Neuroscience
Research shows brain stimulation during training boosts performance
Your Saturday Salsa club or Introductory Italian class might be even better for you than you thought.
Apr 25, 2017
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Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories was founded in 1949 and is a government-owned/contractor operated facility. Lockheed Martin is the private sector contractor operator. Sandia National Laboratories mission is to address national security in the area of nuclear weapons, energy, resource and nonproliferation, defense systems and assessments, homeland security and defense. Sandi National Laboratories main facilities are in New Mexico and California with a number of smaller labs within the US.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance
(Medical Xpress)—Research at Sandia National Laboratories has shown that it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study.
Sep 10, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Silicon nose: Small sensor 'smells' incipient seizures
In people with epilepsy, seizure-alert dogs can smell small changes in body chemistry and warn of an impending seizure an hour or more before it occurs. Inspired by this feat of nature, a team of researchers has sniffed out ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection
Viruses can't live without us—literally. As obligate parasites, viruses need a host cell to survive and grow. Scientists are exploiting this characteristic by developing therapeutics that close off pathways necessary for ...
Jun 16, 2016
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Medical research
Researchers find clues to superbug evolution
Imagine going to the hospital with one disease and coming home with something much worse, or not coming home at all. With the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistance pathogens, healthcare-associated infections have ...
Sep 24, 2014
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Neuroscience
Researchers seek chronic, reliable, intelligent neural interfaces
They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don't know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. ...
Jul 29, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Testing for Zika virus: There's an app for that
Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated ...
Mar 20, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Starving cancer instead of feeding it poison
A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia—and potentially other cancers as well—has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, ...
May 13, 2015
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Health
Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for study of health, performance
It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other in a single day. These motivated, resilient athletes now are helping researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of ...
Jan 5, 2017
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Radiology & Imaging
Patient-friendly brain imager gets green light toward first prototype
It might not start a fashion trend, but Sandia National Laboratories is designing a wearable brain imager.
Mar 10, 2020
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