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Overlooked contributions from astrocytes might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...
Microscopic movies capture brain proteins in action, revealing new insight into shapes and functions
Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to carting protein instructions to disposing of cellular garbage. These highways ...
Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible
Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? – Amreen, age 15, New Delhi, India The concept, cool ...
Phys.org28d
Open-access AI tool makes biomedical image analysis accessible to non-experts
BiaPy is used to automatically detect each cell in these large-scale images, even in densely populated areas of the brain ... dimensional positions. As an open-access tool, BiaPy is available ...
Hindustan Times5mon
IIT Madras releases detailed 3D high-resolution images of human fetal brain
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has released detailed 3D High-Resolution images ... Brain Centre, IIT Madras. This Data Set, termed ‘DHARANI’, is available as open source ...
Snopes.com6mon
Image Shows Alcohol's Effect on the Brain?
An image allegedly showing the effects of alcohol on the brain is circulating on social media. The image features two brains — one labeled "drinker's brain" and the other a "nondrinker's brain." ...
BMJ7mon
Developing blood-brain barrier arterial spin labelling as a non-invasive early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease (DEBBIE-AD): a prospective observational multicohort study ...
12 The University of Auckland School of Psychology, Auckland, New Zealand 13 The University of Auckland Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Auckland, New Zealand Introduction Loss of ...
Medical News Today7mon
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may protect brain health, several studies show
Share on Pinterest Are GLP-1 drugs good for brain health? Accumulating evidence seems to suggest so. Image credit: Popartic/Getty Images. GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide ...
IEEE9mon
Brain Tumor Detection Based on Deep Features Concatenation and Machine Learning Classifiers With Genetic Selection
Utilizing transfer learning, multiple pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks namely VGG-16, Inception V3, ResNet-101, and DenseNet- 201 are used to extract deep features from brain MRI images ...
ExtremeTech9mon
MIT Scientists 'Detangle' the Brain With New Open-Source AI
as well as ease of use and access to this brain mapping challenge." Ultimately, the team's goal is to construct a "networked brain atlas," a detailed map of the human brain that can help relate ...
Quanta Magazine9mon
What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images
Then, the presenter asked the crowd to open their eyes and ... in the connections between brain regions involved in vision, memory and decision-making could explain variations in people’s ability to ...