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Researchers Find Differences In How The Brains Of Some Individuals Process The World Around Them

(PhysOrg.com) -- People who are shy or introverted may actually process their world differently than others, leading to differences in how they respond to stimuli, according to Stony Brook researchers and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Meditation increases brain gray matter

Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers -- people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do to build a bigger brain? Meditate.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 13

Study Shows Electrical Fields Influence Brain Activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that e ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Sensitive people may use their brains differently

(PhysOrg.com) -- An exploratory study has examined highly sensitive people and found the first evidence of neural differences between them and less sensitive people. Most studies have focused on the social ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

'Sound' science offers platform for brain treatment and manipulation

The ability to diagnose and treat brain dysfunction without surgery, may rely on a new method of noninvasive brain stimulation using pulsed ultrasound developed by a team of scientists led by William "Jamie" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Online e-expo features more than 100 university robotics labs

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to bring together the top academic robotics labs under one roof, a project called EXPO21XX has created an online exhibition to showcase the diversity in today's robotics research. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Hyperactive nerve cells may contribute to depression

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified hyperactive ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A pacemaker for your brain

By stimulating certain areas of the brain, scientists can alleviate the effects of disorders such as depression or Parkinson's disease. That's the good news. But because controlling that stimulation currently lacks precision, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify elusive neuronal targets of deep brain stimulation

Shooting steady pulses of electricity through slender electrodes into a brain area that controls complex behaviors has proven to be effective against several therapeutically stubborn neurological and neuropsychiatric ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pioneering treatment could help people with severe depression

Pioneering neurosurgical treatment, a world first in Bristol, which very accurately targets brain networks involved in depression, could help people who suffer with severe and intractable depression.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Girl's progress after pioneering brain surgery gives hope to other parents

Lexi Haas is awakening into a world of new possibilities. Miracle by tiny miracle, she is making her body do what she wants -- instead of her body always controlling her. She looked up at her mother a few weeks ago, pursed ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Novel spinal cord stimulator sparks hope for Parkinson's disease treatment

A novel stimulation method, the first potential therapy to target the spinal cord instead of the brain, may offer an effective and less invasive approach for Parkinson's disease treatment, according to pre-clinical data published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Deep brain stimulation successful for treatment of severely depressive patient

A team of neurosurgeons at Heidelberg University Hospital and psychiatrists at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim have for the first time successfully treated a patient suffering from severe ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study: Brain energy crisis may spark Parkinson's

Parkinson's disease may stem from an energy crisis in the brain, years before symptoms appear.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Wakey, wakey! Wake up refreshed with a brain-monitoring alarm clock

We all know the feeling, the short, sharp shock of waking to the sound of an alarm clock. Whether the traditional clattering metal bells, the incessant beeping of digital or the dulcet tones of today's radio news reader. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast