Mirror therapy rehabilitation is a technique commonly used with stroke survivors to help them regain function of their limbs that have been weakened because of a stroke.
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The phrase "neurons that fire together, wire together" describes the neural plasticity seen in human brains, but neurons grown in a dish don't seem to follow these rules. Neurons that are cultured in-vitro form random and ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that the brain's ability to learn certain skills can be significantly enhanced if both the brain and nervous system are primed by carefully-calibrated, precisely-timed ...
Dec 11, 2024
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The teenage girl's plight is often portrayed in popular media as screaming matches with parents, sneaking out of the house late at night and crying over the latest crush. Adolescent girls experience significant cognitive ...
Dec 9, 2024
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A UCLA Health analysis of MDMA-assisted therapy research suggests that the drug could improve outcomes of treatment of a wider range of trauma-related conditions experienced by military personnel beyond the current focus ...
Dec 5, 2024
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Neuroscientist Rogier Min from the Amsterdam UMC has collaborated with Christiaan Levelt's lab from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and discovered how brain cells may react to cannabis, along with its potential ...
Dec 3, 2024
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A recent study reported the somewhat alarming observation that the social disruptions of COVID lockdowns caused significant changes in teenagers' brains.
Dec 2, 2024
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We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long, they ...
Nov 11, 2024
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It's a scientific truth many in the field of early childhood development like to parrot: children's brains are like sponges. But getting to see a child's sponge-like learning in action, from the perspective of a scientist, ...
Nov 1, 2024
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Soon we will once again switch to winter time, that is, we set the clocks back an hour. Switching to winter time is considered the easier of the two annual clock transitions, as we gain an hour of sleep. Some people may find ...
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