Month: February 2022

Sleeping Two More Hours a Night May Boost Weight Loss

A new study published in peer-reviewed JAMA Internal Medicine found that sleeping longer helps reduce your caloric intake. The 80 participants in the research project were divided into two groups and assigned different sleep patterns. The group who slept for a longer number… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., […]

Published on February 17, 2022

Assessing the Reliability of Template-Based Clustering for Tractography in Healthy Human Adults

Tractography is a non-invasive technique to investigate the brain’s structural pathways (also referred to as tracts) that connect different brain regions. A commonly used approach for identifying tracts is with template-based clustering, where unsupervised clustering is first performed on a template in order to label corresponding tracts in unseen data. However, the reliability of this […]

Published on February 17, 2022

Postsynaptic Potential Energy as Determinant of Synaptic Plasticity

Metabolic energy can be used as a unifying principle to control neuronal activity. However, whether and how metabolic energy alone can determine the outcome of synaptic plasticity remains unclear. This study proposes a computational model of synaptic plasticity that is completely determined by energy. A simple quantitative relationship between synaptic plasticity and postsynaptic potential energy […]

Published on February 17, 2022