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Matt Angle, the founder and chief executive officer of Paradromics, also said the system was able to detect and tell the difference among signals the woman’s brain generated during different activitie... 1.000

👤 Matt Angle 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Artificial Intelligence , Neuroscience

Simplified: Paradromics CEO Matt Angle said the company's system can differentiate between brain signals for various communication-related activities.

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His lab and other researchers have also studied imagined speech representations in the brain and have enabled patients to produce spontaneous speech. 1.000

👤 Pam Belluck 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Research , Neuroscience

Simplified: Dr. Edward Chang's lab and other researchers have previously enabled patients to produce spontaneous speech using brain-computer interfaces.

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When scientists look at the brains of people who suffer from frontotemporal dementia, they find that the von Economo neurons are among the first cells to die. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Medicine , Neuroscience , Dementia

Simplified: In people with frontotemporal dementia, von Economo neurons are among the first brain cells to die.

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The human cells were still immature, Dr. Pașca’s team found, resembling the neurons inside the brain of a third-trimester fetus. 1.000

👤 Dr. Pașca’s team 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Developmental Biology

Simplified: Dr. Pașca’s team found that the transplanted human cells were immature, resembling neurons from a third-trimester fetus's brain.

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Dr. Pașca and his colleagues found that a lack of oxygen damaged the human neurons in the mice. 1.000

👤 Dr. Pașca and his colleagues 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Pathology

Simplified: Dr. Pașca's team found that a lack of oxygen damaged the transplanted human neurons in mice.

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And in tests of memory and other cognitive tasks, the mice with human brain cells fared about as well. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Cognitive Science , Animal testing

Simplified: In cognitive tests, mice with human brain cells performed about as well as ordinary mice.

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These cells, the scientists discovered, are a special type, known as von Economo neurons. 1.000

👤 The scientists 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Cell Biology

Simplified: Scientists discovered that some large human brain cells that grew in mice were a special type known as von Economo neurons.

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They only develop in large, social animals like whales, elephants and humans. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Biology

Simplified: Von Economo neurons only develop in large, social animals such as whales, elephants, and humans.

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“That’s a big proof of concept, saying it’s possible to create this kind of human-dominated cortex in a mouse,” said Hongkui Zeng, the director of brain science at the Allen Institute in Seattle, who... 1.000

👤 Hongkui Zeng 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Bioethics

Simplified: Hongkui Zeng of the Allen Institute said a study was a proof of concept that it is possible to create a human-dominated cortex in a mouse.

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The genetically altered mice had brains that were almost entirely missing the cortex. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Genetics , Animal testing

Simplified: Genetically altered mice used in a study had brains that were almost entirely missing the cortex.

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The scientists went on to create organoids made of cells of the human cortex. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Cell Biology

Simplified: Scientists created organoids from human cortex cells for an experiment.

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Those organoids were placed into the empty spaces in the brains of the engineered mice. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Animal testing

Simplified: Human cortex organoids were placed into empty spaces in the brains of engineered mice.

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From a few hundred thousand cells, the human neurons multiplied to as many as 4 million. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Cell Biology

Simplified: In the experiment, transplanted human neurons multiplied from a few hundred thousand to as many as 4 million cells.

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The mice were engineered without an immune system so that they wouldn’t reject human tissue. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Genetics , Immunology

Simplified: The mice in the study were engineered without an immune system to prevent rejection of human tissue.

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“It’s the part of the brain that results in our humanness,” said John Evans, a bioethicist at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study. 1.000

👤 John Evans 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Bioethics

Simplified: Bioethicist John Evans stated the cortex is the part of the brain that results in humanness.

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It enables our sophisticated use of language and other forms of higher-order thinking. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Biology

Simplified: The human cortex enables sophisticated use of language and other forms of higher-order thinking.

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“Neuropsychiatric disorders are largely disorders of circuits,” Dr. Pașca said. 1.000

👤 Dr. Sergiu Pașca 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Neuroscience

Simplified: Dr. Sergiu Pașca said that neuropsychiatric disorders are largely disorders of brain circuits.

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3 weeks ago
Our brains contain about 80 billion neurons, joined by trillions of connections into intricate circuits. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Neuroscience , Biology

Simplified: Human brains contain approximately 80 billion neurons.

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