Neuroscience
Study identifies how key brain region orchestrates punishment decisions
It's a question most attorneys wish they could answer: How and why do judges and juries arrive at their decisions?
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Neuroscience
Using personal frequency to control brain activity
Stroke, Parkinson's disease and depression—these medical illnesses have one thing in common: they are caused by changes in brain functions. For a long time, research has therefore been conducted into ways of influencing ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Electric patch holds promise for treating PTSD
An average of 30 years had passed since the traumatic events that had left them depressed, anxious, irritable, hypervigilant, unable to sleep well and prone to nightmares.
Jan 28, 2016
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Neuroscience
Smooth movements are achieved by stable basal ganglia activity
Smooth movements require coordinated control of muscles. Even a simple reaching movement involves coordinated movements of a person's shoulder, arm, wrist and fingers, which are controlled by temporally precise commands from ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Mentally stimulating jobs linked to lower risk of dementia in old age
People with mentally stimulating jobs have a lower risk of dementia in old age than those with non-stimulating jobs, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
Aug 18, 2021
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Neuroscience
Spinal cord stimulation shown to instantly improve arm mobility after stroke
A neurotechnology that stimulates the spinal cord instantly improves arm and hand mobility, enabling people affected by moderate to severe stroke to conduct their normal daily activities more easily, report researchers from ...
Feb 20, 2023
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Neuroscience
Researchers develop theory on traveling waves of activity in the human brain
For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter's team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation. Previous studies indicate ...
May 16, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
Could electrical stimulation to the brain help with weight loss? Study shows promise
Giving a region of the brain that's key to self-control and motivation a zetz of electrical stimulation may help the obese to eat less and lose more weight, says a new study.
Nov 5, 2015
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Neuroscience
New discoveries of deep brain stimulation put it on par with therapeutics
Despite having remarkable utility in treating movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has confounded researchers, with a general lack of understanding of why it works at some frequencies ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Neuroscience
Stimulator bypasses spine injury, helps patients move hands
Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have implanted a spinal stimulator that is showing early promise in returning hand strength and movement to a California man who broke his neck in a dirt-biking accident five years ...
Dec 13, 2016
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