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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Need for awareness to tackle symptoms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Hyderabad: Eminent experts in the state have put an impetus on the need to highlight the significance of spreading awareness about the symptoms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and management strategies to mitigate its impact on patients and their families. It is crucial to raise awareness among healthcare professionals, expectant parents, and the public about rare diseases and SMA so that …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Mini-brain discovered in the heart. Yes, you read that right

India Today

New research from the Karolinska Institutet and Columbia University has unveiled a groundbreaking discovery: the heart possesses its own nervous system, often referred to as a "mini-brain," which plays a crucial role in controlling heartbeat rhythms. This study, published in Nature Communications, challenges the long-standing belief that the heart is solely regulated by signals from the brain via the autonomic …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening

Raw Story

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. However, whether the absence of new neurons contributes to the cognitive challenges patients with these neurological disorders face is unknown. But in humans, the technical challenges of identifying and analyzing new neurons in adult brains, combined with their rarity, had led scientists to doubt their significance to brain function. …

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3 weeks ago

Creating a festival of festivals in Bengaluru

Hindustan Times

Open the BLR Hubba homepage and I guarantee that you are going to get overwhelmed by the number of things on offer. Currently in its second edition with a budget of ₹8 crores, the Hubba runs from November 30 to December 14 at different venues across Bangalore. Gode or Wall incorporates street art murals by a variety of artists across …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Crowdfunding website CEO accused of falsely collecting Rs 4 crore to treat child

India Today

Piyush Jain, the CEO of medical crowdfunding platform Impact Guru, reacted hours after a case of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy was filed against him and two others for falsely collecting donations worth Rs 4.5 crore for the treatment of a four-month-old child suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. However, in an official statement released on Wednesday evening, Jain called the complaint …

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4 weeks ago

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow

Live Mint

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For many years the race to assemble an adult fly connectome seemed likely to be won by the FlyEM project at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, in Virginia. In 2020 FlyEM’s researchers, led by Gerry Rubin, a veteran fly biologist, published a connectome of an adult fruit-fly “hemibrain”, a set of 27,000 neurons …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Frazzled due to stress? Study says it can alter your memories

Hindustan Times

Stress can do more than just affecting our mood and ruining the day. A recent study led by Dr. Sheena Josselyn and Dr. Paul Frankland, The Hospital for Sick Children states that stress can alter the way the brain stores and processes memories. But when the brain is exposed to high amounts of stress, endocannabinoids can disturb the gatekeeping neurons, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent

NPR

Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent toggle caption koto_feja/Getty Images/E+ A study of cells from 84 cadaver brains suggests that Alzheimer's has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially vulnerable. The study also found evidence that a small subset of neurons known as somatostatin inhibitory neurons begin to die off during the early …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Synapses and Weights: Unveiling the Mysteries of Artificial Neural Networks

The Hindu

The article explores the functioning of artificial neural networks and the development of deep learning models. It introduces the terms 'synapses' and 'weights' to describe the strength of connections between nodes in biological and artificial neural networks respectively. The article also mentions the Restricted Boltzmann machine, a model that inspired the development of deep learning, and introduces the term 'attractors' …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Empathy vs Xenophobia: Warring children of Oxytocin

Times of India

A nomad interested in twisting the kaleidoscope of science and looking for new patterns From the oxytocin perspective, human world gets divided into “us-and-them” that scientists refer to as in-group and out-group model. So, regardless of you having posted a thousand social media posts celebrating white/black/brown/yellow culture, if you end up alone on a ship with everyone else of different …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Fruit fly brain map ‘could help shed light on how humans think and behave’

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr Gregory Jefferis, from the Medical Research Council’s laboratory of molecular biology and from the …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The most detailed map of the brain EVER seen: Stunning images reveal all 139,255 neurons - and the 50 million connections between them

Daily Mail

The structure of the brain is one of the most bafflingly complex puzzles in the universe. The map contains the location of 139,255 neurons and 50 million connections between them The researchers cut a fly brain into 7,000 slices and scanned them with an electron microscope to reveal how each neuron is connected throughout the entire brain If an individual …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Science for all newsletter how do lidocaine ointments work?

The Hindu

If a doctor has prescribed you an ointment for chronic pain, chances are it contains a compound named “lidocaine”. Like most local anaesthetics, lidocaine affects sodium channels located on the inner surface of neurons. In this state, the neuron cannot accept any more sodium ions, because sodium ions move along a concentration gradient and already exist as positive ions in …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

From fruit fly to this guy: a map of one tiny brain may show how larger ones work

NPR

From fruit fly to this guy: a map of one tiny brain may show how larger ones work toggle caption Amy Sterling for FlyWire, Princeton University, Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. “There’s a lot of fundamental principles of brain function that we can learn by studying the fly brain,” says Murthy, …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

双语早读丨研究：偶尔健忘可能表明记忆系统非常健康

China Daily

上周刚见过的人，这周又不记得叫什么名字了。总爱忘事儿让人烦恼，然而最新研究表明，健忘可能是优点。大脑选择性的记忆能让你做出更明智的决策，也体现出你的高智商。如果事事牢记不是你的强项，你可以放心了。最新研究表明，健忘可能是个优点。事实上，选择性记忆甚至可能表明智商更高。 You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology of forgetting can be just as important to our decision-making as what our minds choose to remember. 理查兹告诉《每日科学》的记者：“如果你试图应对复杂情况，而你的大脑不停地记起多种互相矛盾的记忆，那会让你难以做出明智的决策。” “If you’re trying to navigate the …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus

Wired

Activity trackers have come a long way. Today, Boston-based company Neurable announced the launch of its smart headphones, dubbed the MW75 Neuro, which use electroencephalography, or EEG, and artificial intelligence to track the wearer’s focus levels by reading their brain waves. Noninvasive BCIs like Neurable’s collect brain data though the skin—usually with EEG—without requiring any kind of surgery. EEG is …

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3 months, 1 week ago

China's super microscope broadens understanding on how cells interact in mammals

China Daily

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists crafted a super intravital microscope that is capable of seeing clearly the entire three-dimensional interactions of a large-scale cell's network at the mammalian organ level. They captured the distinct response patterns of various cortical regions under multi-sensory stimulation and tracked large-scale neural responses with single-neuron precision across several consecutive days, according to the …

3 months, 1 week ago

China's super microscope broadens understanding on how cells interact in mammals

China Daily

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists crafted a super intravital microscope that is capable of seeing clearly the entire three-dimensional interactions of a large-scale cell's network at the mammalian organ level. They captured the distinct response patterns of various cortical regions under multi-sensory stimulation and tracked large-scale neural responses with single-neuron precision across several consecutive days, according to the …

3 months, 1 week ago

A new AI model can predict some brain signals in fruit flies

NPR

A new AI model can predict some brain signals in fruit flies Researchers have created an AI model that can predict some fruit fly brain signals. JUANA SUMMERS, BYLINE: Scientists have created an artificial intelligence system that thinks like a fruit fly, and that's a good thing. HAMILTON: And Macke says there's no good way to see all the information …

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4 months ago

Vigyan Yuva awardee Aravind Penmatsa: Exploring proteins in neuronal membranes

Hindustan Times

Both winners in the Biological Sciences category of this year’s Yuva Vigyan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards study membrane proteins, molecules in the cell membrane that transport materials and exchange signals. Aravind Penmatsa of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, describes his work with membrane proteins in neurons. These roles are performed by different types of membrane proteins, which are involved …

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4 months ago

Elinzanetant: Experimental pill cut hot flashes and improved sleep for women in menopause — without using hormones

CNN

CNN — An experimental once-a-day pill that works without hormones significantly reduced the number of hot flashes experienced by women going through menopause and improved their sleep compared to a placebo, according to two new trials from drugmaker Bayer. The drug, called elinzanetant, works by blocking the brain chemicals responsible for hot flashes and night sweats – what doctors call …

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5 months ago

Lack of proper sleep could lead to brain-related problems, warn doctors

India TV News

On the occasion of World Brain Day, healthcare professionals are emphasising the critical importance of not sacrificing sleep to meet deadlines or spending excessive time on the internet. People must be made aware that without proper sleep, the required pathways in the brain to create new memories and new response systems, will get adversely affected." While good sleep will have …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory

Hindustan Times

Montreal, The puzzle of memory has intrigued philosophers and intellects for a very long time. Storing and processing memories uses nanoscopic motor proteins called kinesin that move materials around within neurons to construct the structural code of memory. For 20 years, neuroscientists — including myself — have used cutting-edge microscopy technology in living animals to observe microscopic structures called dendritic …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Why should educational institutions consider promoting a secular form of spirituality?

The Hindu

Most educators would agree that a rounded education should nurture the physical, emotional, social and linguistic domains. Feeling of connection In his book, The Transcendent Brain, physicist and writer Alan Lightman avers that spiritual experiences involve certain features. Lightman explains that “transcendent experiences are ego-free”, wherein people “lose track of time and space,’ “our bodies” and “of our selves”. Whether …

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Need for awareness to tackle symptoms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Mini-brain discovered in the heart. Yes, you read that right

Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening

Creating a festival of festivals in Bengaluru

Crowdfunding website CEO accused of falsely collecting Rs 4 crore to treat child

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow

Frazzled due to stress? Study says it can alter your memories

Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent

Synapses and Weights: Unveiling the Mysteries of Artificial Neural Networks

Empathy vs Xenophobia: Warring children of Oxytocin

Fruit fly brain map ‘could help shed light on how humans think and behave’

The most detailed map of the brain EVER seen: Stunning images reveal all 139,255 neurons - and the 50 million connections between them

Science for all newsletter how do lidocaine ointments work?

From fruit fly to this guy: a map of one tiny brain may show how larger ones work

双语早读丨研究：偶尔健忘可能表明记忆系统非常健康

I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus

China's super microscope broadens understanding on how cells interact in mammals

China's super microscope broadens understanding on how cells interact in mammals

A new AI model can predict some brain signals in fruit flies

Vigyan Yuva awardee Aravind Penmatsa: Exploring proteins in neuronal membranes

Elinzanetant: Experimental pill cut hot flashes and improved sleep for women in menopause — without using hormones

Lack of proper sleep could lead to brain-related problems, warn doctors

Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory

Why should educational institutions consider promoting a secular form of spirituality?