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… How a unique class of neurons may set the table for brain development January 14, … cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory experience to refine circuits. inhibitory neurons … cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory experience to refine circuits. The way the brain …

… Small study suggests 40Hz sensory stimulation may benefit some Alzheimer’s patients for … method (called GENUS, for gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli), which is also being evaluated in a … synchrony of 40Hz gamma frequency brain waves, preserves neurons and their network connections, reduces Alzheimer’s …

… Research Feature The field is called neuroscience, but neurons alone can’t operate your brain. Research is revealing … myelination The field is called neuroscience, but neurons alone can’t operate your brain. Research is revealing … you took away all the cells in the human brain that aren’t neurons, you’d be left with half the brain. So what are all …

… The way sensory prediction changes under anesthesia tells us how … evidence that consciousness requires communication between sensory and cognitive regions of the brain’s cortex … brain, brain waves give short windows of opportunity for neurons to fire optimally – the ‘refresh rate’ of the brain, …

… Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain’s ‘white matter’ … band frequency of 40 Hz. A new study zeroes in on how 40Hz sensory stimulation helps to sustain an essential process in which the signal-sending branches of neurons, called axons, are wrapped in a fatty insulation …

… Small studies of 40Hz sensory stimulation confirm safety, suggest Alzheimer’s … clinical studies testing the safety and efficacy of 40Hz sensory stimulation to treat Alzheimer’s disease has found … support proceeding with more extensive study of 40Hz sensory stimulation as a potential non-invasive therapeutic …

… restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons in mice August 20, 2018 Research findings Neural … a decline in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain … is key to enabling learning and memory and in maintaining sensory acuity. In this study, while they focused on the …

… Playing chess, not checkers: Neurons dynamically control their myelin patterns December … the brain responds to stimuli, with different types of neurons using myelin in different ways. By dynamically … were fluorescently labeled. They changed the animals’ sensory input by closing one eye, then tracked how the brain …

… that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to … tasks. Across the tasks there were distinct pieces of sensory information to process (e.g. “a blue square appeared … while the spiking activity of neurons should represent the sensory inputs. When the researchers analyzed the brain wave …