Neuroscience

Study finds hypothalamus helps switch between survival tasks

The hypothalamus is a small region of the human brain typically associated with regulating body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep. But it also has another important role: helping the brain and body switch between ...

Medical research

Predicting the chaos in Tourette syndrome tics

During the pandemic, news reports surfaced of a surge of young adults showing up at doctors' offices with unexplainable movement disorders that looked, perhaps to a non-specialist, a little bit like Tourette syndrome.

Neuroscience

Novel computational model to predict 'change blindness'

Our brains have the remarkable ability to process details, but may sometimes fail to notice even marked differences. For example, in the images above, some people may not immediately spot the difference in size between the ...

Neuroscience

How do migraines affect the sleep cycle?

Adults and children with migraines may get less quality, REM sleep time than people who don't have migraines. That's according to a meta-analysis published in the September 22, 2021, online issue of Neurology, the medical ...

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