A systematic review finds that just three small, non-randomized studies with low-certainty evidence suggest plasticity-based training may improve selected residual visual functions after cortical blindness.
The authors concluded that mushroom spines likely respond better to signals coming across the synaptic cleft than do stubs, perhaps explaining why the former stick around throughout adulthood while the latter disappear. The analytical techniques used in this paper may…
The resulting IgY-DILP2 antibody from this study specifically labeled the insulin-producing cells, or IPCs, in the adult fly brain, the neuroendocrine cells where DILP2 is naturally produced. Validation went further using a previously characterized dUCH-knockdown model, a genetic system in which…
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Wccftech is a global technology and gaming publication delivering trusted news, reviews, and analysis across PC hardware, mobile tech, semiconductors, gaming, and the business of tech. Artificial Neurons Can Now Be Used To Replace Human Brain Cells Scientists have built…
Harvard affiliates developed a silicon chip that successfully mapped more than 70,000 synaptic connections from 2,000 rat neurons, advancing a new recording technology to complement existing neural imaging techniques. The research from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was published last…
Human brain organoids can relay signals that correspond to Braille letters – in other words, the tiny tissue cultures can now ‘read’. Record-breaking brain organoids chronicle the passage of time for an astonishing 5 years Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive…
A rat study combining fMRI, optogenetics, and connectivity modeling shows that high-frequency thalamic activation is preserved locally but fails to produce sustained cortical responses, revealing a frequency-dependent bottleneck in thalamocortical transfer. News Source: Cassandra Pierce. (October 27, 2026). High-frequency sensory signals get…
A new hypothesis paper proposes treating access to high-performance cognitive states as a closed-loop engineering problem, specifying a five-layer architecture and a staged validation program while presenting no empirical results. News Source: Cassandra Pierce. (October 27, 2026). A New Framework Proposes Controlling…
Two new studies show that the thalamus--the small central brain structure often characterized as a mere pit-stop for sensory information on its way to the cortex--is heavily involved in sensory processing, and is an important conductor of the…
Tools that control and watch neurons: optogenetics and light-gated channels, chemogenetics, voltage imaging, neural recording probes and brain mapping.
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