Weight loss through slimming significantly alters the microbiome and brain activity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Worldwide, more than a billion people are obese. Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, ...
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More parallel “traffic” observed in the human brain than in animals
In the brains of mice and macaques, information was sent along a single “route,” while in humans there were multiple ...
New study sheds light on how the brain learns to seek reward
Credit: Allen Institute/Gabriel Rodriquez Imagine teaching a dog to play fetch. You throw a ball and your dog runs after ...
Study shows smoking likely causes brain shrinkage
Overview of the study. We examined: 1) the predictive ability of the polygenic risk score (PRS) for smoking initiation for ...
New computer tools can reconstruct the brain in 3D from biobank photos
Examples of inputs and outputs from the MADRC dataset. Credit: (2023). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.91398.1 Researchers have developed a suite of free ...
Brain tissue on a chip enables voice recognition
Brainoware with unsupervised learning for AI computing. ASchematic of an adaptive reservoir computing framework using Brainoware. bSchematic diagram of the ...
Real-time dopamine measurement using a flexible probe that minimizes brain damage
Credit: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) A research team led by Jang Kyung-in, an affiliate professor in ...
Parrots and songbirds have evolved distinct brain mechanisms, study finds
Graphical summary. Credit: Current biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.014 When humans learn to speak a language, we learn to produce new ...
When does the brain grow? Research shows that the brains of mice and primates mature at the same rate
Development of excitatory axons in mice and primates. a cartoon illustrating hypothetical models of excitatory axon development: on the left, ...
Brain implants revive cognitive abilities long after head trauma in clinical trial
Credit: CC0 Public domain In 2001, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college and planning to apply to ...
