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When Specialization Creates Exclusion: The Dangers of a Compartmentalized Medical System
Drawing on real-world cases, the study highlights the harms of compartmentalized healthcare and proposes three essential reforms
How comprehensive is our healthcare system, and who is being left behind? In this study, The University o… More
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General Anesthesia in Early Infancy Accelerates Brain Development
The study confirms a previous hypothesis established in animal models that early (before 2 months) and prolonged or repeated exposure to general anesthesia accelerates brain trajectories which may have consequences later in life.
New … More
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Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages
Tokyo, Japan - There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.
Baby talk is more formally referred to a… More
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Supporting cognitive flexibility in autistic individuals, Exploring noninvasive brain stimulation as a tool to enhance cognitive adaptability
BDNS apparatus. BDNS incorporates electroencephalography and transcranial magnetic stimulation, which enable the monitoring of brain-state dynamics in a real-time manner and the triggering of neural stimulation only when the brai… More -
AI overconfidence mirrors human brain condition A similarity between language models and aphasia points to diagnoses for both
A similarity between language models and aphasia points to diagnoses for bothAgents, chatbots and other tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in everyday life by many. So-called large language model (LLM)-… More
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Social environment as key to addressing the gender gap in teenage depression
Tokyo, Japan- Emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression are about 3-fold more common in adult women than in adult men. Biological and neurogenetic considerations aside, these gender differences have commonly been ascribed t… More
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Sex Differences in the Brain Deciphered from Stress Responses --Female and Male Differences in the Effects of Early Stress on Brain Development and Brain Function--
*This article is reprinted from School of Science, The University of Tokyo.
Summary
A research group led by Professor Kazuo Emoto of the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo and Senior Staff Akira Uematsu of the National Ins… More
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Branching channel: A building block for tree-structured representations in the brain
Tree structures have been widely used to model intelligent behavior, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and language processing. However, whether our brain uses tree-structured representations is still controversial. In particu… More
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Separating signal from noise in the brain
Separating signal from noise in the brainUnderstanding how primate neural mechanism distinguishes between spontaneous and stimulus-related activity
When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of “noise,” which is spon… More -
Early Life Stress Shapes Attention Deficits in Male (But Not Female) Mice [Hensch Lab]
Please see the original article on the website of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, [here].… More
