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    What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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    Dysfunctional Gene Leads to Potentially Treatable Hearing Loss

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·April 4, 2022·6 min read

Growing Up in Rural or Suburban Areas Improves Spatial Navigation

People who were raised in rural or suburban areas have better spatial navigation skills than those raised within a city, a new study reveals.
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·August 7, 2021·4 min read

Kids Set Free to Roam on Their Own Feel More Confident Navigating in Adulthood

Children allowed to explore a distance beyond their home either alone or with friends are more confident and accomplished in navigational skills as adults, researchers report.
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·March 10, 2021·3 min read

Where Am I Going? Just Ask Your Subiculum

The subiculum helps route navigation-associated information received by the hippocampus downstream to other areas of the brain.
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·March 1, 2021·3 min read

Noisy Brain Activity Contributes to Aging-Related Navigation Impairments

Overactive hippocampal activity may explain why some older people have trouble with spatial navigation and learning.
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·July 5, 2019·3 min read

How the brain remembers where you’re heading to

Theta oscillations help the brain remember locations to which a person is trying to navigate.
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·May 24, 2019·3 min read

How single neurons and brain networks support spatial navigation

Brain oscillations may help explain the link between individual neurons and larger scale networks for understanding spatial navigation.
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·May 24, 2019·6 min read

Virtual reality can spot navigation problems in early Alzheimer’s disease

People with mild cognitive impairment who had positive biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in their cerebrospinal fluid performed worse on virtual reality navigation tasks. Virtual reality which incorporates navigational tasks could prove a helpful tool in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease for those at risk.
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·April 24, 2019·6 min read

The mobile game that can detect Alzheimer’s risk

Sea Hero Quest, a navigation themed cell phone game, is helping researchers to identify those at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Those with a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's perform worse on the spatial navigation tasks in the game, taking more time and less efficient routes to checkpoint goals.
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·April 22, 2019·5 min read

Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell

During navigation tasks using a 'smell scape', the entorhinal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex elicit grid cell-like activity.
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·April 19, 2018·6 min read

Pathway to Spatial Recognition

A new study sheds light on how memory helps guide spatial navigation.
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·March 22, 2018·5 min read

New Brain Scanner Allows Patients to Move Freely For the First Time

Researchers have designed and developed a new MEG brain scanner that allows patients to move while undergoing neuroimaging evaluations.
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·February 27, 2018·3 min read

Brain Can Navigate Based Solely on Smells

Using a 'smell virtual landscape', researchers discover the mammalian brain can map our surroundings based on smells alone.
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