A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it's probably not because their brains' desire systems are ...
Feb 4, 2014
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an automated process that can trace the shapes of active neurons as accurately as human researchers can, but in a fraction of the time.
Apr 12, 2019
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Understanding how the brain moves – at rest and upon impact – has been crucial to understanding brain disorders, but technology has lagged behind. Now, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Auckland ...
May 29, 2018
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Are mice fans of film noir? Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle can't answer that question - yet.
Jul 18, 2016
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Short-form social media videos and images that set unattainable appearance standards may harm young women's perception of body image, research suggests.
Aug 21, 2023
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Japan's population is rapidly aging. As a result, new challenges have emerged as an increased number of elderly people, many of whom live in isolated parts of the country, need medical and nursing care despite inadequate ...
Dec 13, 2022
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We are up on the third floor of the electrical building at NTNU, not a place you usually associate with cancer research and medical equipment. But the little green pill that researcher Ali Khalegi is holding between his thumb ...
Jun 2, 2022
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A new study by researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Mental Health shows that the spike in video call usage during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many users feeling unhappy about their appearance.
Jun 30, 2021
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Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. ...
Nov 2, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) are developing a fully automated medical image analysis program to detect breast tumours. The program uses a unique style to focus ...
Sep 6, 2018
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