Januar 2010
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How neurons react to electrical stimulation
With the aid of optical imaging technology, researchers have for the first time been able to see how neurons react to electrical stimulation. The neural response to electrical currents isn’t localized, as some had previously thought. Rather, electrical stimulation activates a scattered and widely distributed set of neurons.
Electrical stimulation was applied at the intersection of the two...
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“The observable, neurological effects of love would be empty without the vastness...”
– Russell Andrews
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Brain activity levels affect self-perception //...
The less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses. The natural human tendency to see oneself in a positive light can be helpful and motivating in some situations, but detrimental in others.
Those findings are being published in the February edition of the journal NeuroImage.
“In healthy people, the more you activate a portion of...
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Biologists discover aggression-promoting pheromone...
Reporting in the advance online edition of the journal Nature, the scientists say they have identified an aggression-promoting pheromone that controls such behaviors, and have pinpointed the neurons in the fly’s antenna that detect this pheromone and relay the information to the brain to elicit aggression. Their results provide an important first step toward unraveling the mystery of how...
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“Well ain’t you about as handy as a pocket on a shirt.”
– Dead & Breakfast 