Human voices convey meaning and emphasis by changing pitch. Now, scientists at University of California, San Francisco believe they have found the brain area that makes this possible.
Scientists increasingly believe home sapiens achieved language not only by evolving a sophisticated larynx, or voice box, but also by developing the neurological capacity to use it in a variety of ways.
Dye injected into a damaged area of a mouse brain seven weeks post-stroke spreads past the glial scar barrier. Photo courtesy Kristian Doyle, Ph.D. / University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
For stroke survivors, brain injury doesn’t always stop when the stroke has passed. Now, researchers at University of Arizona and Stanford University School of Medicine have moved one step closer to understanding why.
Spatial maps for (from top) the default mode network, frontoparietal network and motor network (image courtesy Gene Alexander of University of Arizona).
The book The Runner’s Brain told runners how their minds could change their running. Now a University of Arizona study says the reverse might be true as well.
Using functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI), they found significant differences in areas that are active when the brain is at rest. Possibly, such networks could play a key role in the effects of aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
New findings by the Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, point to a surprising pattern in the brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and deadly type of gliomas.
GBMs are aggressive, invasive and so genetically and structurally complex that advanced, targeted therapies have struggled to find vulnerabilities to attack.
Most people who are termed functionally or legally blind can see something, even if it is only changes in light intensity. The totally blind, conversely, see nothing; but does that mean their eyes cannot perceive light? The answer might surprise you.
