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  1. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  2. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  3. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  4. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  5. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  6. Early unilateral auditory deprivation can cause lasting spatial #hearing deficits. @k_anbuhl &co show that unilateral #HearingLoss during development (but not adult-onset) impairs binaural #brainstem function & spatial hearing acuity in guinea pigs @PLOSBiology plos.io/46njw1P

  7. Slow amplitude fluctuations in sounds, critical for #SpeechRecognition, seem poorly represented in the #brainstem. This study shows that overlooked intricacies of #SpikeTiming represent these fluctuations, reconciling low-level neural processing with #perception @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3FJ4adI

  8. Finding a Master Immune System Controller

    'In a series of groundbreaking, elegant experiments ... a team led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Charles Zuker has found that one controller of the immune system actually lies elsewhere—in the brain. The researchers showed that a group of nerve cells in the brainstem acts like a master controller or rheostat, sending and receiving signals from vagal neurons in the body to either boost inflammation or dial it down. '
    ...
    'The first big question for Zuker’s group, therefore, was whether the brain really does respond to signals from the immune system. To find out, his team injected mice with a known immune stimulant, lipopolysaccharide, then searched the mouse brain to see if any specific areas were being activated by the signal. The quest was like “looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Medzhitov. But it worked. The researchers pinpointed an area of the brainstem called the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract. That was “extraordinarily exciting,” recalls Hao Jin, a postdoctoral fellow in Zuker’s lab who led these studies. Previous work by Zuker’s team had shown that this area of the brain received other body-brain signals up the vagus nerve highway. '

    hhmi.org/news/finding-master-i

    #immunology #neuroscience
    #inflammation #VagusNerve #brainstem

  9. Newly discovered group of #neurons in the #brainstem which receives information directly from the basal ganglia and controls the right-left circuit,” Eventually, this discovery may be able to help people suffering from #Parkinson’s disease.
    #Neuroscience # Brain #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2024/02/ns02222401.

  10. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD

  11. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD

  12. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD

  13. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD

  14. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD