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People who climb too fast or too high risk acute altitude sickness, which can lead to life-threatening hypoxic brain injury. By using in vivo electrochemistry, researchers demonstrated that characteristic changes occur in the oxygen content of various …
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A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized.
December 6, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists have developed a ‘molecular GPS’ to guide immune cells into the brain and kill tumors without harming healthy tissue.
December 5, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a new language.
December 5, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study provides the first cellular evidence that making new brain cells in adults supports verbal learning and memory, which enables people to have conversations and to remember what they hear. This discovery could point to new approaches to resto…
Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of…
Conflicting parties experience threats to both their agency and morality, but the experience…
This is the second seminar of the 2013 Deputy Director for Management (DDM)…
December 4, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
Fiber optics are a means of transmitting information at incredibly high speeds; however, the technology can be used for more than just providing a fast internet connection. Researchers have developed an optical fiber sensing system that could help medi…
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands of years ago.
December 4, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives.
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A large study, of 77 deceased male ice hockey players, has found that the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increased by 34% each year played, and 18 of 19 National Hockey League players had CTE. CTE is a neurodegenerative disease c…
December 4, 2024 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research reveals the unique human ability to conceptualize numbers may be rooted deep within the brain.
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Theta burst stimulation (TBS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique known for modifying human behavior and treating neurological diseases. A group of scientists conducted a systematic review and network meta-analysis to determine the effective …
