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·May 5, 2020·4 min read

Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep

Researchers provide the first evidence that the human brain replays waking experiences while we sleep.

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·April 23, 2020·4 min read

Brain-computer interface technology restores sense of touch to man with SCI

Researchers were able to restore the sense of touch to a 28-year-old who suffered a spinal cord injury with the help of new brain-computer interface technology.

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·April 1, 2020·5 min read

How dopamine drives brain activity

Neuroimaging reveals how dopamine released from the striatum influences brain activity in the motor cortex and insular.

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·March 26, 2020·4 min read

Brain mapping study suggests motor regions for the hand also connect to the entire body

The hand knob area of the premotor cortex operates across a wide range of motor functions and body areas.

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·January 24, 2020·3 min read

Optical stimulation causes marmosets to move their forelimbs

Optogenetic stimulation of the motor cortex causes marmosets to move their forelimbs in an almost puppet-like fashion.

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·January 2, 2020·4 min read

Some learning is a whole-brain affair

Motor learning induces widespread cortical synaptic potentiation by increasing the trafficking of AMPAR into dendritic spines.

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·December 9, 2019·3 min read

How playing the drums changes the brain

Drummers have higher microstructural diffusion in the corpus callosum, an area of the brain that connects the two hemispheres and which plays a critical role in motor planning.

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·October 3, 2019·6 min read

Key to learning and forgetting identified in sleeping brain

Using optogenetics to dampen delta waves of rats during sleep resulted in weaker memory reactivation and promoted forgetting. The findings could have significant implications for treating PTSD in humans.

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·September 13, 2019·4 min read

How emotion affects action

Researchers have identified a comprehensive circuit mechanism that governs how emotional states can influence movement through connections in the basal ganglia. The mechanism represents a way in which emotional states relate to changes in action control in depression, anxiety, and OCD.

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·August 28, 2019·5 min read

How your brain remembers motor sequences

Humans encode motor sequences in terms of a three-level hierarchy.

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·June 12, 2019·3 min read

Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain

Study identifies a population of neurons in an area of the midbrain, called the red nucleus, that alter when fine motor skills are learned. The more an action is practiced, the stronger the connections between these neurons become.

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·April 19, 2019·2 min read

Research provides important insight on the brain-body connection

Neurons in the motor cortex of rats fall into two categories, those that are externally focused and relay information to other parts of the body, and those that are internally focused. When inhibition is increased, the externally focused neurons switch to internally focused cells.

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motor cortex

Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep

Brain-computer interface technology restores sense of touch to man with SCI

How dopamine drives brain activity

Brain mapping study suggests motor regions for the hand also connect to the entire body

Optical stimulation causes marmosets to move their forelimbs

Some learning is a whole-brain affair

How playing the drums changes the brain

Key to learning and forgetting identified in sleeping brain

How emotion affects action

How your brain remembers motor sequences

Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain

Research provides important insight on the brain-body connection

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