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A collaboration of American investigators announces the development of a wrist sensor that is extremely effective at gaging the severity of an epilepsy seizure. In fact, the system is almost identical in terms of performance to traditional electroencephalograms (EEG).
The latter are used to measure brain wave activi... |
27 April 2012
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In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), investigators determined that the human brain matures at the exact same time when teenagers reach puberty.
The research, carried out on a sample of 67 teens, used electroencephalogram (EEG) readin... |
2 April 2012
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A collaboration of investigators from the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that specific waves of electrical activity develop in the human brain according to the different states the brain is in at any given time.
By analyzing these wave patterns, investigators say that it m... |
8 February 2012
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding a number of scientific researches aimed at restoring some of the lost functionality to people who are completely paralyzed, or who suffer from degenerative diseases. This will be accomplished through brain-computer interfaces. The NSF Center of Excellence ... |
17 October 2011
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For years, motivational speakers have been proclaiming that people how feel in control of their lives are more successful, and also more capable of fulfilling their dreams. This concept is tightly associated with having free will. Researchers took a look at the two recently, to assess the true nature of this link.The... |
25 March 2011
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The idea of having a headset that can actually automatically measure one's brain activity by simply being placed on their head seems to be a bit far-fetched, but, in fact, that's exactly what the people over at NeuroFocus promise with their brand-new Mynd headset.According to NeuroFocus, their Mynd device i... |
21 March 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers took a closer look at how psychotherapy affects the brain of people who suffer from anxiety disorders. The study was conducted because therapy and medication are the two main courses of treatment doctors prescribe to patients suffering from this condition. These two meth... |
15 February 2011
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A team of investigators from the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine (WUSM) has just discovered a new way to go about understanding the patterns of electrical activity in the brain.
When analyzing the functions of the brain, researchers usually keep in mind two very important things – when ... |
8 February 2011
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A team of scientists from the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg made a big step towards a way of predicting epileptic seizures, according to the latest issue of the journal 'Epilepsia'.Epileptic seizures can be very serious and researchers have been working for a while now on a method to predict t... |
6 October 2010
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A team of scientists in Utah found a way of translating thoughts into words, well, only ten words for now, but the technique is very promising.This kind of research could largely benefit locked-in patients, that are unable to move or speak, and while most of them are able to blink to communicate, it is a rather diffi... |
23 September 2010
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A team of experts from the UK has recently developed a groundbreaking development of an established brain imaging technology, that may enable healthcare experts to communicate with brain dead patients.The team that achieved this remarkable result is based at the Cambridge University, and is led by expert Adrian Owen.... |
21 September 2010
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Healthcare experts and parents alike have believed for a long time that giving sugar water to small children before various procedures may ease the little one's pains. That is simply not true, a new study suggests. Sweet drinks apparently do little to quell the pain sensation, show the new investigation, which w... |
3 September 2010
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In a finding that may finally help explains why introverted individuals prefer to spend their time on their own, researchers discovered that these people tend to place less meaning on the faces they see than socially-opened peers. In other words, the new research indicates that extroverted people are more attentive t... |
19 August 2010
06:35 GMT |
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For many years, experts have argued that the brain is the final frontier in advertising. There are many types of ads in circulation today, and almost all angles of approach have been exhausted. Some companies have turned to placing video cameras on billboards. These machines see what people stop in front of the ads, ... |
18 March 2010
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Experts at the University of Maryland in College Park (UM) announce a resounding success in their work with brain-signal recordings. They explain in a new paper accompanying their study that they were able to faithfully reproduce hand motions in three dimensions, using electrical signals recorded from the brain via n... |
3 March 2010
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According to investigators at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the brains of people who are placed under anesthesia tend to exhibit the same type of response to external stimuli as the brains of individuals in deep sleep. If this turns out to be true, a direct consequence would be the... |
28 January 2010
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Producing more and more accurate data on the human brain is the goal of all imaging methods used in hospitals today. Scanning the electrical activity of the cortex, or determining firing patterns within various areas of the brain are objectives that require complex medical procedures. In spite of recent advancements,... |
23 January 2010
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Small children at times surprise their family and relatives when they are caught with an amazed or curious look in their eyes, which seems to hint at the fact that the “wheels” inside their brains are spinning full speed. Parents have known this for a long time, but now a new scientific study comes to con... |
12 August 2009
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) may now seem like a thing of the future, but they are a lot closer than any of us thinks, according to European scientists. For quite some time now, they've been working on a way of making thoughts control human actions in a virtual environment, and their accomplishments thus far ... |
11 May 2009
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As any caffeine “addict” will tell you, getting off the substance for even a short period of time may result in a number of unpleasant symptoms, including headaches, fatigue, feeling less energetic and alert, as well as difficulties in concentrating. By combining readings from electroencephalograms, elect... |
4 May 2009
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University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) researchers have recently demonstrated a novel way through which people with disabilities can interact with the outside world. Using a device similar in concept with an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine, they have been able to post a Twitter message just by thinking at it. The w... |
21 April 2009
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The US Army wants to fund a research that would render regular modern communication methods obsolete and, instead, use transmission of information via thought. According to the scientists' prognoses, this technology is some 20 years away, but the premises and basic technology have already been developed.The &ldq... |
14 October 2008
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Virtual reality glasses may not be the answer to future gaming. Here's what may fit a future gamer's forehead: a biofeedback headset that reads brain waves, retina and forehead muscles in order to affect game play. Silicon Valley-based Neurosky has already developed a headset based on a Star Wars game (a Da... |
30 April 2007
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