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Imagine microglia as the superheroes safeguarding your brain. These immune cells, known as microglia, have a crucial role in age-related neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). They respond to damage, regulate inflammation, and clean up harmful substances in the central nervous system. One of their powerful abilities is autophagy, where they act like molecular garbage disposals, breaking down […]
Imagine you’re hosting a talent show and you need to determine the best singer. You decide to use a fancy machine-learning algorithm to analyze the contestants’ brain activity while they imagine singing (mental motor imagery – MI). However, you’re faced with a challenge – there’s no consensus among scientists on how to best analyze the […]
Imagine a vast library where scientists can securely store, analyze, and share their valuable neuroscience data. That’s exactly what the Image and Data Archive (IDA) at the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) offers to researchers. Just like a well-organized library, LONI’s IDA provides tools and resources for managing and exploring diverse neuroimaging data. It serves […]
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