Neuroscience
Human 'neural compass' pinpointed in new study
A pattern of brain activity that helps prevent us from getting lost has been identified in a new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour.
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Health
Stay healthy abroad: Why you should see a travel medicine specialist before your trip
As you get ready to travel to another country, you probably have many details to coordinate and plan. One essential task, depending on where those travels take you, may be to make an appointment to see a travel medicine specialist.
Apr 3, 2024
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Neuroscience
Brain circuit that spoils appetite identified
Satiety, nausea or anxiety can all lead to a loss of appetite. Delaying eating can be a healthy move by the body to prevent further damage and to gain time for regenerating. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Biomedical technology
Researchers perform in-home test of adaptive robot interface for a person with quadriplegia
No one could blame Carnegie Mellon University students Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta if they were a bit anxious this past August as they traveled to the Bay Area home of Henry and Jane Evans.
Feb 27, 2024
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Health
Here's what happens to your body during plane turbulence: How to reduce the discomfort it causes
This week has seen another barrage of unsettled weather sweep across the UK, with many flights delayed or cancelled. Some of those who were fortunate enough to take off found themselves arriving at destinations that weren't ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Neuroscience
Scientists discover how a subset of neurons allows eyes to detect motion
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified how a subset of neurons enables the eyes to perceive motion, according to a study published in Nature Communications, a discovery that reveals previously hidden complexities ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Radiology & Imaging
Dlung: A novel method for lung image registration
Research published in Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Science) has proposed a new method for lung image registration named Dlung. Dlung is an unsupervised few-shot learning-based diffeomorphic lung image registration, ...
Jan 7, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Do you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you process the sound of movement
Almost nothing in the world is still. Toddlers dash across the living room. Cars zip across the street. Motion is one of the most important features in the environment; the ability to predict the movement of objects in the ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Medical research
Experiments on mice reveal the parts of the brain involved in motion sickness
A team of neuroscientists at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has found that the neurons in a mouse brain's vestibular nuclei control the signals that cause motion sickness. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
Neuroscience
Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song
Love songs are at least as popular in the animal kingdom as on the radio. The importance of musically serenading your true love has driven plotlines from Twelfth Night to The Trumpet of the Swan to Happy Feet.
Oct 11, 2023
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