... to recall was similar to that of control subjects without brain damage. The impaired patients easily remembered ... provide strong evidence for a fundamental distinction in the brain between working memory and long-term memory ...
... , branch-like structures on neuronal cells that form a communicative network with other dendrites and neurons in the brain. The work, led by neuroscientists Joshua R ...
... ) in the highly static, non-renewable mammalian brain was a breakthrough in neuroscience. Most emphasis was put on the possibility ... slowes down hopes for generalized brain repair. Work carried out in the recent past at the University ...
... words. "This study demonstrates how the plasticity of the human brain can work for the benefit of remedial learning," says neuroscientist ... for the meanings of the words and the structure of the sentence, activating other brain areas. The sentences were relatively straightforward ones, which the children ...
... of the paper published in the journal Brain. "Our work seems to indicate that the brain pathways of people with autism ... frontal gyrus. "This study shows that the brains of people with autism are not working as cohesively as those of people without ...
... cell and the presynaptic cell." This complex process may be the brain's way of preventing mistaken learning, according to Glanzman ... thinking. "I wanted to understand how the brain actually works," he said. "In the Aplysia, one understands what ...
... never leaves the cell," Herrup said. "Homeostasis in the brain has worked out a way to successfully suppress cell ... is probably related to the changed chemistry of the Alzheimer's brain and chronic inflammation that accompanies AD," Herrup ...
New research has proved that electrical communication in the brain can work in analogue as well as digital, a finding that could help explain brain disorders.
... layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking -- connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified ... core, or hub, that may be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain. The work by the researchers from Indiana University ...
... noise" is a term that has been used by neuroscientists to describe random brain activity that is not important to mental function. Intuitive ... Institute at Baycrest. "This doesn't mean the brain is working less efficiently. It's showing greater ...
From a series of brain scans, scientists find evidence that 'sleeping on a problem' does work
... brain protein called neuropeptide S is involved in erasing traumatic responses to adverse memories by working ... with extinction learning of fear memories in the brain. Previous work by Reinscheid's group has shown that NPS ...
... anticipate their work also will reveal genetic clues that can direct additional research. Autism is a brain disorder ... one has ever done that." Duan's facial and brain imaging work will focus on two ASD subgroups ...
... imaging shows that the brains of teens that use marijuana are working harder than the brains of their peers who abstain from the drug ... are using more of their parietal and frontal cortices to complete the tasks. Their brain is working harder than it should," Medina says. She ...
Two pacemakers in the brain work together in harmony to ensure that breathing occurs in a regular rhythm ... , lead author of the paper, both brain regions work together to regulate respiration during ...
