A team of scientists
from Newcastle University has unfolded new secrets of human brain. The team
revealed what goes in brain while handling information.
A recently published report in ‘Neuron’ reveals the activity
of brain chemicals that help us to deal with relevant information. The team
funded by Wellcome Trust and BBSRC shared that we improve out intelligence and
perceptual abilities by altering the way how neurons respond to external
stimuli.
[“So can we cure mentally ill or retarded patients by working on this information?” – Topics: WhatSoEver]
The scientists said that these
changes affect the strength and working of neurons as well as increases the accuracy
of brain’s reaction or response over particular information.
The team revealed that the glutamate
coupling to NMDA receptors worked to affect the quality and accuracy of a
response. The study was made on a primate model to differentiate different mechanisms
of brain at the receptor level.
Alex Thiele, Professor of Visual
Neuroscience said, “When you communicate
with others, you can make yourself better heard by speaking louder or by
speaking more clearly. Neurons appear to do similar things when we're paying
attention. They send their message more intensely to their partners, which
compares to speaking louder. But more importantly, they also increase the
fidelity of their message, which compares to speaking more clearly.”
"Our earlier work has shown that attention is able to affect the
intensity of responses, in effect the loudness, by means of the brain chemical acetylcholine.
Now we have shown that the fidelity of the response is altered by a different
brain chemical system."
The research had the foundation of
their earlier studies and brought up huge revelations about how human work
deals with different type of information. Obviously, it can be an order,
thoughts, an emotional or unemotional subject and it is really wonderful how
brain chemicals and electrical charges alter to process a feedback. This
research is expected to be a great step into diagnosing and understanding brain
disorders and illness like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (an attention disorder prone of children as well as
adults) and finding better treatments for such disorders.