http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. By merely focusing on the "q" in a matrix of letters, for example, that "q" appears on the monitor. http://www.physorg.com/news179378975.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:30:24 EST news179378975 Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news178818726.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:07 EST news178818726 It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. Now, a new study helps to explain what happens in the brain that allows us to perceive a physically interrupted sound as being continuous. The research, published by Cell Press in the November 25 issue of Neuron provides fascinating insight into the constructive nature of human hearing. http://www.physorg.com/news178376538.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:17 EST news178376538 Video game players are often accused of passively reacting to tasks that are spoon fed to them through graphics and stimuli on the screen. A group of researchers from Iowa State University shows that playing lots of video games has different effects on two types of cognitive activity, proactive and reactive attention. http://www.physorg.com/news174665129.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:20:02 EST news174665129 Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior, according to the researchers, who report their findings online on October 1 in Current Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news173621412.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:11:02 EST news173621412 (PhysOrg.com) -- Driver education classes should be teaching young drivers that all kinds of mobile phones, both conventional and hands-free, are a dangerous distraction, says a University at Buffalo researcher, who studies driving behaviors. http://www.physorg.com/news171652700.html Other Sciences Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:40:01 EST news171652700 (PhysOrg.com) -- You're meeting a friend in a crowded cafeteria. Do your eyes scan the room like a roving spotlight, moving from face to face, or do you take in the whole scene, hoping that your friend's face will pop out at you? And what, for that matter, determines how fast you can scan the room? http://www.physorg.com/news169299018.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:30:57 EST news169299018 We've all experienced it after long hours driving, the eyelids getting heavy, a deep yawn, neck muscles relaxing, the urge to sleep, the head nodding down... But, you're hands are still on the wheel and you only just stopped yourself nodding off in time to avoid the oncoming traffic. http://www.physorg.com/news167907595.html Technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:10:01 EST news167907595 Catastrophic epilepsy - characterized by severe muscle spasms, persistent seizures, mental retardation and sometimes autism - results from a mutation in a single gene, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. http://www.physorg.com/news166206260.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:00:03 EST news166206260 (AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. http://www.physorg.com/news165487826.html Technology Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:50:56 EST news165487826 A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation. http://www.physorg.com/news160850020.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:34:36 EST news160850020 (PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain`s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Yang Dan of the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.physorg.com/news160407260.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 14:34:46 EST news160407260 It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don't appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers due to be published online this week by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward. http://www.physorg.com/news159973996.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:13:41 EST news159973996 Scientists have studied high-frequency brain waves, known as gamma oscillations, for more than 50 years, believing them crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce these waves by shining laser light directly onto the brains of mice. http://www.physorg.com/news159973187.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:00:19 EST news159973187 When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time - their brain waves are too. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows how EEG readouts from pairs of guitarists become more synchronized, a finding with wider potential implications for how our brains interact when we do. http://www.physorg.com/news156518053.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:14:39 EST news156518053 We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, probably not thinking twice about our brain's ability to understand everything that is being said to us. How does the brain turn seemingly random sounds and letters into sentences with clear meaning? http://www.physorg.com/news154349880.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:58:17 EST news154349880