Spontaneous brain pulses (IMAGE)
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Pictured is a high-fidelity map of physician-scientist Nico Dosenbach's brain while his dominant arm was in a cast for two weeks. The red and yellow areas of the MRI image represent previously undetected brain pulses. Dosenbach and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that disuse of an arm causes the affected brain region to disconnect from the rest of the brain's motor system within two days. However, spontaneous pulses maintain activity in the disused circuits until the region becomes active again when mobility is regained.
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