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Oregon study details brain pathways linking visual function, running.
A new study by researchers at the University of Oregon published in the journal Neuron describes a brainstem circuit in mice that may help explain how active movement impacts the way the brain...
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Increased levels of the body’s own cannabinoids impair embryonic brain...
The human body produces substances, called endocannabinoids, that work in a similar way to cannabis. These endocannabinoids may not produce a ‘high’, but are of tremendous importance for the...
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Max Planck scientists image a beating heart in 3D.
Until recently, available microscopes were too slow to capture a beating heart in 3D. Now, a team from the Max Planck Institute has developed a high-speed, selective plane illumination microscope that...
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New mapping approach lets scientists zoom in and out as the brain processes...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have mapped the sound-processing part of the mouse brain in a way that keeps both the proverbial forest and the trees in view. Their imaging technique allows zooming in and...
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Discovery of new pathways controlling the serotonergic system.
With the aid of new methods, a research team at Karolinska Institutet have developed a detailed map of the networks of the brain that control the neurotransmitter serotonin. The study, published in the...
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Researchers use DNA paired with light to deliver drugs on target.
Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a targeted drug-delivery system that’s based on a combination of ultraviolet (UV) light and short,...
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Broad receptive field identified in multi-level neuronal activity.
Some neurons are more active than others, even when they are positioned right next to each other and are one and the same neuron type. Researchers from the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) and the NeuroCure...
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Optogenetics used to capture neuronal transmission in the live mammalian brain.
Neurons, the cells of the nervous system, communicate by transmitting chemical signals to each other through junctions called synapses. This synaptic transmission is critical for the brain and the...
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For the first time researchers have imaged and linked live individual brain...
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have used new deep-brain imaging techniques to link the activity of individual, genetically similar neurons to particular behaviours of mice. Specifically, for...
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Optogenetics study identifies neurons important for induction of natural REM...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have added another piece to the complex puzzle of how the brain controls one of the most essential...
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New mapping approach lets scientists zoom in and out as the brain processes...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have mapped the sound-processing part of the mouse brain in a way that keeps both the proverbial forest and the trees in view. Their imaging technique allows zooming in and...
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Discovery of new pathways controlling the serotonergic system.
With the aid of new methods, a research team at Karolinska Institutet have developed a detailed map of the networks of the brain that control the neurotransmitter serotonin. The study, published in the...
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Researchers identify gated-intermediary neuron system which acts as synaptic...
Neuroscientists believe that the connectome, a map of each and every connection between the millions of neurons in the brain, will provide a blueprint that will allow them to link brain anatomy to...
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Researchers optogenetically create artificial link between unrelated memories.
The ability to learn associations between events is critical for survival, but it has not been clear how different pieces of information stored in memory may be linked together by populations of...
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Researchers identify neural networks within the vagus nerve responsible for...
A precision genetic analysis has yielded a surprising result, a network of neurons control breathing with other specifically functioned neuronal networks within the vagus nerve. Among these...
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Researchers show that brain cancer proliferation is stimulated by nerve...
Deadly brain tumours called high-grade gliomas grow with the help of nerve activity in the cerebral cortex, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The...
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Researchers begin to map the corticothalamic pathway in selective...
A new study by Brown University neuroscientists details how the neocortex selectively samples from the flow of sensory information that might otherwise flood it. The team state that the usual metaphor...
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Researchers successfully implant and control light-sensitive opioid receptors...
Despite the abuse potential of opioid drugs, they have long been the best option for patients suffering from severe pain. The drugs interact with receptors on brain cells to tamp down the body’s pain...
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Microfluid device can control neurons and delivery drugs wirelessly.
A team of researchers from Washington University, National Institutes of Health and University of Illinois have developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain...
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Researchers identify previously unknown neural mechanism responsible for fat...
White adipose tissue, or fat tissue, serves as a storage depot for energy-rich triglycerides. In times of need this lipid storage can be released as part of an adaptive response to the energy shortage....
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