Scientists have found a way to improve the intellectual capacity of man, and also greatly facilitate the search for effective methods of treatment of mental illness with the help of certain nerve cells located in the brain.
it Turned out that only a small part of the 89 billion nerve cells in the body able to ensure our ability to adapt to changing circumstances. As reported by TASS, citing a study by researchers from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee USA, assisted by colleagues in the Center for vision research York University in Ontario, discovered cells are the mechanism, activating the cerebral cortex.
According to the head of the project, associate Professor of psychology and computer science University Thilo Womelsdorf, they are the toggle switch, switching the efforts of the brain to overcome the stimulus to find a better way of answering it.
– in the absence of such a mechanism much energy it will take to overcome the negative effects on the brain, until the destruction of the accumulated neural connections, he said.
So, the nerve cells responsible for playing musical instruments, according to the study, located next to the adaptogenic neurons. If you know their location, you can quickly find treatment in case of mental illness. But from the cells that are below the cortical layer, as decided by the researchers, depend on human cognitive abilities. The staff of the Centre for vision research York University has developed simulation techniques, allowing to trace the activity of these areas.
– Identified neurons, it seems, help other neural circuits to overcome the difficulties and strengthen the signals of new incoming information, – said one of the participants in the development of Kianoush Banai Boroujeni.
the Discovery, made by American and canadian scientists could lead to a revolution in neuroscience, so as to affect nerve cell using molecular and genetic tools is possible only when you know, where are the neurons.
