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In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

The only way to test an animal for rabies is on their brain tissue, which can not be done in a live animal.

The fact that they could do so suggests that the ability to think in an abstract way may be more common in nature than we might expect, and not just restricted to humans and a handful of animals with big brains.

Single modules of the brains, for example, are wired in a similar way, and both animal groups have a prefrontal brain structure that controls similar executive functions.

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

The discoveries that the brain has defined systems that track an animal's whereabouts so it knows where it is (and where it was) as it makes its way about the world were honored on Oct..

The new work suggests that the way our brain develops is more like what happens in other animals than previously thought.

This not only expanded the size of the basal progenitor population in a way somewhat reminiscent to what is seen in large - brained animals.

Ultrasound focused within the skull can trigger movement in animals — could it give us a safe way to plug technology into the brain?

The strength of the paper, he says, is that the large number of animals involved provide a good sample of the different ways in which chimp brains age.

It all originates in a part of the brain stem called the medulla oblongata, which is present in countless other animals that sneeze pretty much the same way we do.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

I'm interested in all the ways nervous systems can influence the natural and sexual selection process that shapes animal bodies and brains.

Seeing through objects may seem like something straight out of a comic book, but researchers have found a way to make entire animals transparent — from their brains to their bones.

In the study, Bruce Hope, from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar way.

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

«This is the first demonstration of a shared brain - machine interface, a paradigm that has been translated successfully over the past decades from studies in animals all the way to clinical applications,» said Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph. D., co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke University School of Medicine and principal investigator for the study.

Finally, the study provides an example of a highly integrative approach to understanding brain function at multiple scales, «linking genes and gene networks to the properties of single neurons and populations of neuron subtypes, all the way up to the level of animal behaviors,» said Okaty.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

Not only is it impossible to project any mental experience onto these animals, but their response was also «still overlaid by the anesthesiology,» he says; this sedation likely influenced their brain response in unpredictable ways.

«Although studies in animals have suggested it, this study indicates that markers of inflammation in a mom's blood can be associated with short - and long - term changes in their child's brain, which will now allow us to identify ways to prevent those effects and ensure children develop in the healthiest possible way beginning in the womb and continuing through later childhood and beyond.»

«Evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on,» Stocco said.

Nevertheless, it is clear that olfaction is important in flavor perception, and it has been argued that with a greater amount of the brain devoted to olfaction, humans may in many ways equal other animals in their olfactory abilities (14).

Many animals interact with the world in certain complicated ways that don't rely on their brains.

«We have this romantic notion that big brains are good, but most animals don't work this way,» said Ken Cheng, who studies animal behavior and information processing at Macquarie University in Australia.

As this work was done with animal models, we can't yet say whether the stem cells would thrive in the same way in a human brain.

After analyzing the MRI imaging of the dogs» brain activity as the animals listened to each combination, the researchers found that the dogs — regardless of intonation — responded to the words of praise with heightened brain activity in the left hemisphere in a way similar to humans.

Because it can no longer trust its sweet meter to gauge how many calories are on the way, the brain starts to behave as if the animal is starving.

Now armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting - edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years ago.

That in turn should change the way the animal behaves and the rest of the brain processes information.

He's one of the world's leading researchers in neurobiology, which looks at the brain and nervous system of animals and humans in terms of its anatomy and physiology (i.e., its cells and tissues, and the way they function and are organized).

The mini brains are derived from human stem cells thus, may be used instead of animal models to test new drugs, revolutionizing the way lab experiments work.

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

Determining laterality — or which side of the brain dominates the other — could change the way domestic animals are bred, raised, trained and used, including predicting which puppies will make the best service dogs, and which racehorses will race better on left - or right - curving tracks.

Veterinary pathologists have found that animal fat and cholesterol rarely cause clogged hearts and brain arteries in dogs or cats the way these saturated fats do in humans.

The only way to test for rabies is by examination of the brain tissue of a dead animal.

The only way rabies can be diagnosed with 100 % certainty is through a dFA test on the animal's brain tissue, and for this, the animal has to be euthanized.

The brain becomes super-charged on inappropriate diets - sort of like kids on sugar - and if an animal leans toward being anxious, they are even more likely to behave that way on «sugar».

The tiny - brained animals thwart his devices, but he finds a way to keep the challenges coming.

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... and then quotes Jared Diamond, with a wonderful quote, I think [we humans] did go wrong, not «if» we went wrong, but we did go wrong, in our trajectory up the evolutionary «volcano» of life, and where we went wrong, I think, well, it was not our fault exactly, but the way we evolved, the DNA we carried, the way our brains grew and the way we are «wired» as beasts (animals)-- we often forget we are mere beasts, part of the animal kingdom here — the way we developed meant that our IQ and our visionary acumen and our creative skills led to our developing a seemingly — I say «seemingly» — unstoppable greed for more and more and more and more.

Studying animals — for example, how they perceive time and the way they form memory — not only helps scientists learn more about animals, it helps them learn more about humans and how our brains work compared to animals.