NYU Abu Dhabi researchers report a seed-sized, battery-free nerve stimulator injected through a standard needle and powered from outside the body. In preclinical tests it activated nerves in a living organism, though its effect on pain or movement disorders in patients has not been established.
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Washington University researchers found dopamine raised locusts' brain and feeding responses to odors while octopamine lowered them. Brain chemistry alone set how strongly the insects answered an unchanged smell, with the experimenters supplying the chemicals.
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Mount Sinai's 30-person pilot found an at-home magnetic headset beat a sham on long COVID cognition, with gains holding a month after treatment ended. Only 10 people were in the sham arm, so the result argues for a larger trial before anyone calls the headset a treatment.
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In a Nature study from the Allen Institute, the mouse locus coeruleus sorts its output by position, with cells high in the nucleus serving cortex and learning and cells low in it serving the brainstem and spinal cord.
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A mapping study in mice found that projections, gene expression and task activity in the locus coeruleus vary along the same spatial axes, with dorsal cortex-projecting cells tracking reward prediction error during learning.
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A modulator credited with both raising and lowering aggression in flies can now be probed one cell type at a time, some types as small as a pair of neurons, moving the story from chemical to cellular resolution.
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United Imaging and Tianjin University say uMR Shenguan decodes, modulates and measures in one system. The specifications that would let anyone check that are not in the announcement.
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