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(2023)Researchers have used language mapping paradigms in functional imaging studies (i.e. fMRI) to identify which regions of the brain support language processing. Previous work has identified brain regions that belong to the ...
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(2016-06-06)Department: NeuroscienceBody weight is tightly controlled by the homeostatic feeding system, which is primarily reliant upon communication between the endocrine system and the brain. The endocrine system and brain are highly complex systems with ...
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(2023-09-07)Department: NeuroscienceAphasia is an acquired communication disorder resulting from damage to language regions of the brain. Speech-language pathologists frequently use rhythmic elements (e.g., tapping to a beat) to facilitate speech output in ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: PsychologyIn our interactions with the world, we are constantly monitoring the state of our environment and using this information to guide decisions about our actions. Successful decision-making relies on effective cognitive control ...
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(2013-04-08)Department: PsychologyPerceptual decision making is a fundamental component of goal-directed behavior. Even simple perceptual decisions require interactions among different neuronal populations within and across brain areas. To relate neuronal ...
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(2018-11-27)Department: PsychologyOur brains transform the patterns of light on the two retinae into a singular view. Prior work demonstrated that neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the dorsal thalamus (LGN) and in the primary visual cortex (V1) ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: Biological SciencesThe initial steps of vision - the transduction and encoding of physical light stimuli into neural signals - occur in the retina, a multi-layered sheet of neurons that lines the back of the eye. Retinal dopamine (DA) acts ...
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(2021-05-06)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHuman thermoregulation models, where metabolic rate is used to maintain thermal homeostasis, have been of interest to anticipate human physiological changes in extreme temperatures as well as to predict comfort. Existing ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Computer ScienceFlow visualization serves as a crucial tool for scientists and researchers to gain valuable insights into complex flow data. However, with the growing complexity and scale of the numerical simulations, the resulting datasets ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: PsychologyAlterations in neurophysiological responses to reward are associated with depressive symptoms, particularly in combination with stress. Rejection sensitivity is also a known precursor to depression. Neural responses to ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: NeuroscienceThe origin and classification of neural stem cells (NSCs) has been a subject of intense investigation for the past two decades. Efforts to categorize NSCs based on their location, function, and expression have established ...
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(2020-08-18)Department: NeuroscienceTo best understand the biological underpinnings of psychological phenomena, one must understand two distinct but related dimensions: (1) the response properties of the underlying neurons and (2) the underlying cognitive ...
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(2006-08-03)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Systems NeuroscienceHow visual targets are selected for eye movements is a fundamental neural coding problem for all animals that see with a fovea. The strength of the model of the neuron as a coincidence detector suggests neural synchrony ...
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(2017-11-28)Department: NeuroscienceOur lab has created a construct valid mouse model based on the dopamine transporter (DAT) Val559 coding variant to elucidate neurobiological mechanisms supporting ADHD and other dopamine (DA)-linked comorbid disorders. ...
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(2024-02-12)Department: PsychologyPregnancy is a period of profound biological transformation, characterized by extensive physiological and hormonal adjustments. Approximately 85% of human females give birth in their lifetimes, we know remarkably little ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: NeuroscienceGlutamate (Glu) signaling plays a critical role in regulating neural excitability, thus supporting many behaviors. Perturbed Glu homeostasis in the brain is implicated in multiple psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders ...
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(2007-08-06)Department: Cancer BiologyNeuroendocrine (NE) prostate cancer develops as an aggressive disease that does not respond to androgen ablation therapy. The paracrine action of NE cells can facilitate progression of androgen dependent adenocarcinoma to ...
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(2015-07-17)Department: PharmacologyNeurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is the most common autosomal dominant genetic disorder occurring in 1 of every 3500 live births. NF1 is caused by loss-of-function mutations in NF1, the gene encoding the Ras-GAP neurofibromin. ...
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(2014-08-21)Department: NeuroscienceLeft-Right asymmetry of the CNS is a highly conserved feature across vertebrate classes. Asymmetry is manifest at the levels of function and connectivity. But the neural correlates of these asymmetries and their developmental ...
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(2014-04-09)Department: NeuroscienceThe emotional attentional blink (EAB), also known as emotion-induced blindness, refers to a phenomenon in which the brief appearance of a task-irrelevant, emotionally arousing image captures attention to such an extent ...