Study of rats navigating a maze offers new insights into neurobiology of decision-making and imaginationIn a study of rats navigating a simple maze, neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered how the brain may generate such imagined future scenarios. The work provides a new grounding for understanding not only how the brain makes decisions but also how imagination works more broadly, the researchers say.
Study of Rats Navigating a Maze Provides New Insights into Neurobiology of Decision-Making and ImaginationIn a study of rats navigating a simple maze, neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered how the brain may generate such imagined future scenarios. The work provides a new grounding for understanding not only how the brain makes decisions but also how imagination works more broadly, the researchers say.
Study of Rats Navigating a Maze Provides New Insights Into Neurobiology of Decision-Making and ImaginationIn a study of rats navigating a simple maze, neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered how the brain may generate imagined future scenarios. The work provides a new grounding for understanding not only how the brain makes decisions but also how imagination works more broadly, the researchers say.
Widely Used Brain Organoids are ‘Confused’ and ‘Disorganized’ Compared to New Atlas of the Developing Human BrainWidely used organoid models fail to replicate even basic features of brain development and organization, much less the complex circuitry needed to model complex brain diseases or normal cognition.
Dementia-Related Language Symptoms Differ in Italian and English Speakers, Study Finds English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages.
Patients Can Influence Outcomes Despite a Genetic Diagnosis, Study SuggestsA physically and mentally active lifestyle confers resilience to frontotemporal dementia, even in people whose genetic profile makes the eventual development of the disease virtually inevitable.
UCSF postdoctoral researcher for the first time succeeded in keeping a diverse array of glioblastomas alive in the lab using brain organoids
Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley envisions how AI and virtual reality might heal the human mind.Scientists have documented the influence of information overload on attention, perception, memory, decision-making, and emotional regulation. But the same technologies contributing to the cognition crisis could help solve it, argues neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley.
When it does, what will it mean to be human?We are entering an era of brain-machine interfaces and genome-editing technology. When we can govern the very biology that makes us who we are, what will it mean to be human?