New research shows cells gather more data than once believed inside the thalamus, a relay station of sensory and motor abilities in the brain. That
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Research into Alzheimer’s disease took another major leap forward as researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, succeeded in describing in detail how the pulsations
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The brain possesses a complex architecture of functional networks as its information-processing machinery. Is the brain’s network architecture itself a target of disease? If so,
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Modern brains are younger than originally thought, possibly developing as recently as 1.5 million years ago, according to a study published Thursday—after the earliest humans
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Kessler Foundation researchers have demonstrated changes in the functional connectivity within the ‘fatigue network’ in response to cognitive fatigue. This finding, the first of its
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An experimental treatment may have “jump-started” the brains of two patients who had been in a minimally conscious state for months following a coma, according
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In 2016, a team led by UCLA’s Martin Monti reported that a 25-year-old man recovering from a coma had made remarkable progress following a treatment
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Every year, more than 400,000 people die from malaria, the majority are children under the age of five years old, who die from a disease
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The brains of musicians have stronger structural and functional connections compared to those of non-musicians, regardless of innate pitch ability, according to new research from
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Humans aren’t born with mature brain circuitry that attaches emotions to the things they see or hear in their environment, a new study shows. Researchers
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