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...just so impressed by the work of everyone I talked to, so it was a major surprise to me to know that I’d been singled out for anything,” said Bear, whose research on neurons and gene expression has been published in the scientific journals Nature and Neuron...
...write that men and women process emotions differently. How? The mirror-neuron system [MNS] allows us to [see a facial expression] and know what that person is feeling. When we are looking at an infant or another person we care about, women will resonate with that feeling a lot longer than men. This is not to say that men don't do this. They do. They start out very quickly in the MNS and get a quick flash of what's going on. Then they switch into another system called the temporal parietal junction system, which allows them to start...
...study from the lab of New York University (NYU) cognitive neuroscientist Lila Davachi finds similar evidence that the brain at rest, even while remaining awake, is conducting meaningful activity. "Your brain is doing work for you even when you're resting," says Davachi, who just published a study in Neuron showing that certain kinds of brain activity actually increase during waking rest and are correlated with better memory consolidation. "Taking a rest may actually contribute to your success at work or school," she adds. (Comment on this story...
...time at RIKEN, Barth focused on two main experiments: one involved recording neuron firings of finches who are awake, moving, and singing; the other involved playing songs to anesthetized finches and analyzing for neural activity patterns...
This isn't the first time someone has challenged the clarity of Britain's assisted-suicide law. In a similar case eight years ago, Diane Pretty, who had motor neuron disease, wanted to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her die at home or accompanied her to an assisted-suicide clinic abroad. But the court rejected her request for clarification, and her illness took her life...