MIT neuroscientists have identified two brain circuits that help tune out distracting sensory information. Credit: MIT News Findings in mice suggest targeting certain brain circuits…
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Traumatic microbleeds appear as dark lesions on MRI scans and suggest damage to brain blood vessels after head injury. Credit: Image courtesy of Latour Lab/NINDS.…
Inset shows a donut-shaped 3D silk scaffold (represented as schematic in background) that has been treated with fetal pig brain extracellular matrix and seeded with…
Clip from the Human Amyloid Buildup video below. Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Long before symptoms like memory loss even emerge, the…
A study to be published online on Friday, October 4, 2019, in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of an…
Can you find an elephant in the picture? How about a red and white umbrella? If you looked for those items, you used the pre-supplementary…
Image of a Drosophila brain: Magenta indicates uninvolved synapses in the fly’s brain. The green highlighted neurons use the messenger octopamine to transmit signals from…
Microglia are specialized cells that work to clear away debris in the brain and perform other essential duties. These cells typically become dysregulated in Alzheimer’s…
Neuroscientists provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as much as expected. Using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, Vaidehi Natu…
Jason Esterhuizen, who lost his vision in a car accident, practices finding objects with his wife, Sumarie. A video camera on his glasses signals an…
Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made. Now, in a study of mice, a team…
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a system that detects pain in patients by analyzing brain activity from a wearable neuroimaging device, which could…
How relapse happens: Opiates reduce the brain’s ability to form, maintain synapses. Preclinical research was focused on revealing the molecular mechanisms behind addiction and relapse.…
And UK failing to recommend or monitor dietary levels of choline, warns nutritionist. The momentum behind a move to plant-based and vegan diets for the…
Brain organoids in a laboratory dish. Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Nine-month-old brains-in-a-dish and the brains of premature newborn babies generate similar electrical patterns,…
Researchers in Umeå, Sweden, have presented a model that explains why memory deteriorates as the body ages. With age, the brain receives an increased load…
Processing an event with multiple objects. A synchronous input where all objects are presented simultaneously to a computer (left), versus an asynchronous input where objects…