Neuroscience

Reactivating memories during sleep improves motor skills

Practice makes perfect, but sleep helps, too. Learning and executing a new motor skill can be enhanced if you can get additional memory processing during sleep, according to new research published in JNeurosci.

Radiology & Imaging

Sonothermogenetic pulse controls mouse behavior

Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success using deep brain stimulation devices, but those require invasive and expensive surgical implantation. Now engineers funded by ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Dangers of smoking during pregnancy

Mothers who smoke are more likely to deliver smaller babies even after a full-term pregnancy, increasing the risks of birth defects and neurological disorders later in life, say researchers from McGill University. The team ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO 'deeply concerned' by Long Covid

With nearly 200 million people known to have had COVID-19, the WHO said Wednesday it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with Long COVID.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Premature delivery raises odds for cerebral palsy

(HealthDay)—Extremely premature babies have a much higher risk of cerebral palsy and other neurological conditions than full-term infants, a large Israeli study affirms.

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