Brain Cells, Doing Their Job With Some Neighborly Help
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How does the brain process all of the information being taken in by our senses every second of every day?
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Stem cells, which are believed to hold great medical promise, also play a lead role in fuelling the formation and growth of brain tumours.
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Researchers working with slices of rat brains come up with a microchip that mimics the part of the brain responsible for creating memories. They hope to create a prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Neuroscientists use coral and jellyfish DNA to create colorful arrays of neuronal connections in mouse brains.
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New recordings of electrical activity in the brain may explain a major part of its function, including how it consolidates daily memories and why it needs to dream.
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The areas of the brain involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies the areas involved in extinguishing those fears.
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A device that reads electricity radiated by the brain and translates it into action has been developed by scientists at the New York State Department of Health and the State University of New York.
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New evidence shows that the human brain can manufacture fresh brain cells, researchers said on Thursday in a study that may lead to better ways to treat brain damage and disease.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.
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Scientists have found a switch in the brain that appears to control anxiety and wakefulness.
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Scientists have used stem cells and a potion of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually re-grow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.
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Stem cells taken from human embryos  were coaxed into becoming motor neurons in an experiment that  might one day help scientists repair damaged nervous systems,  researchers reported Sunday.
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How advances in neuroscience could transform our legal system.
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Researchers have discovered for the first time that the human brain can grow new nerve cells.
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Turning specific cells on and off in fly brains can help researchers understand how individual parts of a complex system affect the whole animal.
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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.
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Scientists use the latest cell staining techniques to create a colourful "brainbow" of the tissues of the brain.