3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (148+ words) Technology Networks Moreover, the team found that under Igusa mat conditions, gamma wave activity showed clear changes between resting and task periods across many brain areas. Alpha wave activity also remained more stable during rest periods. Together, these patterns suggest…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (362+ words) For something so familiar to human experience, consciousness is still a mystery. Each day, people cycle through wakefulness and sleep, from a higher level of consciousness to a lower one. What’s more, some people alter their conscious experience with drugs…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (221+ words) A new study led by UCLA Health researchers has identified a specific type of brain cell and a tiny structure on its surface that changes when the body is under stress, which may help explain why stress can lead to…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (354+ words) Ohio State experts are learning more about what causes gliomas to improve prevention, care and treatment. Median life expectancy following glioblastoma diagnosis is about 15 months with treatment, and only 5-7% of patients survive as long as five years. Treatment with radiation…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (667+ words) The immune system may also play a role in mental disorders. Scientists are investigating these links with brain function in greater detail, and new findings show that immune changes may differ by disorder type. A team involving researchers from Wroclaw…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (330+ words) Experts at the University of Sydney have found that a gene involved in regulating the body’s response to stress switches on more easily in the brains of people who live with schizophrenia. The study, published in the American Journal of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (496+ words) Researchers at Georgia State University have identified a previously unknown aspect of schizophrenia that offers a new way to understand how the disorder affects large-scale brain coordination. In a new study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers introduced a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (776+ words) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that, according to the CDC, currently impacts around 35,000 Americans-with 5,000 more diagnosed each year. Risk climbs with age, and treatments only slow progression. With no cure and an aging population, scientists are urgently…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (829+ words) When neuroscientists look at brain scans of individuals taking psychedelics, they often see a firework of activity across their screens—and it was this buzz of noise that led researchers to believe that these drugs cause complete mental chaos. Challenging…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (666+ words) Innovative research led by a uOttawa Faculty of Medicine professor whose lab focuses on mechanisms that maintain a healthy immune system has discovered that a gene best known for increasing the risk of Parkinson's disease may also give the body…...