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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

New study uncovers brain's code for pronouncing vowels

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech. The discovery could lead to new technology that verbalizes the unspoken words of ...

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

Researchers show 'neural fingerprints' of memory associations

Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of elec-trical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given ...

Neuroscience created Jun 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher probes the stigma of migraine

For years, neurologist William Young of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Headache Center has heard his patients say how bad they felt when other people did not take their migraines seriously.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

All in the family: A genetic link between epilepsy and migraine

New research reveals a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and migraine. Findings published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), indicate that having a strong family history of sei ...

Neuroscience created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study supports link between stress, epileptic seizures

(HealthDay)—Scientists have long thought that stress plays a role in epileptic seizures, and new evidence suggests that epilepsy patients who believe this is the case experience a different brain response ...

Neuroscience created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making memories: Researchers explore the anatomy of recollection

With the help of data collected from intracranial electrodes implanted on epilepsy patients, researchers in Drexel's School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems are getting a rare look inside the brain in ...

Neuroscience created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new non-invasive method for diagnosing epilepsy

(Medical Xpress)—A team of University of Minnesota biomedical engineers and researchers from Mayo Clinic published a groundbreaking study today that outlines how a new type of non-invasive brain scan taken ...

Medical research created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy drugs increase risk of fractures and falls

(Medical Xpress) -- New research has shed light on the high risk of fractures, falls, and osteoporosis among epilepsy patients using antiepileptic drugs with most patients unaware of the risks associated with taking the drugs.

Neuroscience created Jun 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain surgery for epilepsy underutilized: study

Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely adopted—in fact, it ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Symptoms that mimic epilepsy linked to stress, poor coping skills

Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital's inpatient epilepsy monitoring ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists strengthen memory by stimulating key site in brain

Ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day help you improve your memory.

Neuroscience created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds superior drug combo for difficult-to-control epilepsy

A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report to be published ...

Neuroscience created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds bidirectional relationship between schizophrenia and epilepsy

Researchers from Taiwan have confirmed a bidirectional relation between schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study published today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reports that patien ...

Medical research created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug improves brain function in condition that leads to Alzheimer's

An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer's disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast