By Michael Irving May 17, 2023 Stanford scientists have uncovered a new mechanism behind depression – and shown how magnetic stimulation can help treat it. Depositphotos Stanford scientists have discovered a major biological mechanism behind severe depression, and shown how to treat it. Signals between two key parts of the brain seem to flow the...
BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In an effort to improve treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, a team of researchers has for the first time recorded electrical signals in the human brain associated with ebbs and flows in OCD symptoms over an extended period in their homes as they went about daily living. The research...
by Max Planck Society The insular cortex in the brain processes information about the heart rate to keep fear in balance. Credit: MPI of Neurobiology / Kuhl Fear is essential for survival, but must be well regulated to avoid harmful behaviors such as panic attacks or exaggerated risk taking. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of...
June 13, 20217:00 AM ET JON HAMILTON People recovering from a stroke will soon have access to a device that can help restore a disabled hand. The Food And Drug Administration has authorized a device called IpsiHand, which uses signals from the uninjured side of a patient’s brain to help rewire circuits controlling the hand,...
By Nick Lavars, April 06, 2021 Devices that monitor electrical activity in the human brain could prove to be powerful tools for sufferers of paralysis adamfaheydesigns/DepositphotosVIEW 3 IMAGES Machines that connect to the human brain to gather and interpret its electrical signals have wide-ranging potential, from enabling paralyzed people control over robotic prostheses to supplementing human...
FEBRUARY 9TH, 2021 POSTED BY TAMARA BHANDARI-WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY “With this optical method, users would be able to sit in a chair, put on a cap, and potentially use this technology to communicate with people,” says Joseph P. Culver. “We’re not quite there yet, but we’re making progress. What we’ve shown in this paper is that,...
CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF AUTOMATION By measuring brain signals and implementing a clever feedback scheme, researchers from India and the UK have reduced the positional error in brain-controlled robot arms by a factor of 10, paving the way to greatly enhancing the quality of life for people suffering from strokes and neuro-muscular disorders. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have seen...
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Fresh insights into damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease could aid the quest for treatments. A study in mice reveals how the two proteins work together to disrupt communication between brain cells. Scientists observed how proteins – called amyloid beta and tau – team up...
by University of Basel The relay station of the brain, the substantia nigra, consists of different types of nerve cells and is responsible for controlling the execution of movements. Researchers at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum have now characterized two of these cell populations more precisely and assigned an exact function to each of them. The results of the study have now...
