Daily exercise boosts brain power
Learning, memory, and brain repair depend on the ability of our neurons to change with experience says a new study.
Dec 08, 2015, 16:05 PM IST
High-fat diet also bad for brain
New YorkA high-fat diet also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to become sedentary and start consuming the connections between our neurons, a new study has found.
Nov 30, 2015, 00:12 AM IST
Umbilical cells help eye's neurons connect
Cells isolated from human umbilical cord tissue produce molecules that help retinal neurons from the eyes of rats grow, connect and survive, a new study reveals.
Nov 28, 2015, 23:56 PM IST
How brain can enhance neuron connections
When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons. Now, neuroscientists have discovered a novel mechanism that contributes to the strengthening of these connections, called synapses.
Nov 22, 2015, 18:34 PM IST
New network of artificial neurons can learn human language
Researchers have developed a new cognitive model, made up of two million interconnected artificial neurons, which can learn to communicate using human language.
Nov 15, 2015, 16:26 PM IST
Revealed! Men's brains hardwired to prefer sex over food
Neurons in male brains are programmed to prioritise sex over the desire to eat food, a study has found.
Oct 17, 2015, 23:07 PM IST
Digitally building a piece of brain
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, have been trying to digitally reconstruct a section of juvenile rat brain.
Oct 09, 2015, 20:51 PM IST
One neuron may have over 1,000 mutations
A new research has found that a single neuron in a normal adult brain has more than a thousand genetic mutations.
Oct 05, 2015, 11:39 AM IST
