Regulator of first responder cells to brain injury
Astrocytes are the most abundant cells in the brain, yet there is still much to learn about them. For instance,
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The future of mind control
Electrodes implanted in the brain help alleviate symptoms like the intrusive tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease. But current probes face
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Highest-resolution human brain ‘parts list’ to date lays road map to better treatments: Crucial differences discovered in human and mouse brain cells could explain why many drugs that work in the lab don’t work in us
A new study from the Allen Institute for Brain Science has written the most detailed “parts list” of the human
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How do brains remember decisions?
Mammal brains — including those of humans — store and recall impressive amounts of information based on our good and
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Researchers grow active mini-brain-networks
Cerebral organoids are artificially grown, 3D tissue cultures that resemble the human brain. Now, researchers from Japan report functional neural
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Sleep readies synapses for learning: Findings offer insight into changes that occur in the brain during sleep
Synapses in the hippocampus are larger and stronger after sleep deprivation, according to new research in mice published in JNeurosci.
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Obesity: The key role of a brain protein revealed: Researchers clarify the mechanism controlling food intake
Regardless of how much you exercise or how balanced your diet is, controlling your weight is more brain-related than you
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Train your brain, change your brain
Less than one hour of brain training with neurofeedback leads to a strengthening of neural connections and communication among brain
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A cellular protein as a ‘gas pump attendant’ of cancer development
The cells which make up our body vary significantly. A liver cell does not look like a muscle cell and
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Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem
New research explains how the shapes of neurons can be classified using mathematical methods from the field of algebraic topology.
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