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NEWS ABOUT: cortex

cortex stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - A functional artificial brain could be built within the next decade, leading scientist and brain-builder Henry Markram told a tech conference. Markram, who leads a project seeking to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from lab data, says his team has already duplicated parts of the rat brain, the BBC reports.... More »

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technology • brain • neurology • neurons • cortex • supercomputer • Henry Markram

Chronic Pain Rewires the Brain

Researchers find suffering constant pain can cause permanent changes

Feb 6, 08 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Researchers studying the brains of people suffering from chronic pain have found that  an area of their cortex is permanently active when it should sometimes deactivate, Reuters reports. That part of the brain, usually associated with emotion, stays on "full throttle" at all times. Researchers say this could explain... More »

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depression • chronic pain • brain • neuroscience • neurology • insomnia • anxiety • neurons • cortex • sleeplessness

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