MeSH tree: G14.350
Alzheimer's disease affects more than 50 million people worldwide, often devastating both the individuals who have it and their families and loved ones. It has no known cure, and the slow, progressive nature of the disease ...
Nov 19, 2024
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The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than 10 million pieces of information and transmit them to the brain via thousands of nerve fibers. This ...
Nov 7, 2024
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Rapid side-to-side eye movements can help stabilize posture, avoid falls and maintain balance for people with Parkinson's disease, just as they can for healthy people. This seemingly counterintuitive conclusion was reached ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Imagine driving a vehicle on a day when there is a lot of traffic. In a complex task like this one, we need to scan the environment constantly and look at different parts of the scene to monitor everything that is going on.
Sep 19, 2024
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Picture two people sitting in a movie theater, both watching the screen: Are they seeing the same thing? Or is the movie playing out differently in each of their minds? Researchers from the Justus Liebig University Giessen ...
Sep 3, 2024
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Imagine you are looking out the window: a small bird is flying across the blue sky, and a girl with a red baseball cap is walking along the sidewalk, passing by two people sitting on a bench. You might think that you are ...
Oct 31, 2023
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A very subtle and seemingly random type of eye movement called ocular drift can be influenced by prior knowledge of the expected visual target, suggesting a surprising level of cognitive control over the eyes, according to ...
Apr 3, 2023
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"Seeing eye to eye" is an expression of harmony, but do different people literally see the same thing when they view the same external world?
Dec 27, 2022
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The rapid eye movements during a mouse's REM sleep provide more insight into the mechanism behind dreaming, a new study finds.
Oct 12, 2022
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Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you're looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the early 1950s, the significance ...
Aug 26, 2022
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