Synaptic connectivity alone can reveal neuron types

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial ...
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NTAC identifies neuronal cell types using synaptic connectivity patterns alone (IMAGE)

Neuronal Type Assignment from Connectivity (NTAC) transforms a connectome into a graph, and detects neuron types using ...
Psychology Today

AI Predicts Active Brain Cell Types With High Accuracy

A major neuroscience breakthrough has been achieved with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning algorithm. In a study published this month in Cell, a multinational team of ...
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AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...
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AI uncovers hidden mechanisms of covert attention and emergent neuron types

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

Breakthrough research reveals how male and female brains develop differently

In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature ...
Medical Xpress

Study explores the cell-type-specific effects of aging and sex on human cortical neurons

Aging is known to have profound effects on the human brain, prompting changes in the composition of cells and the expression of genes, while also altering aspects of the interaction between genes and ...