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Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

4 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...

Depression saps endurance of the brain's reward circuitry

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

20 hours ago | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 1

A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion.

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (41) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...

Dutch researchers explore advanced brain diagnostic techniques

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

At present the task of diagnosing brain disorders using electroencephalography (EEG) is still performed by humans, but in years to come it will increasingly be taken over by computerized systems. This will ...