The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated into brain systems that control cognitive functions has remained a mystery.
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Finding unseen damage of traumatic brain injury
The soldier on the fringes of an explosion. The survivor of a car wreck. The football player who took yet another skull-rattling hit. Too often, only time can tell when a traumatic brain injury will leave lasting harm – there’s no good way to diagnose the damage.
Training can improve memory and increase brain activity in mild cognitive impairment
If someone has trouble remembering where the car keys or the cheese grater are, new research shows that a memory training strategy can help. Memory training can even re-engage the hippocampus, part of the brain critical for memory formation, the results suggest.
WU researchers breakthrough with minimally conscious state patients
(Medical Xpress) — Researchers from Western University have utilized their own game-changing technology previously developed for use with patients in a vegetative state to assess a more prevalent group of brain-injured patients, those in the minimally conscious state (MCS). Their findings were released today in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see
If you are looking for a particular object say a yellow pencil on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it?