Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can experience severe side effects that persist long after treatments end. A new study has found a novel pathway for understanding why these debilitating conditions happen — and why scientists should focus on ‘all of the possible neural processes that deliver sensory or motor problems to a patient’s brain’ and not just those that occur away from the center of the body.
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Neural circuit that drives physical responses to emotional stress found
May 4, 2020By
Researchers have discovered a neural circuit that drives physical responses to emotional stress. Emotional stress signals are processed in the ”emotion” circuits and integrated in the DP/DTT. The integrated signals are transmitted to the hypothalamus which then drives a variety of physical responses through circuits that control ”body” functions. The discovered ”mind-body” connection constitutes a key part of the stress circuit in the brain.
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Deep neural networks uncover what the brain likes to see
November 5, 2019By
Researchers built deep artificial neural networks that can accurately predict the neural responses produced by a biological brain to arbitrary visual stimuli. These networks can be thought of as a ‘virtual avatar’ of a population of biological neurons, which can be used to dissect the neural mechanisms of sensation.
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