Modified rabies virus neural tracer used to-cell by cell-how psilocybin alters brain connectivity.This makes it possible to see which brain regions gain connections, lose them, and how changes depend on what the brain is doing during the experience itself
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Noise-resistant phase imaging would enable label-free and quantitative characterization of living specimens, such as cell cultures, and can find applications in neurobiology or cancer research
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During sleep the brain's reaction to sound remains strong, but one critical feature of conscious attention disappears: Sleep provides a major key to the mystery of consciousness sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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