Health
Stress transmitter wakes your brain more than 100 times a night—and it is perfectly normal
You wake up. The alarm clock says 02:56.
Jul 14, 2022
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News tagged with electrical brain activity
Psychology & Psychiatry
Theta waves: A marker of emotional regulation
Without realizing it, we all rely on emotional regulation many times a day. It's the process by which we mitigate the effect of disturbing stimuli in order to stay focused, improve our well-being and respond to demands from ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
Stimulating brain circuits promotes neuron growth in adulthood, improving cognition and mood
We humans lose mental acuity as an unfortunate side effect of aging. And for individuals with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the loss of cognitive function, often accompanied by mood disorders ...
May 16, 2022
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Neuroscience
Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes
Fresh techniques to aid seizure diagnosis and surgical planning stand to benefit millions of epilepsy patients, but the path to progress has been slow and challenging. New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Bin He ...
May 12, 2022
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Neuroscience
How 'calming' our spinal cords could provide relief from muscle spasms
Poor sleep, difficulty moving and injuries from hitting something accidentally are just some of the challenges faced by suffers of often-painful involuntary muscle spasms.
May 11, 2022
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Neuroscience
Enzyme prevents brain activity from getting out of control
Our bodies have the ability to modify the contacts between neurons. Among other things, this is how it prevents brain activity from getting out of control. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn, together with a team ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Neuroscience
Team shows that electrical synapses occur throughout brain, can influence individual nerve cells
Electrical synapses are omnipresent and yet hardly explored. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope.
Apr 5, 2022
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Neuroscience
Newborn cells in the epileptic brain provide a potential target for treatment
Over the years, everyone loses a few brain cells. A study led by scientists from USC Stem Cell and the USC Neurorestoration Center presents evidence that adults can replenish at least some of what they've lost by generating ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Medical research
Sleep shows how risk-seeking people may be
Each person has their own individual sleep profile which can be identified by the electrical brain activity during sleep. Researchers at the University of Bern have now demonstrated that the brain waves during periods of ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Neuroscience
Neurons are fickle. Electric fields are more reliable for information
A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome "representational drift," or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons.
Mar 11, 2022
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