... building large-scale computational models of the human brain to help us understand processes ... maps of the diffusion of water molecules through brain tissue. A highly sensitive variant of the method, ...
... 's open access journal Genome Biology adds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a costly by-product of human brain evolution. Philipp Khaitovich, from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary ...
Just one night without sleep can increase the amount of the chemical dopamine in the human brain, according to new imaging research in the August 20 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Because drugs ...
... perceptual masking, computational modeling, and neuroimaging to show that instrumental learning can occur in the human brain without conscious processing of contextual cues. "Humans frequently invoke ...
Alternative energy is all the rage in major media headlines, but for the human brain, this is old news. According to a study by researchers from Denmark and The Netherlands published in the October ...
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've taken one of the first "direct looks" at a human brain signal that never switches off and might support many cognitive functions.
... published in PLoS Computational Biology by neuroscientists and mathematicians from the INSERM and ENSTA. How the human brain organizes and controls our actions is a crucial question in life sciences. ...
Alternative energy is all the rage in major media headlines, but for the human brain, this is old news. According to a study by researchers from Denmark and The Netherlands published in the October ...
... task. These modes are called exploration and exploitative, respectively.
"We found that modafinil shifts the human brain into exploitation mode and study subjects perform better on tasks," Minzenberg ...
... 21,000 people in this country were diagnosed with brain and nervous system cancers, Senator Edward ... fly model can be rapidly translated into mouse and human brain tumor studies and lead to development ...
... cells are turned into a co-culture of nerve cells and astrocytes - the most basic units of the human brain. The research could lead to improved treatments for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative ...
... & Brain Sciences Unit, and the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Unit Cambridge, the dynamics of human brain networks have something important in common with some superficially very different systems in ...
... strangers in a crowd."
Although successful decisions are thought to benefit from previous experience, the human brain mechanisms that mediate flexible decision making through learning are not well ...
How does the human brain process information? Researchers explore new methodologies that shed light on this age-old mystery. The human brain is perhaps the most complex of organs, boasting ...
... PP2A (protein phosphatase 2A) suppresses brain tumor formation and controls the balance of self- ... PP2A may provide useful insights for certain types of human brain tumors and possibly in a wide variety ...
