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    How does the brain think?
    Joseph Shavit
    • 5 days ago

    How does the brain think?

    Our brains have billions of highly calibrated nerve cells or neurons, and each neuron has thousands of connections to other neurons.
    Injectable therapy repairs spinal cord injuries and reverses paralysis
    Joseph Shavit
    • Jun 4

    Injectable therapy repairs spinal cord injuries and reverses paralysis

    Researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair spinal cord tissue.
    Designer neurons offer new hope for treatment of Parkinson’s disease
    Joseph Shavit
    • May 12

    Designer neurons offer new hope for treatment of Parkinson’s disease

    The most obvious symptoms of Parkinson’s disease arise after the illness damages a specific class of neuron located in the midbrain.
    How does the brain make memories?
    Joseph Shavit
    • Mar 10

    How does the brain make memories?

    In a Cedars-Sinai study, researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience.
    The sound of vision: Sound can stimulate blind retina to see again
    Joseph Shavit
    • Mar 10

    The sound of vision: Sound can stimulate blind retina to see again

    Activating neurons by ultrasound is a step towards a non-invasive retinal prosthesis that works without invasive eye surgeries.
    Single test for over 50 genetic diseases will cut diagnosis from decades to days
    Joseph Shavit
    • Mar 6

    Single test for over 50 genetic diseases will cut diagnosis from decades to days

    The diseases covered by the test belong to a class of over 50 diseases caused by unusually-long repetitive DNA sequences in a person’s genes
    MIT researchers uncover how dendrites help brain neurons perform complex calculations
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 19

    MIT researchers uncover how dendrites help brain neurons perform complex calculations

    Researchers demonstrated how dendrites help neurons perform computations on information that comes in from other parts of the brain.
    "Math neurons" identified in the human brain
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 14

    "Math neurons" identified in the human brain

    The findings indicate that some of the neurons detected are active exclusively during additions, while others are active during subtractions

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