The Diagnostic Window Bottleneck: Neurologists rely heavily on EEGs to diagnose epilepsy, but standard clinical sessions provide only a 20-minute snapshot of brain activity, making manual detection ...
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Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests
When our thoughts drift away from the task at hand, our brains might actually become better at unconsciously picking up hidden patterns in our environment. A new study to be published in the journal ...
In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, several blind men each describe a different part of an elephant they are touching—a sharp tusk, a flexible trunk, or a broad leg—and disagree about ...
By inducing specific patterns of activity in small portions of the brain in awake mice, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have triggered a recalibration of neural ...
The brain may reuse some cells to store many different memories without mixing them up with or erasing older memories, a new ...
It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...
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Northwestern researchers just zeroed in on the wrong kind of learning that drives Parkinson’s tremors — pointing toward treatments that retrain the brain instead of ...
For the roughly 8.5 million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease, levodopa is both lifeline and trap. The drug ...
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