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·December 27, 2019·3 min read

A molecular map of the brain’s decision-making area

Using RNA sequencing, researchers have created a spatiomolecular map of the striatum, an area of the brain implicated in decision making and addiction.

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·December 9, 2019·3 min read

Researchers discover the origin and evolution of a famous concept of the brain

Researchers investigate the origin and evolution of one of the most famous neurobiology concepts, Penfield's homunculus.

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·November 8, 2019·3 min read

Building the first holographic brain ‘atlas’

Researchers used the HoloLense software to create an interactive holographic mapping system for axonal pathways in the human brain.

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·November 5, 2019·4 min read

Talk to the hand: Human brain can rewire itself after traumatic bodily injury

When the brain is deprived of input from a limb following amputation, it reorganizes its neural map and reroutes the function to the remaining limb.

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·October 14, 2019·6 min read

Dementia spreads via connected brain networks

A new brain mapping study allows for individual predictions of the progression of frontotemporal dementia.

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

How the brain repurposes unused regions

There is an underlying organization that dictates how the visual cortex is repurposed in blind people, which is not random.

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·September 13, 2019·2 min read

Discovering biological mechanisms enabling pianists to achieve skillful fingering

Expert pianists have altered mechanisms by with tactile and proprioceptive sensations suppress activity in the primary motor cortex.

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·September 13, 2019·5 min read

The toes of artists who paint with their feet can be mapped in their brains

Artists who paint with their feet have finely tuned toe maps in their brains. The study opens up questions about organizational principles of the whole body system.

This shows the location of the brain networks

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·September 2, 2019·3 min read

Map of broken brain networks shows why people lose speech in language-based dementia

Researchers have identified the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word-finding in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). PPA can occur in those with neurodegenerative diseases, such as frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Mapping the networks allows clinicians to apply non-invasive brain stimulation to potentially improve speech in those with PPA.

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·August 25, 2019·6 min read

Highest-resolution human brain ‘parts list’ to date lays road map to better treatments

Researchers have created the most comprehensive 'parts list' of the human brain to date. They uncovered crucial differences between human and mouse brain cells. The findings may explain why many drugs used in research do not work in human models.

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·August 19, 2019·5 min read

A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading

fMRI brain scans reveal semantic tuning during both reading and listening to words are highly correlated in selective areas of the cerebral cortex. The new brain maps enabled researchers to accurately predict which words would active specific regions of the cortex.

These brain scans shows the foot area highlighted

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·July 17, 2019·3 min read

Hit it where it hurts: Scientists reveal how mirrors cure phantom pain

Visual responsiveness in the somatosensory cortex diminishes significantly following mirror therapy for phantom limb pain. Before therapy, researchers discovered a strong, unexpected activation in the sensorimotor foot region of amputees to visually presented images of the foot. This response was no longer present following mirror therapy.

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brain mapping

A molecular map of the brain’s decision-making area

Researchers discover the origin and evolution of a famous concept of the brain

Building the first holographic brain ‘atlas’

Talk to the hand: Human brain can rewire itself after traumatic bodily injury

Dementia spreads via connected brain networks

How the brain repurposes unused regions

Discovering biological mechanisms enabling pianists to achieve skillful fingering

The toes of artists who paint with their feet can be mapped in their brains

Map of broken brain networks shows why people lose speech in language-based dementia

Highest-resolution human brain ‘parts list’ to date lays road map to better treatments

A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading

Hit it where it hurts: Scientists reveal how mirrors cure phantom pain

AI Chip Mimicking Brain’s Reflex Center Developed

Study Overturns Decades of External Axon Growth Theory

Study Shatters Assumptions About Brain Connectome Dynamics

Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness Found

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