Neuroscience
- Normal Sleep Duration 50% Less Common After A Stroke
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Getting enough sleep is correlated to brain and heart health and after a stroke that is even more important. A new survey finds that is when people who need it are least likely to get it. A cohort of 39,559 people were asked every two years how much sleep ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2024 - 11:26am
- Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans
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A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working m ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2025 - 2:46pm
- Prosthetic Hearing: Soft Brainstem Implant One Step Closer To Human Trials
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The cochlear implant has helped many regain hearing functionality and a new study shows a potential roadmap for those whose cochlear nerve is too damaged; the auditory brainstem implant. The current auditory brainstem implant and its rigid structure does n ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2025 - 12:25pm
- Becoming The Music: How Our Brains Sync With Sound To Create Emotion
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Some psychologists believe our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, we become it. We physically resonate with it. They call their belief Neural Resonance Theory (NRT). They use Theory is in the name, but it is not a theory like gravity or evolut ...
Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 1:18pm
- A Decline In Financial Skills May Be A Harbinger Of Alzheimer’s
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It is a time-honored tradition for the young to ridicule the old and vice-versa but some warning signs in the elderly may be serious. Elderly people are often financially savvy, and get more so with age- unless Alzheimer’s begins to set in, according to a ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2025 - 9:11am
- Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces
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Human evolution and culture have been shaped by our increasing ability to communicate. A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signa ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2025 - 10:03am
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