News tagged with neurophysiological methods
Cracking the brain's numerical code
By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen. They can similarly tell how many dots a person has been presented with, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2009 |
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The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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The science behind the cape
What do you have when you line up a martial artist, acrobatic gymnast, police officer, firefighter, NASCAR driver, and NFL running back? "Watson," the IBM super-computer that recently routed humanity's best ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Illuminating the brain: Technique stimulates brain cells, reveals how those neurons influence the rest
There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, and each one belongs to elaborate networks that control our behavior, thoughts and emotions. A message from a single neuron can have far-reaching consequences ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Learn more quickly by transcranial magnetic brain stimulation
What sounds like science fiction is actually possible: thanks to magnetic stimulation, the activity of certain brain nerve cells can be deliberately influenced. What happens in the brain in this context has ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Push and pull get eyes to work together
Researchers appear to have found a better way to correct sensory eye dominance, a condition in which an imbalance between the eyes compromises fine depth perception. The key is a push-pull training method in which the weak ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Brain changes found in football players thought to be concussion-free
A study by researchers at Purdue University suggests that some high school football players suffer undiagnosed changes in brain function and continue playing even though they are impaired.
Oct 07, 2010 |
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EEG predicts response to medication for schizophrenia
A commonplace electroencephalography (EEG) test may hold the key to predicting whether a person will respond to certain prescribed drugs, particularly those related to psychiatric conditions.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2010 |
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New analysis reveals clearer picture of brain's language areas
(PhysOrg.com) -- Language is a defining aspect of what makes us human. Although some brain regions are known to be associated with language, neuroscientists have had a surprisingly difficult time using brain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2010 |
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New method reveals how individual nerve cells process visual input
Pioneering a novel microscopy method, neuroscientist Arthur Konnerth and colleagues from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have shown that individual neurons carry out significant aspects of sensory processing: ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Catching calcium waves could provide Alzheimer's insights (w/ Video)
New insights on what causes Alzheimer's disease could arise from a recent discovery made by bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego. The finding concerns the infamous amyloid beta peptides ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 12, 2010 |
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