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·September 6, 2016·4 min read

Relaxing Your Feet Affects Your Hands

A new study reports that relaxing flexed muscles in your foot can reduce the ability of your hands to respond to stimulation.

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·August 22, 2016·4 min read

Stem Cell Therapy Heals Injured Mouse Brain

Researchers report a new technique may help increase the production of neurons in mice following a stroke.

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·August 15, 2016·5 min read

How Parkinson’s Alters Brain Activity Over Time

Researchers have identified how specific brain areas change over time in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Diagram shows how ketamine affects the brain.

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·May 11, 2016·3 min read

A ‘Communication Breakdown’ During General Anesthesia

A new study reveals the neurological mechanisms at work during ketamine anesthesia.

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·March 10, 2016·3 min read

Repetitive Body Movements May Form Long Lasting Motor Memories

Researchers report repetitive movements in slow learning stages can alter the primary motor cortex and help people retain new motor skills.

Image shows the location of the thalamus and pmc in the brain.

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·November 4, 2015·4 min read

How Some Patients in a Vegetative State Can Retain Awareness, Despite Appearing Unresponsive

New research helps explain how some patients in a vegetative state are aware, despite appearing unconscious and unresponsive.

This shows MRI scans where the brain plasticity has taken place.

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·September 9, 2015·5 min read

Brain Plasticity and Leprosy: Nerve Damage Caused by Ancient Disease Can Alter the Brain

According to researchers, peripheral nerve damage caused by leprosy can induce changes in the brain.

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·June 19, 2013·3 min read

Staging System in ALS Shows Potential Tracks of Disease Progression

Performing post-mortem staging of the brains and spinal cord tissue of patients with ALS, researchers discover the neurodegenerative disease could progress from one start point in the CNS to other regions of the brain and spinal cord.

The image is a topography of the primary motor cortex, on an outline drawing of the human brain. Different body parts are listed in this area.

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·February 5, 2013·3 min read

Stroke Damage in Mice Overcome by Training Which ‘Rewires’ Brain Centers

A new study discovers mice can recover from physically debilitating strokes that damage the primary motor cortex, if the rodents are quickly subjected to physical conditioning that rapidly “rewires” a different part of the brain to take over lost function.