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Just a brief round-up today.<\/p>\n
An fMRI study provided evidence of different regions involved in learning new verbs (left posterior temporal gyrus and left inferior frontal gyrus) and nouns (left fusiform gyrus) as well as a relationship between hippocampal activity and the efficiency of learning new nouns. This information could be of relevance to a number of conditions which involve disorders of language and memory. For more information on the study see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A study involving neural prosthetic devices in people provided evidence of the function of the beta and delta oscillations identified in the EEG. Based on their findings about the timing of the oscillations, the researchers concluded that the beta oscillations were strongly associated with anticipating commands for initiating movements. For more information see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Discover reports on some experimental evidence<\/a> to suggest that smells and sounds are perceived together as hybrid ’smounds’ – at least in a murine model. These conclusions are based on the activity of cells in the olfactory tubercle which respond not only to smells but also auditory tones presented alone or in combination with smells*.<\/p>\n Vaughan Bell has a good round-up of Spike Activity<\/a> where he looks at the recent findings on the XMR virus in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome amongst other studies.<\/p>\n Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor has been suggested as a possible therapeutic intervention in dementia. The authors of a new study reported on here<\/a> found that slow versus rapid application of BDNF to cell cultures had different effects and this is discussed further in the report.<\/p>\n * Since smells are closely related to taste it is tempting to speculate that this could even be relevant to Pavlovian conditioning if confirmed in other species.<\/p>\n Index<\/strong><\/p>\n You can find an index of the site here<\/a>. The page contains links to all of the articles in the blog in chronological order.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n You can follow \u2018The Amazing World of Psychiatry\u2019 Twitter by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a><\/p>\n Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to this post on Odiogo by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a> (there may be a small delay between publishing of the blog article and the availability of the podcast).<\/p>\n TAWOP Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n You can follow the TAWOP Channel on YouTube by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a><\/p>\n Responses<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have any comments, you can leave them below or alternatively e-mail justinmarley17@yahoo.co.uk<\/p>\n Disclaimer<\/strong><\/p>\n The comments made here represent the opinions of the author and do not represent the profession or any body\/organisation. The comments made here are not meant as a source of medical advice and those seeking medical advice are advised to consult with their own doctor. The author is not responsible for the contents of any external sites that are linked to in this blog.<\/p>\n Just a brief round-up today. An fMRI study provided evidence of different regions involved in learning new verbs (left posterior temporal gyrus and left inferior frontal gyrus) and nouns (left fusiform gyrus) as well as a relationship between hippocampal activity and the efficiency of learning new nouns. This information could be of relevance to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"