Cell cultures have shown promise in representing diseases. The Petri dish is not as different from a sick person as one might think.
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Emotions play a key role in many types of spontaneous thoughts. Even microemotions — which are often fleeting and unconscious — can affect thoughts and influence attention.
Understanding how brain folding works could help researchers better diagnose and treat neurodevelopmental disorders.
Scientists have been mapping the brain for centuries. New visualization tools bring them one step closer to understanding where thoughts come from and new ways to treat neurological disorders.
The joint award recognizes the long road to deciphering the biology behind the brain’s ability to sense its surroundings – work that paves the way for a number of medical and biological breakthroughs.
Mounting research shows that going for a swim can preserve memories, reduce mood disorders and increase mental acuity in all age groups.
There’s buzz about MDMA – yes, the same ingredient in the street drug known as Ecstasy – being a game changer in the treatment of PTSD. A psychiatrist who treats PTSD says, “Not so fast.”
Scientists still still don’t fully understand how general anaesthesia affects the brain and body. A molecule found in bioluminescent stony coral may shed some light.
Adaptable neurons are tied to learning and memory but also to neurological disorders. By studying fruit flies, researchers found a mechanism that controls neuroplasticity.
Knowing what cells are more vulnerable could some day help researchers know why these cells are more vulnerable than others.
The mystery of how the brain creates consciousness still puzzles scientists, but the mechanics of waking up are starting to be understood.
Neurotrophic factors play an important role in protecting neurons – which is why researchers are investigating them as a treatment for Parkinson’s.
Artificial brains are far in the future, but computer chips that work like brains could keep computers advancing when today’s silicon transistor chips reach their limit.
Decades of research have shown that the brain does not yield its secrets easily.
Medical treatments involving neurostimulation are resurfacing and appear to be more effective than drugs in treating depression.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a crippling, progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. Now it seems that a diabetes drug may help some cases.
A bioengineer explains how a clearer picture of brain structure and function may fine-tune the ways brain surgery attempts to correct structure and medication tries to correct function.
Air traffic controllers have to process and manage large amounts of information to get airplanes to their destinations. The brain manages the incessant traffic of neurons in a similar fashion.
Brains recognize a smell based on which cells fire, in what order – the same way you recognize a song based on its pattern of notes. How much can you change the ‘tune’ and still know the smell?
The video-sharing platform may connect to our innate mental systems for physically copying one another
Principales colaboradores
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, University of South Florida
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Professeur agrégé de neurosciences computationnelles et neurophysiologie, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Head of Developmental Psychobiology Lab, Deakin University
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Cultural Geographer, Royal Holloway University of London
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Director of the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Neuroscience, The Open University
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Cognition, Lancaster University
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PhD student in neuroscience, UCL
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Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida
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Sir Henry Dale Fellow in Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL
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Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto
