Tag: brain

New finding may contribute to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Bar-Ilan University researchers move a step closer to understanding how the brain processes multiple conversations at once.

Hebrew University research successfully produces genetically engineered synapses circumventing neural damage.

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The idea of efficient deep learning algorithms based on the very slow brain's dynamics offers an opportunity to implement a new class of advanced artificial intelligence based on fast computers.

This new technique provides biological readouts of brain tissue—the ability to see what’s going on on a molecular level, and to direct a course of treatment accordingly.

The blood-brain barrier acts as a gatekeeper by blocking toxins and other foreign substances in the bloodstream from entering brain tissue and damaging it. It also can prevent potentially therapeutic drugs from reaching the brain.

“A worm uses only two neural cells to perform this critical calculation. Imagine what we humans should be able to do with our 100 billion neural cells.”

The researchers hope to find early markers that will help in the diagnosis -- and ultimately, the treatment -- of autism at a younger age.

Some say that the cortex is what makes us human.

Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University of the Negev have discovered an earlier way to diagnose brain damage.