Neuroscience

Fear factor: Study shows brain's response to scary stimuli

(Medical Xpress)—Driving through his hometown, a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder may see roadside debris and feel afraid, believing it to be a bomb. He's ignoring his safe, familiar surroundings and only ...

Neuroscience

Brain waves reveal video game aptitude

Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Smokers could be more prone to schizophrenia, study finds

Smoking alters the impact of a schizophrenia risk gene. Scientists from the universities of Zurich and Cologne demonstrate that healthy people who carry this risk gene and smoke process acoustic stimuli in a similarly deficient ...

Neuroscience

Neuroscientists link brain-wave pattern to energy consumption

Different brain states produce different waves of electrical activity, with the alert brain, relaxed brain and sleeping brain producing easily distinguishable electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns. These patterns change even ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Teaching the neurons to meditate

In the late 1990s, Jane Anderson was working as a landscape architect. That meant she didn't work much in the winter, and she struggled with seasonal affective disorder in the dreary Minnesota winter months. She decided to ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Could AI be the answer to early Parkinson's disease diagnoses?

Parkinson's disease is a significant health concern with profound impacts on individuals, the health care system and broader society. The current diagnosis model, which heavily relies on a medical professional interpreting ...

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