poisel, a PhD student at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, said in the release. (medscape.com)
  • Establishing how the brain produces consciousness is one of the most challenging research questions in the field of neuroscience. (news-medical.net)
  • New research suggests that an electroencephalogram (EEG) could be a strong indicator of the level of awareness of patients in a vegetative state after a severe brain injury. (news-medical.net)
  • A functional brain imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising tool for determining which severely brain damaged individuals in vegetative states have the potential to recover consciousness, according to new research published in The Lancet. (news-medical.net)
  • A variety of brain-imaging techniques including magnetic resonance imaging are a direct outgrowth of DOE's support of basic physics research. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This perisaccadic compression of visual space has been the subject of much research, but few studies have attempted to relate it to specific brain mechanisms. (jneurosci.org)
  • In recent years, brain research has been focused on been studying its roads, but in this research, we've made the most detailed map yet of the traffic lights - the neurotransmitter receptors - that control information flow. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Moreover, because receptors are the targets of medicines, the research could, in the future, guide the development of new treatments targeting specific brain functions. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent," according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary's Research Centre for Psychology and University of Cambridge colleague, Jeremy Niven. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control -- for example they need to move bigger muscles and therefore need more and bigger nerves to move them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast Thinking Slow based on the research he did with Amos Tversky into how the human brain works, for which Kahneman win the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics, is hard to read. (infoq.com)
  • Recognized as a top 10 hospital for brain cancer care, the UCLA Health Brain Tumor Center offers the most medically advanced treatments and leading-edge research. (uclahealth.org)
  • The National Cancer Institute designated the JCCC and the UCLA Health Brain Tumor Center as one of only six Brain Cancer Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) nationwide. (uclahealth.org)
  • We offer our patients the opportunity to take part in the latest clinical trials for brain tumor research. (uclahealth.org)
  • For example, in the research team's previous study jointly conducted with Professor Yang Dan's group at UC Berkeley, the algorithm enabled the accurate analysis of the neuronal subsets in the substantia nigra and their projections to the whole brain. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The research , which was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry , imaged the brains of 51 women in Atlanta who were taking part in a larger project on the effects of early trauma. (time.com)
  • And my luck was that I entered brain research at the time, in the late 1960s, when modern neuroscience was born, and in the labora- tory where a new groundbreaking microscopic technique, the Falck-Hillarp monoamine histofluorescence method, had just been developed. (lu.se)
  • Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) coordinated a feasibility study in 1998 and 1999, which concluded that an international study of the relationship between mobile phone use and brain tumour risk would be feasible and informative. (who.int)
  • The elaborate and complicated networks in the brain, their different pathways and subsystems, process everything we see, our movements, memories and feelings," said Hongkui Zeng , Ph.D., Executive Director of Structured Science at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, and senior author of the study. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Our lab has a long-standing interest in studying the pathways controlling regionalisation and specification of the human developing brain. (lu.se)
  • They are characterized by their tendency to seed along the neuraxis, following cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways, and they represent one of the few brain tumors, including ependymoma , pinealoblastoma, and lymphoma , to metastasize to extraneural tissues. (medscape.com)
  • We identified cis-eQTLs in over 3,000 genes per brain region and validated their effect sizes using allele specific expression. (nih.gov)
  • The signs and symptoms of 1p36 deletion syndrome are probably related to the loss of multiple genes in this region. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This work involves analysis of fetal brain anatomy, and identification of key genes and noncoding RNAs controlling the compartmentalisation of the brain. (lu.se)
  • Through the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), we can mimic brain development towards different regions of the human brain, and thereby investigate the effect of novel genes on neural differentiation. (lu.se)
  • He added the idea of a complete cortical map has been thought about "as far back as I can remember. (wtkr.com)
  • Specifically, we propose that perisaccadic compression is determined by the distance between the probe and saccade end point on a map that has a logarithmic representation of visual space, similar to those found in numerous cortical and subcortical visual structures. (jneurosci.org)
  • There was also extensive overlap between sequential rhythm and sequential order tasks, with both tasks commonly activating bilateral premotor, supplementary motor, and superior/inferior parietal cortical regions, as well as regions of the caudate/putamen of the basal ganglia and the ventro-lateral thalamus. (frontiersin.org)
  • Cortical thickness is linked to brain development, with thicker regions generally suggesting healthier growth. (time.com)
  • Some of the women showed cortical thinning in regions associated with the face and mouth, which could result from abuse to those areas. (time.com)
  • This happens on the level of micro-anatomy (brain synapses), of functional networks, on the brain as a whole and on the level of the individual and even beyond individuals. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Functional MR (fMR) imaging of word generation has been used to map Broca's area in some patients selected for craniotomy. (ajnr.org)
  • fMR imaging with word-generation tasks produces technically satisfactory maps of Broca's area, which localize the area accurately and reliably. (ajnr.org)
  • We retrospectively reviewed 34 patients with cerebral lesions who were referred for fMR imaging language mapping between January 1999 and July 2000. (ajnr.org)
  • Ischemia also directly results in dysfunction of the cerebral vasculature, with breakdown of the blood-brain barrier occurring within 4-6 hours after infarction. (medscape.com)
  • The new map "is a major revision and updating" of previous maps" said David Van Essen, senior author of the study. (wtkr.com)
  • Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. (mit.edu)
  • Sequential effects of propofol on functional brain activation induced by auditory language processing: An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. (mpg.de)
  • Lateralization of emotional prosody in the brain: An overview and synopsis on the impact of study design. (mpg.de)
  • According to the study authors, their mapping provides new opportunities to explore how each of these mind-altering drugs affects the neurotransmitter landscape. (popsci.com)
  • This is another landmark, tour-de-force study from the Allen Institute for Brain Science that addresses fundamental issues of brain organization in the mouse," said David Van Essen , Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a scientific advisor to the Allen Institute for Brain Science. (alleninstitute.org)
  • The study, published in Cell , also tapped into a relatively new tool for brain mapping. (singularityhub.com)
  • The cell composition of the brain and its spatial distribution are the basic issues of brain science, and its importance is similar to the DNA base sequence discovered by human genome sequencing," said study author Dr. Chengyu Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (singularityhub.com)
  • The new study mainly focused on these brain cells. (singularityhub.com)
  • If replicated, these data provide compelling evidence about the enduring structural effects on the brain as a function of early life experience," Dr. Maria Oquendo, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, and her colleagues wrote in an editorial accompanying the study. (time.com)
  • This study didn't follow the women from childhood, so it can't prove that the abuse caused the changes in these regions. (time.com)
  • A study conducted on rappers during spontaneous improvisation maps what happens in the brain during the initial creative 'flow' state. (medium.com)
  • The study debunks the theory that suggests that creativity is confined to the right side of the brain, and confirms that multiple regions are harnessed during creative improvisation. (medium.com)
  • In this study, the comprehensive N-glycome and N-glycoproteome of the brain were determined in 11 functional brain regions, some of them known to be affected with the progression of Alzheimer's disease . (bvsalud.org)
  • Conclusions: An outcome of our study is the production of a rat volumetric atlas with brain region coordinates that can be used as a template by others. (cdc.gov)
  • This study provided important proof-of-principle that direct neural conversion of endogenous glia can take place in the adult rodent brain. (lu.se)
  • In all study regions except Paris and Tokyo, it was believed that 90 to 95% of the cases were diagnosed or treated in the collaborating units in the study areas. (who.int)
  • Eligible cases were all residents of the study region diagnosed during the study period with a confirmed primary glioma, meningioma, or acoustic neuroma. (who.int)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Alzheimer's Association have created the Healthy Brain Initiative's (HBI) Road Map for Indian Country . (cdc.gov)
  • Alzheimer's disease may be driven by excessive fructose metabolism in the brain. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Abnormal tau accumulation within the brain plays an important role in tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. (springer.com)
  • Regio-Specific N-Glycome and N-Glycoproteome Map of the Elderly Human Brain With and Without Alzheimer's Disease. (bvsalud.org)
  • This is a key reason the map is more precise than previous versions - the team began with finer-grain detail than available in the past, including brain images collected from 210 healthy young adult participants in the NIH project. (wtkr.com)
  • However, capturing early tau deposits in vivo is needed for a better understanding of the link with other pathological alterations in deep brain regions. (springer.com)
  • As an alternative view, we also discuss complementary work suggesting that network alterations actively modulate the spreading of pathological proteins between connected brain regions. (lu.se)
  • CUD is characterized by a loss of control over cocaine use and is associated with structural, functional, and molecular alterations in the human brain. (medscape.com)
  • A little quirk in her brain makes it impossible to recognize landmarks and find her way around neighborhoods that should have become familiar long ago. (today.com)
  • Scientist have long thought this evolutionary quirk is what gives our brains the ability to manage complex computations. (singularityhub.com)
  • By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, Bess-Lyn was officially counted among the 1.5 million Americans who will suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) this year. (lifeboat.com)
  • The axial diffusion-weighted image (middle) demonstrates high signal in the same area with corresponding low signal on the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, consistent with true restricted diffusion and an acute infarction. (medscape.com)
  • The findings not only promise to enhance our understanding of normal brain functionality but could also guide the development of new treatments targeting specific brain functions. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • We also plan to better integrate findings across species-linking detailed circuit-level neuroscience often conducted in rodents, to large-scale brain activity seen in humans. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • It's easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan studies. (vox.com)
  • We review findings supporting brain networks as passive conduits through which pathological proteins spread. (lu.se)
  • The inferior temporal gyrus is the anterior region of the temporal lobe located underneath the central temporal sulcus. (wikipedia.org)
  • When looking at the brain laterally - that is from the side and looking at the surface of the temporal lobe - the inferior temporal gyrus is along the bottom portion of the temporal lobe, and is separated from the middle temporal gyrus located directly above by the inferior temporal sulcus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Information on resources available in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region was first published in 2012. (who.int)
  • Here, the authors identify a molecule produced by astrocytes which controls astrocyte morphology and their placement on brain blood vessels. (nature.com)
  • Morphology for regions of interest (ROIs) was identified on a single subject brain atlas using MRIStudio software. (cdc.gov)
  • I wrote about the construction of the human brain atlas last year in Wired, if you'd like to learn more about how the map was made. (scienceblogs.com)
  • But data from the atlas has rendered the old maps not only obsolete but flat-out misleading. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Over 13 years, the team, using detailed microscopic analysis, identified glucose-sensitive cell populations in the brain and meticulously charted their locations in an open-source brain atlas. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Conventional brain imaging data analysis typically begins with finding a 2-D brain atlas image that is visually similar to the experimentally obtained brain image. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Such a visual matching process between experimentally obtained brain images and 2-D brain atlas images has been one of the major sources of error in brain imaging data analysis, as the process is highly subjective, sample-specific, and susceptible to human error. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Professor Paik said, "Our new algorithm allows the spatial organization of complex neural circuits to be found in a standardized 3-D reference atlas on a whole-brain scale. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Currently, the high resolution images of coronal sections of the rhesus monkey brain and the lower resolution atlas made from the same sections are fully labeled using these abbreviations and labeling of the sagittal and horizontal series of sections is currently underway. (brainmaps.org)
  • Tensor-based atlas registration showed substantial variation in reliability between different WM regions, however, assessed across all regions, reliability was high for FA (ICC=0.98) and the trace of diffusivity (ICC=0.98). (bmj.com)
  • The atlas was registered to the subjects using Automated Image Registration (AIR) and Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM) in order to map the ROIs onto each subject. (cdc.gov)
  • All countries of the Region submitted the Atlas questionnaire. (who.int)
  • This region processes the color and form of the object in the visual field and is responsible for producing the "what" from this visual stimuli, or in other words identifying the object based on the color and form of the object and comparing that processed information to stored memories of objects to identify that object. (wikipedia.org)
  • During skilled action performance, the brain must determine both the sequential order and individual timing of each movement, requiring neural processes for temporal and ordinal aspects of complex movement to be highly integrated. (frontiersin.org)
  • Given the close coupling of temporal (including rhythm) and ordinal processes in the production of fine motor skills, the nature of how temporal and ordinal movement information is represented in the brain has been long debated. (frontiersin.org)
  • Manual analysis processes for brain images are also laborious, and thus studying the complete 3-D neuronal organization on a whole-brain scale is a formidable task. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Here, we discuss the state-of-the-art of neuroimaging-based connectomics for the mapping and prediction of neurodegenerative processes. (lu.se)
  • This could be caused by cocaine-related disease processes in the brain, such as inflammation or cell death," Witt added. (medscape.com)
  • Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians. (crossref.org)
  • Importantly, because our model can be characterized by a simple closed-form expression, it also makes specific predictions about the outcome of future psychophysical experiments and the characteristics of brain structures that might be involved in perceptual estimates of the metrics of visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • The results suggest that the precise correction of a slicing angle is essential for the investigation of complex and important brain structures. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Structural plasticity in the expert phonetician brain. (crossref.org)
  • In-vivo evidence of structural brain asymmetry in musicians. (crossref.org)
  • Neuroplasticity of sign language: Implications from structural and functional brain imaging. (mpg.de)
  • Although a mouse's brain is much smaller than a human's, remarkable structural similarities exist. (noozhawk.com)
  • Most have structural abnormalities of the brain, and seizures occur in more than half of individuals with this disorder. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Through genetic testing and innovative delivery methods, UCLA Health offers personalized chemotherapy plans for people with brain tumors. (uclahealth.org)
  • Unlike other existing brain imaging data analysis methods, AMaSiNe can also automatically find the alignment conditions from misaligned and distorted brain images, and draw an accurate ROI, without any cumbersome manual validation process. (medicalxpress.com)
  • AMaSiNe has been further proved to produce consistent results with brain slice images stained utilizing various methods including DAPI, Nissl, and autofluorescence. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Our next goal is to further develop methods to predict disease progression, using these models to create a template for how disease will progress in the brain of an affected individual," Seeley said. (ucsf.edu)
  • Recent advances in neuroimaging methods have revealed that pathological proteins accumulate along specific macroscale brain networks, implicating the network architecture of the brain in the system-level pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases. (lu.se)
  • We also work on more sophisticated 3D culturing methods to model human brain development on an anatomical level with hESCs. (lu.se)
  • The Road Map for Indian Country suggests eight public health strategies that embrace community strengths including traditional practices, resilience, and existing services. (cdc.gov)
  • Already this work suggests that if we know the wiring diagram in a healthy brain, we can predict where the disease is going to go next. (ucsf.edu)
  • Their comprehensive dataset, now publicly accessible, offers a unique perspective into the micro and macro workings of the brain. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Dr Froudist-Walsh added: "Next, we aim to use this dataset to develop computational models of the brain. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The original iteration of that dataset, first debuted in 2014 , captured connections between brain regions. (alleninstitute.org)
  • Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain. (mit.edu)
  • Invariant representations of mass in the human brain. (mit.edu)
  • One of the greatest challenges in this burgeoning field of engineering is how to make a memory architecture with 3-D connections akin to those found in the human brain. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. (mpg.de)
  • Reading hidden intentions in the human brain. (mpg.de)
  • To address these questions, Luppi and his coauthors analyzed two sets of neuroimaging data from past studies to map out the ways the human brain changes when taking 10 mind-altering drugs. (popsci.com)
  • In the brainstem primarily Olszewski and Baxter ( Cytoarchitecture of the Human Brain Stem , 1982) were followed, with additional names derived from Berman ( The Brain Stem of the Cat , 1968). (brainmaps.org)
  • Human Brain Mapping, 36 (3), 981-995. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, we show that the magnitude of perceptual compression for a wide variety of probe stimuli and saccade amplitudes is quantitatively predicted by a simple heuristic model based on the geometry of retinotopic representations in the primate brain. (jneurosci.org)
  • However, in the laboratory it becomes possible to induce highly inaccurate spatial percepts that may provide insights into the brain mechanisms that underlie the perception of visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • In this work, we suggest that perisaccadic compression is linked directly to the problem of recovering accurate spatial representations from distorted retinotopic maps. (jneurosci.org)
  • He continued, "More in-depth insights for understanding the function of brain circuits can be achieved by facilitating more reliable and standardized analysis of the spatial organization of neural circuits in various regions of the brain. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Temporal and spatial changes in brain volume were examined longitudinally in several brain regions, including the inferior colliculus (IC), following a single noise exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • Differences in brain size between animals is extreme: a whale's brain can weigh up to 9 kg (with over 200 billion nerve cells), and human brains vary between 1.25 kg and 1.45 kg (with an estimated 85 billion nerve cells). (sciencedaily.com)
  • While some increases in brain size do affect an animal's capability for intelligent behaviour, many size differences only exist in a specific brain region. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Major treatment centres for the diseases of interest are concentrated in these areas and most of the population is unlikely to go out of the region for diagnosis and treatment. (who.int)
  • Studies into neuronal plasticity were performed in the nineteenth century, when the French biologist Flourens concluded that it was impossible to localize brain functions (Kolb & Whishaw, 1989). (encyclopedia.com)
  • Second language experience modulates functional brain network for the native language production in bimodal bilinguals. (crossref.org)
  • build a morphological spectrum of over 40,000 microglia across development and disease with a topological data analysis approach that allows mapping of new conditions along these sex-region-specific and brain-region-specific atlases. (nature.com)
  • He strongly disagreed with his compatriot Broca, who believed that there are specific areas in the brain responsible for specific functions. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Somatosensory areas create a map of the body on the brain, with each region processing sensation from specific body parts. (time.com)
  • 1p36 deletion syndrome is caused by a deletion of genetic material from a specific region in the short (p) arm of chromosome 1 . (medlineplus.gov)
  • Further, we show that in each sample when going from shock anticipation to the moment of shock confrontation neural activity shifted from a region anatomically consistent with the BNST toward the amygdala. (jneurosci.org)
  • The changes in activity caused by mind-altering drugs are similar to the changes seen in the brains of patients with conditions such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, the authors say. (popsci.com)
  • Seeing an area of unusual thickness of myelin (insulation for nerve cells) or a hotspot of connection activity, they would align all the brains according to that feature. (wtkr.com)
  • A honeybee's brain weighs only 1 milligram and contains fewer than a million nerve cells. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Our leading experts treat more than 30 types of brain tumors. (uclahealth.org)
  • Benign brain tumors are noncancerous and don't spread to other tissues. (uclahealth.org)
  • Doctors can treat some brain tumors without surgery. (uclahealth.org)
  • MRI is performed for all patients with brain tumors and is key in the diagnosis, surgical guidance, and follow-up in patients with medulloblastomas. (medscape.com)
  • The first data set, based on the PET scans of 1,200 people, helped the team sketch out 19 types of molecules in the brain: all neurotransmitter receptors and transporters. (popsci.com)
  • When everything works right, our brain's cartographer constructs a map that allows us to find our way around places we've been without having to constantly check a paper map or ask for directions. (today.com)
  • Interphone was therefore initiated as an international set of case-control studies1 focussing on four types of tumours in tissues that most absorb RF energy emitted by mobile phones: tumours of the brain (glioma and meningioma), acoustic nerve (schwannoma) and parotid gland. (who.int)
  • In the "nodal stress" hypothesis, small regions within the brain that serve as hubs to carry heavy signaling traffic would undergo wear and tear that gives rise to or worsens disease. (ucsf.edu)
  • High-resolution imaging of tau deposits at the whole-brain scale in animal disease models is highly desired. (springer.com)
  • Brain scans have shown that everything seems to be in working order. (today.com)
  • The proteins in the cell membrane of the brain are modified by glycans in highly interactive regions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Glycoproteomic analysis identified the proteins that differed in glycosylation in the various regions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Following breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, proteins and water flood into the extracellular space, leading to vasogenic edema. (medscape.com)
  • Vasogenic edema produces greater levels of brain swelling and mass effect that peak at 3-5 days and resolves over the next several weeks with resorption of water and proteins. (medscape.com)
  • A brain─computer interface has enabled people with "locked-in" syndrome to communicate, according to trial results published in PLOS Biology. (news-medical.net)
  • Administering mind-altering drugs that rewire the connections in functionally impaired brain areas could be another treatment option for people who live with these conditions. (popsci.com)
  • Better glucose control can improve brain structure and function in young people with Type 1 diabetes. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • No one knows exactly what is going wrong in the brains of people with DTD. (today.com)
  • It is a popular notion that creativity is localized to the right side of the brain and that 'right-brained' people are 'just more creative. (medium.com)
  • it is involved with the processing and perception created by visual stimuli amplified in the V1, V2, V3, and V4 regions of the occipital lobe. (wikipedia.org)
  • A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for transforming sensation into movement. (noozhawk.com)
  • Mapping perception to a future action seems simple," said UCSB neuroscientist Michael Goard. (noozhawk.com)
  • The use of alcohol and other psychoac- lence of opioid use in the world, ranging was conducted in 2012 in order to tive substances alters brain functions, between 2% and 3% of the population map resources available in the Eastern such as mood, perception and con- aged 15-64 ( 4 ). (who.int)
  • Similarly, the team compared all 210 brains. (wtkr.com)
  • Similarly the brain, its most complicated organ, has this capacity, although it does not seem to be so "easy" to restore as other organs. (encyclopedia.com)
  • We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal's brain size," explains Chittka, writing in the journal Current Biology . (sciencedaily.com)
  • The new map identifies 180 areas for each hemisphere, including 97 new territories along with 83 previously known regions. (wtkr.com)
  • At the same time, other areas of the brain are reflexively using light-derived information to control other visual functions, such as programming biological clocks, controlling eye muscle movements as you read, and even influencing your mood. (vt.edu)
  • This test detects blood flow changes in areas of the brain activated by movement or speech. (uclahealth.org)
  • Map construction involves several areas of the brain, Taube explains. (today.com)
  • It's that the common statistical software they used is prone to wrongly guess the borders of "lit up" areas in the brain. (vox.com)
  • The Brodmann areas activated during performance of word-generation tasks were tabulated in 34 consecutive patients referred for fMR imaging mapping of language areas. (ajnr.org)
  • In patients who underwent craniotomy while awake, speech areas located with ECS coincided with areas of the brain activated during a word-generation task. (ajnr.org)
  • Brain cells communicate based on how they are wired together. (wtkr.com)
  • This will let him classify the very first cells to receive visual input in this brain region. (vt.edu)
  • The rat's - and probably people's - brain cells fire like a compass. (today.com)
  • Brain cells tend to act in cliques. (singularityhub.com)
  • With over six billion cells, their brains are evolutionarily close to ours. (singularityhub.com)
  • It is a miracle that the brain can function as a cooperative whole, starting off with only two cells (Eccles & Robinson, 1985). (encyclopedia.com)
  • Under this assumption, the psychophysical data on perisaccadic compression can be appreciated intuitively by imagining that, around the time of a saccade, the brain confounds nearby oculomotor and sensory signals while attempting to localize the position of objects in visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • Yet developing an actual map required more than gathering data. (wtkr.com)
  • Although these genetic maps are just a first draft - one researcher at the Allen Institute compared them to those 15th century sketches of the New World - the data has already taught us plenty of interesting things about the three pounds of flesh in our head. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Design of AMaSiNe to overcome the limits of conventional mouse brain imaging data analysis. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Brain imaging data analysis is indispensable in the studies of neuroscience. (medicalxpress.com)
  • However, analysis of obtained brain imaging data has been heavily dependent on manual processing, which cannot guarantee the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of the results. (medicalxpress.com)
  • This will bring brain imaging data analysis to a new level. (medicalxpress.com)
  • What came out of these data was a big mess of connections, and at first glance it looked like everything is connected to everything," said Harris, who is co-lead author on the Nature article along with Stefan Mihalas , Ph.D., Associate Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. (alleninstitute.org)
  • 0.5%) for the other countries of the countries, representing 92% of the Re- and psychological dependence, coerc- Region for which data are available. (who.int)
  • A new Royal Society report called "iHuman: blurring lines between mind and machine" is for the first time systematically exploring whether it is "right" or not to use neural interfaces - machines implanted in or worn over the body to pick up or stimulate nervous activity in the brain or other parts of the nervous system. (news-medical.net)
  • Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. (mpg.de)
  • By understanding the receptor organisation across the brain, it is hoped new studies can better link brain activity, behaviour, and the action of drugs. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • We developed a computational model based primarily on a unified set of brain activity mapping studies of mouse M1. (yale.edu)
  • By demonstrating the effectiveness of combined static and dynamic analysis, our results show how static brain maps can be related to the results of brain activity mapping. (yale.edu)