News tagged with brain wave activity


How cannabis causes 'cognitive chaos' in the brain

Cannabis use is associated with disturbances in concentration and memory. New research by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found that brain activity becomes uncoor ...

Neuroscience created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (28) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Scientists can now 'see' how different parts of our brain communicate

A new technique which lets scientists 'see' our brain waves at work could revolutionise our understanding of the human body’s most complex organ and help transform the lives of people suffering from schizophrenia ...

Neuroscience created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain waves reveal video game aptitude

Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves.

Neuroscience created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Brain waves encode rules for behavior

One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level. Some evidence suggests that ensembles of neurons represent each unique piece of information, ...

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brain state affects memory recall

Lost your keys? Your brain might be in a better state to recall where you put them at some times than at others, according to new research from UC Davis. A paper describing the work is published June 13 in the journal Proceedings of ...

Neuroscience created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists link brain-wave pattern to energy consumption

Different brain states produce different waves of electrical activity, with the alert brain, relaxed brain and sleeping brain producing easily distinguishable electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns. These patterns ...

Neuroscience created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain waves control the impact of noise on sleep

During sleep, our perception of the environment decreases. However the extent to which the human brain responds to surrounding noises during sleep remains unclear. In a study published this week in Proceedings of ...

Neuroscience created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists harness the power of electricity in the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- A paralyzed patient may someday be able to "think" a foot into flexing or a leg into moving, using technology that harnesses the power of electricity in the brain, and scientists at University of Michigan ...

Neuroscience created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Brain 'hyperconnectivity' linked to depression

People with depression have hyperactive brain activity, according to a study published online Tuesday that offers new insight into the brain dysfunction that causes depression.

Neuroscience created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists identify mechanism that could contribute to problems in Alzheimer's

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have unraveled a process by which depletion of a specific protein in the brain contributes to the memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease. These findings provide new insights ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common nutritional supplement offers promise in treatment of unique form of autism with epilepsy

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University schools of medicine, have identified a form of autism with epilepsy that may potentially be treatable ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solving the 'Cocktail Party Problem': How we can focus on 1 speaker in noisy crowds

In the din of a crowded room, paying attention to just one speaker's voice can be challenging. Research in the March 6 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron demonstrates how the brain hones in on one sp ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds emotion reversed in left-handers' brains

The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE by psychologists Geoffrey Brookshire and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Resear ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alpha wave blocks your mind for distraction, but not continuously

Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so called alpha wave, a slow brain wave ...

Neuroscience created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists in sleep-wake tests decode dreams

What's in a dream? For Yukiyasu Kamitani, the question is important. He has been testing how dreams relate to brain activity and what really is the function of dreaming, He leads a team of researchers at the ATR Computational ...

Neuroscience created Oct 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report