by Ingrid Fadelli | Nov 4, 2024 | Electronics & Semiconductors, TECHXPLORE
Reliably tracking and manipulating the mammalian nervous system in laboratory or clinical settings allows neuroscientists to test their hypotheses, which may in turn lead to new important discoveries. The most well-established and widely used technologies for studying...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Nov 4, 2024 | Genetics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Chemical changes to histones, the proteins that help to pack and organize DNA inside cells, play a key role in determining what genes will be consistently activated over the course of an animal or human’s life. Past studies have shed light on some chemical...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Nov 4, 2024 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience, Psychology & Psychiatry
Past neuroscience research has identified patterns in neural activity typically observed when humans are engaged in value-based decision-making. This is the process through which humans choose between options that could be linked to different costs and rewards,...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Nov 4, 2024 | Health Informatics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
A key objective of several neuroscience studies is to understand and model how the dynamics of distinct populations of neurons give rise to specific human and animal behaviors. Many existing methods for exploring the link between neural activity and behavior rely on...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Nov 4, 2024 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics, Superperconductivity
In recent years, quantum physicists and engineers have made significant strides toward the development of highly performing quantum computing systems. Realizing a quantum advantage over classical computing systems and enabling the stable operation of quantum devices,...
