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Neurons may build their identity after birth, study finds
12+ hour, 27+ min ago (240+ words) Neurons – nerve cells that transmit signals throughout the body – may not simply inherit their identity from the stem cells that produce them, according to a new study by researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. The study, published in…...
Cornell device lets researchers track animal brain activity in natural settings
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (636+ words) Cornell researchers have developed a lightweight wireless device that can record brain activity from animals moving freely in natural environments, giving scientists a new way to study behavior that has been difficult or impossible to reproduce in laboratories. The device,…...
Device gives first view of animal brain activity in the field
4+ day, 3+ min ago (488+ words) A new wireless device – lighter than a U.S. dime and shaped like a tiny chef’s hat – can track the brainwaves of animals as they move in natural habitats, opening doors to understanding complex behaviors that are impossible to study in the…...
Scientists Say the “Lizard Brain” Is a Myth, But the Truth About How Our Brains Evolved May Be Even Stranger
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...
Using Machine Learning To See How Living Brains Learn
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (468+ words) Reposted from U of U Health. A new study has used a type of machine learning called a neural network to reveal how different kinds of training can change how learning happens-both in machines and in living brains. "We can…...
Record-breaking brain organoids chronicle the passage of time for an astonishing 5 years
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (84+ words) Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended periods....
Scientists have traced the human eye back to a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago — and remnants of that ancient “cyclops” eye may still survive inside our brains as the pineal gland
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (197+ words) René Descartes decided the soul entered the body through the pineal gland, a lump of tissue roughly the size of a rice grain, buried near the centre of the...
Microscopic Cell Videos Reveal Brain's Inner Workings
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (148+ words) Videos and animations of kinesin proteins walking microtubules inside cells, often linked to brain learning and neuroplasticity, have drawn widespread wonder. These clips, rooted in real biology like ATP-powered transport and synaptic changes during experience, turn abstract processes into relatable…...
Scientists trace the arrow of time to interactions between neurons
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (1235+ words) A new framework shows how the arrow of time can emerge from interacting systems, with pairs of retinal neurons providing most irreversibility. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) A shattered glass can fall apart, but its pieces do not spontaneously leap…...
Before a brain can think, stem cells are ‘listening’ to their environment
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (359+ words) New Delhi: As the human brain develops, radial glia are the key “decision making” stem cells that give rise to neurons and other cells that eventually form the cerebral cortex. Researchers at UCLA have now found that radial glia are…...