Changing your mind based on info, or simply to conform? Brain activity differentiates between types of social influence – NovLink Home Mash B Changing your mind based on info, or simply to conform? Brain activity differentiates between types of social influence We would love to say thanks to the writer of this write-up for this … Read more
Journal Reference: Remi Daviet, Gökhan Aydogan, Kanchana Jagannathan, Nathaniel Spilka, Philipp D. Koellinger, Henry R. Kranzler, Gideon Nave, Reagan R. Wetherill. Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes in the UK Biobank. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28735-5 The research, using a dataset of more than 36,000 adults, revealed that going … Read more
Journal Reference: Adam Frank, David Grinspsoon, Sara Walker. Intelligence as a planetary scale process. International Journal of Astrobiology, 2022; 1 DOI: 10.1017/S147355042100029X Take, for example, plants: plants ‘invented’ a way of undergoing photosynthesis to enhance their own survival, but in so doing, released oxygen that changed the entire function of our planet. This is just … Read more
Journal Reference: Jun Liu, John C. Trefry, April M. Babka, Christopher W. Schellhase, Kayla M. Coffin, Janice A. Williams, Jo Lynne W. Raymond, Paul R. Facemire, Taylor B. Chance, Neil M. Davis, Jennifer L. Scruggs, Franco D. Rossi, Andrew D. Haddow, Justine M. Zelko, Sandra L. Bixler, Ian Crozier, Patrick L. Iversen, Margaret L. Pitt, … Read more
Journal Reference: Daisuke Yamada, Junpei Takahashi, Keita Iio, Hiroshi Nagase, Akiyoshi Saitoh. Modulation of glutamatergic synaptic transmission and neuronal excitability in the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex via delta-opioid receptors in mice. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2021; 560: 192 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.05.002 For a group of Japanese researchers from Tokyo University of Science and University of … Read more
Journal Reference: Satoko Amemori, Ann M. Graybiel, Ken-ichi Amemori. Causal Evidence for Induction of Pessimistic Decision-Making in Primates by the Network of Frontal Cortex and Striosomes. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021; 15 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.649167 In previous research, negative mental states have been shown to upset this balance between payoff and hardship toward more ‘pessimistic’ decision making … Read more
Journal Reference: Kuniyoshi L Sakai, Yoshiaki Oshiba, Reiya Horisawa, Takeaki Miyamae, Ryugo Hayano. Music-Experience-Related and Musical-Error-Dependent Activations in the Brain. Cerebral Cortex, 2021; DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab478 Professor Kuniyoshi L. Sakai from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo is a keen musician, as are many of his colleagues. Although Sakai has … Read more
Journal Reference: Alice M. Clement, Richard Cloutier, Jing Lu, Egon Perilli, Anton Maksimenko, John Long. A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography. PeerJ, 2021; 9: e12597 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12597 Supported by the Australian Research Council and international experts, the new research led by … Read more
Journal Reference: Barış Genç, Javier H. Jara, Santana S. Sanchez, Amiko K. B. Lagrimas, Öge Gözütok, Nuran Koçak, Yongling Zhu, P. Hande Özdinler. Upper motor neurons are a target for gene therapy and UCHL1 is necessary and sufficient to improve cellular integrity of diseased upper motor neurons. Gene Therapy, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41434-021-00303-4 A new Northwestern … Read more
Journal Reference: Javier J. How, Saket Navlakha, Sreekanth H. Chalasani. Neural network features distinguish chemosensory stimuli in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLOS Computational Biology, 2021; 17 (11): e1009591 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009591 “We found some unexpected things when we started looking at the effect of these sensory stimuli on individual cells and connections within the worms’ brains,” says Chalasani, … Read more