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·September 12, 2016·7 min read

Study Reveals Weight Loss Drug’s Effect on Brain

Researchers report a weight loss dampens the response to food cues in areas of the brain associated with emotion and attention.

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·September 8, 2016·4 min read

Linking Perception to Action

Researchers map the neural activation that occurs during the delay between sensation and action.

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·August 30, 2016·5 min read

Amputees’ Brains Remember Missing Hands Even Years Later

Researchers report that in a patient who lost their hand almost three decades ago, the brain maintains an accurate representation of the missing fingers.

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·August 11, 2016·5 min read

Researchers Reprogram Network of Brain Cells in Mice With Thin Beam of Light

A new optogenetics study adds support for brain plasticity.

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·August 9, 2016·4 min read

Opening the Door For Vision Prosthetic Prototypes

A new initiative is funding ground breaking research into visual prosthetic prototypes.

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·August 4, 2016·4 min read

Timing is Everything When it Comes to Recognizing Shapes

A new study reports vision relies on patterns of brain activity.

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·July 8, 2016·5 min read

Sparking Sharper Sight: Mild Electrical Current May Improve Vision

A new study reveals stimulating the visual cortex for 20 minutes with a mild electrical current can improve vision for 2 hours.

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·June 30, 2016·6 min read

MRI Technique Induces Strong and Enduring Visual Associations

Researchers induce people to perceive colors that were't really there and provide evidence that the V1 and V2 visual areas are capable of associative learning.

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·June 29, 2016·4 min read

Human Early Visual Cortex Subconsciously Resolves Invisible Conflicts

Researchers conclude that visual competition could occur without conscious representation of the conflicting visual inputs.

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·June 10, 2016·5 min read

Neurons Return to Their Original State After a Change

According to researchers, individual cells adjust to changes in their environment, but once the environment returns to its original state, the individual neurons reassume their initial response properties.

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·May 25, 2016·4 min read

Mismatch of Vascular and Neural Responses Suggests Limits of FMRI

According to a new study, during sensory stimulation, increases of blood flow are not precisely tuned to local neural activity, and this can have implications for fMRI neuroimaging.