Questions tagged [neuroscience]
For questions on the structure and function of the nervous system.
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What are the neurological differences between varying types of love?
It stands to reason that the biochemical cascade involved when a person experiences love, gives a feeling of well-being and drive.
Studies in neuroscience have involved chemicals that are present ...
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Supplementary Motor Area or Juxtapositional Lobule Cortex
Harvard-Oxford Cortical Structural Atlas now calls the 'Supplementary Motor Area' the 'Juxtapositional Lobule Cortex (formerly Supplementary Motor Cortex)'. I've looked for papers that explain the ...
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Does testosterone level cause more sexual dream content?
I have long been interested in dreaming, including how dream content can shed some light on brain chemistry.
I did a search on the subject of testosterone levels altering dream content and see some ...
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Are there synapses on other neuron terminals in human brain like in Aplysia
I am referring to Eric Kandel and his experiment on Aplysia where he shows that synapses between a pair of neurons can be modulated by means of a third neuron that synapses onto the terminals of the ...
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Long term effect of masturbation on Estrogen receptors
I was writing an article on masturbation and was doing some net based research. I saw on a paper (Phillips-Farfán et al. 2007) that frequent masturbation increases estrogen receptors in the brain.
My ...
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Do neurons involved in reflex movements process information or they just transmit a signal?
According to Reflex
A reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus. A reflex is made possible by neural pathways called reflex arcs which ...
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How are tactile pleasure and pain differentiated in the somatosensory cortex?
A recent question here asked about (mostly) how pain and pleasure are differentiated in pathways involving reward/aversion cues. But there was some confusion as to what the question really wanted to ...
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Is there a tangible benefit of synchronising the sample clock to the laser pulses in a resonant scanning two-photon microscope?
NI data acquisition cards offer a possibility of synchronising data acquisition with the pulses of a 80 MHz Ti:Sapphire laser. This supposedly helps improve the signal to noise ratio, since the true ...
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How does the hippocampus and the “Papez” circuit form a memory?
It is admitted the hippocampus is necessary to the formation of new long term memories. At first, information goes back and forth between various parts of the cortex and the hippocampus. That's how a ...
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How are psychological bio-markers discovered?
Recently, this paper [1] claiming to be able to distinguish bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder via a urine sample has come to my attention.
Despite reading the paper, I'm unable to ...
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Is movement/activity level related to serotonin availability or reuptake rates in the brain?
I'm aware of this research article that explores the relationship between motion and serotonin systems: 5-HT and motor control: a hypothesis.
Based on the article above, it seems to me that a "very ...
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What are the brain regions related to tinnitus shown in this figure?
I am interested in learning about the neural mechanisms behind tinnitus, and was wondering if someone could help me to name the parts of the brain on this image that show increased activity in ...
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What neurotransmitters can be suppressed/promoted by tDCS
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to modify suppression in the visual cortex and GABA suppression in motor control.
As of now, the exact neurobiological mechanism that ...
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What is the neurobiological basis of Spearman general factor of intelligence?
I found here a brief intro to genetic factor of human intelligence:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1036362
Also there is known that gyrus hipocampii is basis of STM which have role in general ...
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Is dominance a hypothetical construct or is it based in neurobiology?
There are several personality tests which have dominance as trait or type as result.
In addition to this question: How to measure dominance and submissiveness?
How are dominant types constructed in ...
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Do I report all anatomical regions in a large significant cluster identified in functional connectivity seed-to-voxel analysis?
I am conducting a resting-state functional connectivity seed-to-voxel analysis on the 25 participants from the NYC test-retest dataset using the CONN toolbox with the Posterior Cingulate Cortex of the ...
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What activity causes the highest level of brain-activity?
I expect balancing on a tightrope and juggling apples while listening to Mozart would trigger more brain activity than say playing chess, and while there are many ways to measure/define brain activity,...
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The same neuron sometimes released different neurotransmitters, so how does this affect our interpretation of computational models?
Most studies I see compare firing rate with some observed variable (stimuli or behavior). However, they treat all spikes the same. But neurons sometimes release different neurotransmitters depending ...
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How common is it to include unmedicated patients in first episode psychosis (or any type of psychosis) studies?
Is anyone familiar with this open access study?
Radua, J., Borgwardt, S., Crescini, A., Mataix-Cols, D., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., McGuire, P. K., & Fusar-Poli, P. (2012). Multimodal meta-analysis of ...
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Will studying formal logic improves logical reasoning?
Reason for asking question:
I am looking to see if there is any good empirical evidence or study that shows or suggests that studying former logic or maybe informal logic would actually improve ...
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Why are there still left handed people?
About 90% of all people are right handed. About 10% of people are left handed. So why has left handedness persisted for so long throughout human evolution? Why does it stick around? What are the best ...
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ADHD and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)
The cingulate cortex plays a significant role in mediating cognitive influences on emotion (Stevens, Hurley, & Taber, 2011).
Lower-than-normal activations within cingulate cortex have been ...
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Why do only about 20% of the people with a heart attack report a near-death experience?
It has been shown that only around 20% of people who get a cardiac arrest and revived could tell something about a near death experience (NDE). But if an NDE is considered to be something with the ...
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What neural mechanism explains the phenomenon that bad memories fade faster than good ones?
Several studies have suggested that negative memories fade faster than positive memories: Walker, Vogl and Thompson (1997) had the subjects kept dairy during a 3-month period, and rated the events on ...
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How separate are the left and right hemisphere vasculature?
It appears as if there are communicating arteries between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, but it is difficult to grasp the larger picture.
To what extent is the blood supply to each ...
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Why does the unilateral 6-OHDA lesion Parkinson's model cause ipsilateral rotations?
As far as I understand, the loss of dopaminergic neurons should hinder movement in the contralateral side of the body, resulting in contralateral rotations when the animal tries to move forward.
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Physiological mapping of frustration
What physiological changes are seen in the brain when a person is experiencing frustration? What effects do these changes have on learning?
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I'm trying to figure out an ...
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What is the relationship between topographic maps and sensory memory?
Sensory maps are defined functionally: they exist for a certain time window, are overwritten quickly, are generally inaccessible to introspective control.
Topographic maps are defined biologically: ...
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Is there a neurological explanation of acquired tastes?
People acquire tastes through exposure. This includes the "mere exposure effect" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect). Also, music heard more often are more likely to sound ...
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Neuron specialization in the Visual System
Can someone point me to a good resource to explain how neurons in the visual system become sensitive to visual features? I understand that specific neurons fire for things like direction of motion, ...
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Alternative hypotheses to Hebb's rule
I was reading on wikipedia that there are exceptions to the hebbian rule, and I was curious about the possibilities of other hypotheses of how learning occur in the brain. So I would like to know:
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Why does mental work cause fatigue?
In Mental Fatigue: Costs and Benefits, Boksem and Tops advance that mental fatigue results from the brain's decision to save energy:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Understanding the transition from integrated form to ODE form of neuron models
I'm trying to convert a fairly complicated neuron model from integrated form (a form of the spike response model) to ODE form for use in the BRIAN simulator.
The BRIAN simulator requires neuron/...
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Are memories stored as patterns of chemicals/emotions?
Lately, I (as someone with no experience or prior knowledge in the topic) have been thinking about...thinking. The part that intrigues me the most is memory. As a computer-y type person, I tend to ...
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Is there a structural difference between Nerve cells in the Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems
Do the actual nerve cells in the Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems have a different structure or chemical make up or are they the same thing just separate systems?
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What are the neuroscience research findings on the importance of breaks in cognitive function and specifically learning?
When I say breaks I mean breaks between periods of the same course, breaks between two distinct courses, single days of, weekends, couple days of, few days of, longer periods of holidays of duration ...
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What might be the daily experience of someone who does not have an orientation association area?
The orientation association area gives us a sense of our body in time and space.
What would it be like without this part of the brain assuming everything else works normally?
Can the brain separate ...
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Is it an issue to use a model for stimulus selection, when the same model is later tested against fMRI data based on those stimuli?
I am planning an fMRI experiment which looks at similarity of human brain activation when prompted with known words.
The goal of the experiment is to compare the similarity of activation with ...
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Inducing error-related negativity
Which tasks induce the strongest error-related negativity? I'm trying to build a classifier that measures EEG signals to detect when a subject observes an error being committed by another subject. It ...
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Task-based fMRI dataset with very simple task (e.g. view stripes)
For my Bachelor thesis I need an fMRI dataset in order to look for causal relationships. I want to be able to confirm my work, so the causal relationships should already be known. Therefore, ideally ...
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Is the phenomenom of “subjective consciousness” or “qualia” formally captured by any state-of-the-art Theoretical Model in Neuroscience?
Is the phenomenon of "subjective consciousness" or "qualia" formally captured or defined by any state-of-the-art Theoretical Model in Neuroscience? If so, can you share a brief summary of such ...
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Is Tinnitus a result of brain damage?
It is well known that loud noises can lead to hearing problems such as temporary hearing loss or tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and even permanent hearing loss. But this is the first time scientists ...
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Are there any practical implications for the purported neuroprotective effects of lamotrigine?
Lamotrigine is an antiepileptic drug used to treat seizures. Off-label, it is used to treat a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Judging from Google Scholar, lamotrigine continues to ...
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Task-based vs task-positive networks
Do the terms "task-positive network" and "task-based network" refer to the same thing, such as the Fronto-Parietal Control Network (FPCN), as distinct from the task-negative networks such as the ...
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Does increased motor development always occur at the expense of speech development, or vice versa?
It is often said that infants / toddlers* develop in a focused manner. I am specifically interested in the notion that a quick development of speech occurs at the expense of motor skill development ...
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Infants tend to look longer at novel stimuli than at repeated stimuli, is this true in adults?
I have recently read an article in which it is stated, that the researchers can discriminate if a baby knows an object, by looking at the length of time the baby looks at the object. Do adults also ...
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Neurotransmitter detection in the brain
How are the effects of drugs in the brain, in terms of neurotransmitters measured? For example, Selective Seretonin Reuptake Inhibitors are a class of anti-depressants. How was and is this type of ...
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Is the fight or flight response considered voluntarily or involuntarily?
I look in my rearview and see someone feet from me still speeding up and my heart rate feels like it doubles. It stayed like that for an hour. Had troubles concentrating and working well into the ...
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How does neurotransmitter distribution and usage vary thought the brain?
I understand that neurotransmitters are used to send signals between neurons in the brain and that some are used for rather specific functions. However, is the exact distribution/concentration/...
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Can microdialysis be made in Drosophila melanogaster?
Microdialysis is a common method to study the effects of drugs on specific mamal brains zones (mostly in rats), in order to study the it's interaction with the function of those specific areas that ...
