by Bill Hathaway, Yale University Using a novel biosensor known as HYlight — a fluorescent imaging technology — researchers were able to monitor and map metabolic activity within individual neurons of C. elegans (a type of nematode worm) over time and under different conditions. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2314699121Every system...
Since they came into use by physicians and researchers, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) or Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) have provided ways to treat neurological disorders and shed light on how the brain functions. As beneficial as they’ve been, BCIs have potential to go far beyond the technology’s current capabilities. In a collaboration between the Yale School of...
Twice a month, Siva Venkadesh calls his father, who has Parkinson’s disease, on the phone. His father is often incoherent in those conversations. But sometimes, “If he goes out for a walk and then talks to me right after, I can understand him very clearly,” said Venkadesh, a postdoctoral neuroscience researcher at the University of...
Scottish research looked at people who practised movement to music They showed more ‘structural connectivity’ on the right side of the brain There was more connectivity between regions that process sound and control Researchers hopes that future studies will determine whether music can help with special kinds of motor rehabilitation programmes, such as after a...
