Researchers have modified a commercial virtual reality headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity in order to examine how we react to hints, stressors and other outside forces.
Aug 4, 2023
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Are you taking your time when feeding your pet? Fluffy and Fido are on to you—and they can tell when you are dawdling.
Oct 23, 2018
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The saying goes that "your left hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing," but actually, your left hand is paying more attention than you'd think. Researchers at Tel-Aviv University found that when people practiced ...
Dec 13, 2016
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems placed test persons in front of their virtual ...
Oct 9, 2018
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Wave after wave of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is taking a heavy toll on our collective mental health, causing depression and anxiety.
Jan 27, 2022
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Around three quarters of years lived with disability are conditions that could benefit from physical rehabilitation—but there aren't enough physical therapists (PT) to go around. The growing need is racing alongside population ...
Oct 7, 2022
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An anatomy expert at Iowa State University is developing digital tools that could help surgical students gain nearly lifelike experience with a scalpel without having to cut into cadavers or living subjects.
Jul 18, 2013
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By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking contrasts in how groups of neurons ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Virtual reality (VR) has been found to be an effective treatment method for anxiety, according to a new study, led by Computer Science Senior Lecturer Dr. Nilufar Baghaei and co-authored by Ph.D. student Vibhav Chitale.
Oct 21, 2021
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Can virtual reality help reduce the pain of medical procedures?
Nov 19, 2018
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