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·August 29, 2020·2 min read

“Jumping” DNA Regulates Human Neurons

Transposable elements team up with evolutionary recent neurons to influence differentiation and physiological function of neurons in brain development.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·September 25, 2017·4 min read

A Brain System That Builds Confidence in What We See, Hear and Touch

A new study sheds light on the mechanisms behind metacognition and how we make sense of the world around us.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·October 28, 2022·6 min read

A New Device for Early Diagnosis of Degenerative Eye Disorders

Researchers have developed a new ophthalmological device that can detect degenerative visual problems such as age-related macular degeneration long before the onset of the first symptoms.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 27, 2017·7 min read

Advanced Artificial Limbs Mapped in the Brain

Following targeted motor and sensory reinnervation, a procedure that reroutes residual limb nerves to intact muscles and skin in amputees, the brain remaps both motor and sensory pathways. Additionally, researchers note, TMSR may help counteract poorly adapted cortical plasticity following amputation.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 5, 2023·3 min read

AI Revolutionizes Neuron Tracking in Moving Animals

Researchers developed an AI-based method to track neurons in moving and deforming animals, a significant advancement in neuroscience research. This convolutional neural network (CNN) method overcomes the challenge of tracking brain activity in organisms like worms, whose bodies constantly change shape.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 13, 2018·5 min read

Amputees Feel as Though Their Prosthetic Limb Belongs to Their Own Body

A new study reports amputees often feel as though their prosthetic limb is part of their body.

This shows a glowing, blue, transparent hand.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 21, 2023·6 min read

Amputees Sense Temperature in Missing Limbs

A new study reveals amputees can feel temperature in their phantom limbs using thermal electrodes placed on their residual arms. Participants in the study reported feeling heat or cold, and discerning material types, such as copper, plastic, or glass.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 30, 2019·4 min read

Blue Brain finds how neurons in the mouse neocortex form billions of synaptic connections

Scientists generated statistical instances of the micro-connectome, containing over 10 million neurons. The model spans five orders of magnitude and contains 88 billion synaptic connections.

The illustration is of pyramidal neurons in a rat's neocortex

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 21, 2019·4 min read

Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem

A mathematical algorithm developed by the Blue Brain Project can objectively classify different shapes of neurons in the brain. The algorithm has already helped researchers objectively identify 17 types of pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory cortex of a rat.

Featured Psychology

·July 26, 2017·4 min read

Body Ownership is Not Impaired in Schizophrenia

Using the Full Body Illusion test, researchers discover those with schizophrenia do not have an impaired sense of body ownership. The findings contradict other theories which state those with schizophrenia may feel as though their bodies do not belong to themselves.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·July 20, 2021·3 min read

Brain ‘Noise’ Keeps Nerve Connections Young

Study reveals how miniature release events help to keep neurons intact and preserve motor neuron function in aging insects.

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·July 13, 2020·5 min read

Brain ‘Signature’ Could Help to Diagnose Schizophrenia

An EEG study reveals people with schizophrenia and their siblings without the disorder share patterns of brain activity that are different from people with no familial history of schizophrenia. As one sibling didn't suffer from schizophrenia, researchers say the different brain signature could serve as a biomarker for the mental health disorder.

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EPFL

“Jumping” DNA Regulates Human Neurons

A Brain System That Builds Confidence in What We See, Hear and Touch

Advanced Artificial Limbs Mapped in the Brain

AI Revolutionizes Neuron Tracking in Moving Animals

Amputees Feel as Though Their Prosthetic Limb Belongs to Their Own Body

Amputees Sense Temperature in Missing Limbs

Blue Brain finds how neurons in the mouse neocortex form billions of synaptic connections

Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem

Body Ownership is Not Impaired in Schizophrenia

Brain ‘Noise’ Keeps Nerve Connections Young

Brain ‘Signature’ Could Help to Diagnose Schizophrenia

Genes Associated with Earlier and Higher Reproduction Linked to Accelerated Aging

Novel Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Shows Promise

Brain’s Response to Crucial Language Hub Removal: New Insights

Did Fermentation Drive Human Brain Evolution?

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