by Universitaet Tübingen Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100432 Rolandic epilepsy is a common form of epilepsy in children which occurs primarily during sleep. Short sounds played during sleep can partially suppress the neuronal discharges characteristic of epilepsy. That’s according to a research team from the University of Tübingen and Tübingen University Hospitals. The team is headed...
by Matt Davenport, Michigan State University A network of glial cells, the logic gates of the gut’s nervous system, are seen in this micrograph. The cells — the dark orbs enveloped in gray — have been colorized according to how they respond to a chemical signal. Credit: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci./Gulbransen Lab Researchers at Michigan State University...
by American Institute of Physics Schematic of the dynamic core hypothesis (a), with each circle representing a neuron or groups of neurons, and the links between them transient synchronization. Temporally evolving assemblies (b) can be represented as modules unfolding within a multilayer network. Credit: Sofía Morena del Pozo, Helmut Laufs, Vincent Bonhomme, Steven Laureys, Pablo Balenzuala,...
by California Institute of Technology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A Caltech professor, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southern California, has demonstrated for the first time a new technology for imaging the human brain using laser light and ultrasonic sound waves. The technology, known as photoacoustic computerized tomography, or PACT, has been developed by Lihong Wang,...
By Rich Haridy April 11, 2021 New imaging research suggests functional brain network connectivity alterations could explain cognitive problems associated with chronic sinusitis. More than one in 10 adults in the United States suffer from chronic rhinosinusitis, a persistent inflammatory sinus condition. A new brain imaging study is suggesting chronic rhinosinusitis is associated with functional...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/UW MEDICINE The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also commonly struggle to focus, and experience depression and other symptoms that implicate the brain’s involvement in their illness. New research links sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity, specifically with the neural...
NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS A team of researchers from Russia and Israel applied a new algorithm to classify the severity of autistic personality traits by studying subjects’ brain activity. The article ‘Brief Report: Classification of Autistic Traits According to Brain Activity Recoded by fNIRS Using ε-Complexity Coefficients’ is published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders....
by Imperial College London The researchers behind the early-stage work, published in JCI Insight, are exploring whether kisspeptin can ultimately be used to treat men with common psychosexual disorders—sexual problems which are psychological in origin such as low libido. The team are now hoping to perform trials in patients with low sexual desire. The team...
NIH-supported study finds that spatial “replay” in neurons may help rats learn how to navigate toward goals Specialized brain activation “replays” the possible routes that rats can take as they navigate a space, helping them keep track of the paths they’ve already taken and choose among the routes that they can take next, according to...
A team of neuroscientists from Göttingen and Tehran shows how our brain combines visual features to achieve a unified percept DEUTSCHES PRIMATENZENTRUM (DPZ)/GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER To investigate how information of different visual features is processed in the brain, the neuroscientists from the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute of Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany, the Iran University of Science and Technology and the...
