News tagged with brain wave activity
Brain wave patterns can predict blunders, new study finds
Mar 23, 2009 |
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From spilling a cup of coffee to failing to notice a stop sign, everyone makes an occasional error due to lack of attention. Now a team led by a researcher at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration ...
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Special brain wave boost slows motion
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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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, ...
Researchers identify molecule that helps the sleep-deprived to mentally rebound
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Sleep experts know that the mental clarity lost because of a few sleepless nights can often be restored with a good night's rest. Now, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a key molecular ...
Alzheimer's-associated plaques may have impact throughout the brain
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The impact of the amyloid plaques that appear in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease may extend beyond the deposits' effects on neurons - the cells that transmit electrochemical signals throughout the nervous ...
Neuroscientists demonstrate link between brainwave acticity and visual perception
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Can we always see what is in front of us? According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is "no." New research published in "The Journal of ...
Research sheds new light on epilepsy
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.
For the first time, patterns of excitation waves found in brain's visual processing center
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists have long believed that vision is processed in the brain along circuits made up of neurons, similar to the way telephone signals are transferred through separate wires from one station to another. But scientists ...
A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 01, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Zeroing in on the brain's speech 'receiver'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A particular resonance pattern in the brain’s auditory processing region appears to be key to its ability to discriminate speech, researchers have found. They found that the inherent rhythm of neural activity called “theta ...
Brain wave changes in adolescence signal reorganization of the brain
Dec 06, 2006 |
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Brain wave changes in adolescence are related to age, not sexual maturation, and may be associated with one of the brain’s major reorganization projects: synaptic pruning, a new study finds.
The mind's eye scans like a spotlight
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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