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Most previous investigations of brain circuitry have focused on superficial cortical layers, because these are easier to access. Studies by the authors and other groups have reported that layer 2/3 ...
Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...
Scientists at the Salk Institute are unveiling a new brain-mapping neurotechnology called Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START). The cutting-edge tool combines two advanced ...
Scientists at the Salk Institute are unveiling a new brain-mapping neurotechnology called Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START). The cutting-edge tool combines two advanced ...
A new brain-mapping neurotechnology called Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START) combines two technologies—monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and single-cell transcriptomics—to ...
Patients were assigned randomly to receive either 30 or 60 mg of the therapy, or a placebo, taken twice a day, for about six months. Background use of antifibrotics or select immunosuppressive ...
Creativity How Neuroplasticity Affects Creativity Understanding our brain's ability to innovate. Updated June 13, 2023 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk ...
University of Eastern Finland. "How an antidepressant increases brain plasticity." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 5 April 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 / 230405112132.htm>.
Though there are various types of neuronal plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP) is the most studied one, especially in the hippocampus (brain region associated with learning and memory).
So while it is thought that chronic pain causes changes in neural circuits, giving rise to depression and anxiety, as the Hokkaido University researchers further pointed out, “ … brain areas ...