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Researchers Map How the Brain Processes Faces From Sight to Recognition
Posted in Science on 27th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller
How does the brain recognise familiar faces with efficiency and ease despite extensive variation in how they appear?
Method discovered to remove amyloid plaques found in Alzheimers disease
Posted in Medicine on 25th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller
A strategy for removing amyloid plaques; clumps in a brain with Alzheimers disease that are created by misfolded proteins.
Using graphene to detect brain cancer cells
Posted in Medicine on 24th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller
By interfacing brain cells with graphene, researchers have differentiated a single hyperactive Glioblastoma Multiforme cancerous astrocyte cell from a normal cell in the lab.
Brain's party noise filter revealed by recordings
Posted in Science on 22nd Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller
Direct recordings have revealed what is happening in our brains as we make sense of speech in a noisy room.
MRI scans reveal Runners' Brains May Have More Connectivity, UA Research Shows
Posted in Medicine on 19th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller
MRI scans reveal that running may affect the structure and function of the brain in ways similar to playing a musical instrument.