Pediatrics
How to calm your child after a nightmare
Most parents have experienced it: Your young child wakes up distraught, sure that the nightmare they've just suffered through is real.
Feb 27, 2024
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News tagged with eye muscles
Genetics
Zebrafish's eye muscles give hope for people with muscular dystrophy diseases
Muscular dystrophies are a group of diseases in which proteins in the muscles do not function properly, either through inherited or spontaneous mutations. This, in turn, leads to muscle tissue breaking down over time and ...
Jan 22, 2024
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Diabetes
New discovery about diabetes may reduce the risk of organ failure
A new research result from Aarhus University and the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus has identified how diabetes affects stem cells residing in muscle to form fat and connective tissue. According to the researchers, the discovery ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Medical research
How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep
We laugh when we see Homer Simpson falling asleep while driving, while in church, and even while operating the Springfield nuclear reactor. In reality though, narcolepsy, cataplexy and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Neuroscience
Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep
When we dream, our brains are filled with noisy electrical activity that looks nearly identical to that of the awake brain.
Aug 7, 2020
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Medical research
These muscle cells are guideposts to help regenerative flatworms grow back their eyes
If anything happens to the eyes of the tiny, freshwater-dwelling planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, they can grow them back within just a few days. How they do this is a scientific conundrum—one that Peter Reddien's lab ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Eye contact activates the autonomic nervous system even during video calls
A new study from Tampere University in Finland found that eye contact during video calls can elicit similar psychophysiological responses than those in genuine, in-person eye contact.
Apr 23, 2020
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Medical research
Eye-tracking data improves prosthetic hands
Prosthetic hands restore only some of the function lost through amputation. But combining electrical signals from forearm muscles with other sources of information, such as eye tracking, promises better prostheses. A study ...
Feb 11, 2020
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Neuroscience
Researchers study healthy ALS neurons as way to understand resistance to the disease
Although largely paralyzed, ALS patients can communicate through eye-tracking devices because they retain eye movement until the disease's late stages. Yet, how some motor neurons resist ALS to allow for this movement has ...
Jun 25, 2019
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Medical research
Eye muscles are resilient to ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that affects all voluntary muscles in the body leading to paralysis and breathing difficulties. Eye muscles, in contrast to other ...
Jan 26, 2017
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