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Discovery Of New Cell May Be Key To Treating Incurable Neurological Diseases

Researchers at Ohio State and the University of Michigan discovered a new type of immune cell that not only rescues damaged nerve cells from death, but partially reverses nerve fiber damage.
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Researchers Discover ‘Spooky’ Similarity In How Brains and Computers See

A new paper in Current Biology details how neurons in area V4, the first stage specific to the brain’s object vision pathway, represent 3D shape fragments, not just the 2D shapes used to study V4 for the last 40 years.

Traveling brain waves help detect hard-to-see objects

Salk scientists discover patterns of neural waves in the awake brain that help detect objects.
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AGI-supported researchers discover gene pathways that regenerate neurons between the eye and the brain

A team of researchers has identified networks of genes that allow neurons to regenerate in animals like zebrafish.
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Live imaging method brings structural information to mapping of brain function

NEI-funded study shows coupling of structure and function at a sub-cellular level in visual areas of the mouse brain
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Real neurons are noisy. Can a retinal prosthetic figure that out?

The brain’s visual centers must be adept at filtering out noise from retinal cells to get to the true signal, and those filters have to constantly adapt. Prosthetic retinas are going to need this same filtering to succeed, NEI-funded research shows.
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LSU Health show nonharmful stress protects against disease in offspring

Researchers funded by the National Eye Institute show in a mammalian model the reprogramming of heritability to promote disease resilience in the next generation.
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Seeing the eye like never before

Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine detect minute changes in response to light in photoreceptors in a living eye.
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Scientists Identify the Cognitive Limitations that Hamper Our Decision-Making

How do we weigh risks? A new study from New York University and Peking University found that our cognitive limitations distort our notions of probability.
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Optical illusions explained in a fly’s eyes

Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain the phenomenon. Now Yale neuroscientists have found some answers in the eyes of flies.

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