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  • Study methodology. Patients implanted with electrocorticography arrays completed a 3D center-out reaching task. A, Electrode locations were based upon the clinical requirements of each patient and were localized to an atlas brain for display. B, Patients were seated in the semirecumbent position and completed reaching movements from the center to the corners of a 50 cm physical cube based upon cues from LED lights located at each target while hand positions and ECoG signals were simultaneously recorded. Each patient was implanted with electrodes in a single cortical hemisphere and performed the task with the arm contralateral (C) and ipsilateral (D) to the electrode array in separate recording sessions.
    Oct 09, 2018
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    Research & Journals , SfN News
    Half the Brain Encodes Both Arm Movements
    Individual arm movements are represented by neural activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, according to a study of epilepsy patients.
  • Oct 06, 2018
    News from SfN
    Advocacy , Research & Journals , SfN News
    U.S. Senate Passes Landmark Opioids Legislation
    Week of Oct. 1, 2018: Read the Latest Advocacy and Science News
  • Learning to See Friendly Faces in Different Places
    Oct 02, 2018
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    Research & Journals , SfN News
    Learning to See Friendly Faces in Different Places
    Study demonstrates how the brain learns to recognize an individual face regardless of where it appears in space.
  • A study of teenage twins teases apart the influence of genetic and environmental factors on brain activity during sleep.
    Sep 25, 2018
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    How Nature, Nurture Shape the Sleeping Brain
    A study of teenage twins teases apart the influence of genetic and environmental factors on brain activity during sleep.
  • Characterizing Pig Hippocampus Could Improve Translational Neuroscience
    Sep 18, 2018
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    Research & Journals , Animal Research , SfN News
    Characterizing Pig Hippocampus Could Improve Translational Neuroscience
    Study establishes the pig as promising preclinical research model for hippocampal-dependent human memory disorders.
  • Immune Cells Destroy Healthy Brain Connections, Diminish Cognitive Function in Obese Mice
    Sep 11, 2018
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    Research & Journals , Animal Research , SfN News
    Immune Cells Destroy Healthy Brain Connections, Diminish Cognitive Function in Obese Mice
    Obesity may drive microglia into a synapse-eating frenzy that leads to cognitive impairment.
  • Overview of the two pain modulation tasks. The temperature, number and duration of moderately painful stimuli, as well as the timing of cues, stimuli and VASs were kept the same across tasks to facilitate comparison. To avoid skin sensitization while keeping experiments brief, two thermodes were used to deliver stimuli. A, In the mental imagery task, participants imagined scenarios in which the moderate heat-pain stimuli would either be pleasant (i.e., useful to alleviate hypothermia) or noxious (i.e., a standard, potentially harmful source of heat such as a pain device or a clothes iron). Visual cues displaying the words “different” (target: pleasant imagery) or “device” (comparison imagery) were presented 9 s before the onset of each heat stimulus, instructing participants to start imagining. B, In the relative relief task, visual cues displaying the word “Wait” were presented 9 s before each heat stimulus to induce expectation of intense pain (Intense run, text on red background) or non-painful warm stimuli (Warm run, text displayed on a blue background). Before task onset, participants were informed that the heat stimulus following the initial visual cue would “most likely” be the cued stimulus, the onset of which was then indicated by a cue reading “Feel” (same color background). However, when the second cue was an arrow pointing downward or upward, it indicated the delivery of a modified stimulus. Unbeknownst to participants, the temperature used then was always the one calibrated to induce moderate pain. In the Intense run, the downward pointing arrow indicated a lower temperature stimulus than expected, thus constituting a relative relief cue. In the comparison run, the upward pointing arrow indicated a higher temperature stimulus. The target and comparison stimuli were thus matched for expected and actual likelihood as well as for temperature, duration, and order of appearance.
    Sep 11, 2018
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    Research & Journals , SfN News
    Mental Imagery Manages Pain Independent of Opioid System
    Study supports clinical use of mental imagery techniques in conjunction with pain-relieving drugs.
  • Improving experimental design and statistical analyses alone will not solve the reproducibility crisis in science, argues Ray Dingledine in a societal impact article published in eNeuro. Repeating classic behavioral economics experiments with graduate- to senior-level researchers, the author finds scientists of all career stages are subject to the same biases as undergraduates when interpreting data.
    Sep 05, 2018
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    Research & Journals , SfN News
    Jumping to Scientific Conclusions Challenges Biomedical Research
    Scientists are subject to same biases as undergraduates when interpreting data, finds a survey of graduate- to senior-level researchers.
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    Sep 04, 2018
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    BrainFacts.org Welcomes New Editor-in-Chief Richard Wingate
    Richard Wingate, DPhil, is a principal investigator at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Reader and head of anatomy at King’s College London
  • Aug 14, 2018
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    U.S. Health Officials Eliminate Special Regulations for Gene Therapy Experiments
    Week of Aug. 13, 2018: Read the Latest Advocacy and Science News
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