As many as one in five dengue fever deaths in the Americas occur in Mexico, and the rate of the disease's severity has been increasing for decades, according to the World Health Organization. Now, a Rutgers researcher has ...
Feb 2, 2023
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The eyes are often referred to as the "windows to the soul." In fact, there is a grain of neurobiological truth to this. An international research team from the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen, Germany, and Baylor ...
Sep 29, 2022
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From 300,000 mouse neurons, scientists hope to glean how the brain drives behavior. A newly released publicly available dataset is the largest of its kind and represents billions of split-second electrical pulses that comprise ...
Aug 23, 2022
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Today, anesthesia enables completely painless surgical procedures. It is already known from electroencephalography (EEG) studies on patients that during anesthesia the brain enters a deep sleep-like state in which periods ...
May 24, 2022
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Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have published a dataset that was recorded from the visual cortex of monkeys during the resting state. The dataset can be shared with other researchers for ...
Mar 11, 2022
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In the early and thus far most devastating stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists were at a near loss on how to treat the deadly disease. The public was desperate for information. Consequently, two antimalarial drugs—chloroquine ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Virtual reality-based rehabilitation programs are becoming an important complement to conventional motor therapy for stroke patients and individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. Immersion in virtual environments stimulates ...
Dec 15, 2020
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A recent demonstration video released by Elon Musk's firm Neuralink might not look like much at first. In the video, a pig named Gertrude eats snacks from a person's hand, while an accompanying computer screen displays blue ...
Sep 1, 2020
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A woman goes to the doctor for a mammogram. The result comes back positive. "This doesn't necessarily mean you have cancer, false positives are common," her doctor might say. Maybe the patient is also given a pamphlet with ...
Sep 10, 2018
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Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the "ventriloquist illusion" and its aftereffect, but research suggests that simply imagining the object produces the same illusory ...
Apr 12, 2018
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