Neuroscience
Researchers work on device to let paralyzed limbs move
Researchers are making progress in a quest to create a device that would allow people who have been paralyzed by injury or stroke to move their limbs.
Jan 5, 2016
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Neuroscience
Using network science to help pinpoint source of seizures
The ability to reliably pinpoint the anatomical source of epileptic seizures, different for each patient, remains elusive. One third of patients do not respond to medication and an alternative can be surgery to locate and ...
Dec 17, 2015
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Neuroscience
Hopes of improved brain implants
Neurons thrive and grow in a new type of nanowire material developed by researchers in Nanophysics and Ophthalmology at Lund University in Sweden. In time, the results might improve both neural and retinal implants, and reduce ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Neuroscience
Brain plasticity after vision loss has an 'on-off switch'
KU Leuven biologists have discovered a molecular on-off switch that controls how a mouse brain responds to vision loss. When the switch is on, the loss of sight in one eye will be compensated by the other eye, but also by ...
Aug 12, 2015
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Neuroscience
How does the brain respond to hearing loss?
Researchers at the University of Colorado suggest that the portion of the brain devoted to hearing can become reorganized—reassigned to other functions—even with early-stage hearing loss, and may play a role in cognitive ...
May 19, 2015
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Medical research
Researchers test device to help deaf children detect sounds
At age 3, Angelica Lopez is helping to break a sound barrier for deaf children.
Feb 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
See-through sensors open new window into the brain
(Medical Xpress)—Developing invisible implantable medical sensor arrays, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has overcome a major technological hurdle in researchers' efforts to understand the brain.
Oct 21, 2014
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Medical research
Postdoc unravels secrets to implant effectiveness
There's a saying in neuroscience: 'Neurons that fire together wire together.' Dan Stolzberg wants to better understand how those 'firing neurons' impact the success of cochlear implants.
Jun 9, 2014
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Neuroscience
Neurosurgeon uses depth electrodes for speech mapping
At the 2014 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, neurosurgical researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center presented results from a small study looking at deep brain electrode implantation ...
May 15, 2014
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Neuroscience
Coming soon: A brain implant to restore memory
In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.
May 1, 2014
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