COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE TRAVELING WAVE PROPAGATION DIRECTIONS IN THE MEMORY TASK REVEAL HOW THE BRAIN QUICKLY COORDINATES ACTIVITY AND SHARES INFORMATION ACROSS MULTIPLE REGIONS CREDIT: HONGHUI ZHANG In the space of just a few seconds, a person walking down a city block might check their phone, yawn, worry about making...
By Michael Irving MIT scientists have shown in mice that a simple light and sound exposure therapy can reduce symptoms of ‘chemo brain,’ the cognitive issues that arise during chemotherapy Depositphotos If you or someone you know has gone through chemotherapy, you might be familiar with the side effect commonly called ‘chemo brain.’ Scientists have...
Peer-Reviewed Publication COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE TRAVELING WAVE PROPAGATION DIRECTIONS IN THE MEMORY TASK REVEAL HOW THE BRAIN QUICKLY COORDINATES ACTIVITY AND SHARES INFORMATION ACROSS MULTIPLE REGIONSCREDIT: HONGHUI ZHANG In the space of just a few seconds, a person walking down a city block might check their phone, yawn, worry about...
by Newcastle University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a system which uses light stimulation to modulate brain waves. This opens up new avenues to explore for possible treatment of conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s and migraine. The team engineered a small implant containing LEDs, which was placed inside the brain to deliver light...
PICOWER INSTITUTE AT MIT IMAGE: AN EXAMPLE OF A DELTA-FREQUENCY TRAVELING WAVE AS MEASURED BY AN 8X8 ELECRODE ARRAY. RED INDICATES THE PEAK OF THE WAVE, WHICH PASSES UNDER THE ELECTRODE OVER THE COURSE OF 240 MILLISECONDS. CREDIT: MILLER LAB/MIT PICOWER INSTITUTE Imagine the conscious brain as a sea roiling with the collisions and dispersals...
ETH ZURICH IMAGE: THE SLEEP LOOP SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY ETH ZURICH RESEARCHERS EMITS A SOUND AT THE RIGHT TIME TO AMPLIFY THE SLOW BRAIN WAVES. CREDIT: SLEEPLOOP Many people, especially the elderly, suffer from abnormal sleep. In particular, the deep sleep phases become shorter and shallower with age. Deep sleep is important for the regeneration...
by Laurel Hamers, University of Oregon Credit: CC0 Public Domain Even when at rest, the brain is never truly quiet. New research in mice sheds light on the seemingly random brain signals that hum in the background of brains. These signals might help the brain switch between states of inattention or disengagement and states of optimal performance, UO...
by Ryan Randall, Florida Institute of Technology Figure 1. There were three parts of our memory experiment. First, people learned words on a computer screen, one at a time. Second, they took a break, and received 36 min of brain entrainment, consisting of lights and sounds. Third, they took a memory test, in which they saw...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak — and turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen. It will take years of additional research but the study, reported Wednesday, marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural communication for people who...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Researchers at UC San Francisco have observed a new feature of neural activity in the hippocampus – the brain’s memory hub – that may explain how this vital brain region combines a diverse range of inputs into a multi-layered memories that can later be recalled. Using a special “micro-grid” recording...
