Crisp sounds can trigger ASMR.
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It’s been ten years since the term was coined. Here’s what researchers know so far.
Elon Musk at Neuralink presentation with robot.
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Decades of research have shown that the brain does not yield its secrets easily.
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Although a great deal of research is still required, it may one day be possible to identify and treat people either with CTE, or at risk of it.
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The most interesting thing is how free Gertrude is to move around while the implanted chip collects the data.
Learning how to say ‘more.’
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Teaching deaf babies sign language improves the success of cochlear implants – and also safeguards their long-term physical and mental health.
The novel coronavirus is affecting our brains, whether we’ve caught it or not.
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Whether you had COVID-19 or just stressed out about getting it, your brain’s hippocampus may have shrunk in the last few months.
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Machine-learning algorithms can tell male from female brains. New research shows they might just be noticing that men have larger heads.
Are there innate differences between female and male brains?
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Attempts to find brain structures responsible for supposed cognitive sex differences have not succeeded.
Are there places in the body where SARS-CoV-2 can hide from the immune system?
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Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too?
Medical treatments involving neurostimulation, or cerebral electromagnetic stimulation, are resurfacing and appear to be more effective than drugs for treating depression.
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Medical treatments involving neurostimulation are resurfacing and appear to be more effective than drugs in treating depression.
A man with ALS uses a head-mounted laser pointer to communicate with his wife, by pointing to letters and words on a communication board.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a crippling, progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. Now it seems that a diabetes drug may help some cases.
Scientists are still piecing together the puzzle of how the brain works.
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A bioengineer explains how a clearer picture of brain structure and function may fine-tune the ways brain surgery attempts to correct structure and medication tries to correct function.
There is no scientific evidence to support the idea that people can be classified as visual, auditory or kinesthetic learners.
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False beliefs about the brain, called neuromyths, are ubiquitous in education. Is there any hope of debunking them?
Our brains communicate information in a manner that can be likened to an air traffic controller.
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Air traffic controllers have to process and manage large amounts of information to get airplanes to their destinations. The brain manages the incessant traffic of neurons in a similar fashion.
People with depression have higher levels of inflammation in their brains – which antibiotics might be able to treat.
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Minocycline, a type of antibiotic, has had promising results in treating depression in both animals and humans.
When you sniff a particular scent, your brain cells fire in a recognizable pattern.
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Brains recognize a smell based on which cells fire, in what order – the same way you recognize a song based on its pattern of notes. How much can you change the ‘tune’ and still know the smell?
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The virus seems to have a range of effects on the brain, even in patients with only mild lung illness.
COVID-19 has been linked to neurological problems in those with severe disease.
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As if the symptoms of COVID-19 were not disturbing enough, physicians have noted a rare neurological condition that emerges during some severe cases of this viral infection.
Brain scan of a boy with fever and alteration of consciousness.
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Some blind people seem to be able to see without being conscious of it.
Today’s high-stress environment is an opportunity to reset how our brains deal with stressful situations.
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With the county facing a crisis in emotional health, we may need two vaccines: one for COVID-19 and another for toxic stress. Here’s a technique for dealing with all that stress.