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Finding the seat of language?

Finding the seat of language? Researchers look into Broca's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego, researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language -- word identification, grammar, ...


Study May Explain How A Well-Known Epilepsy and Pain Drug Works

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Duke University Medical Center researcher who spent years looking for the signals that prompt the brain to form new connections between neurons has found one that may explain precisely how a well-known ...


Brain develops motor memory for prosthetics, study finds

Brain develops motor memory for prosthetics, study finds

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

"Practice makes perfect" is the maxim drummed into students struggling to learn a new motor skill - be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. Stunning new research now reveals that the ...


Reading the brain without poking it

Reading the brain without poking it

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...


Older men with breathing problems during sleep more likely to have irregular heartbeats

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasingly severe sleep-related breathing disorders in older men appear to be associated with a greater risk of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), according to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...


Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The ...


Using your mood to operate a computer game

Using your mood to operate a computer game

Technology / Other

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...