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People with paralysis navigate a room via a mind-controlled wheelchair
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A mind-controlled wheelchair can help a paralyzed person gain new mobility by translating users' thoughts into mechanical commands. Researchers now demonstrate that tetraplegic users can operate mind-controlled wheelchairs in a natural, cluttered environment after training for an extended pe
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Study reveals signature pattern of connectivity exclusive to brains of aut
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Distinguishing between the brain activity patterns of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental coordination deficit populations is critical. The study revealed how distinctive pattern of white matter connectivity in autistic individuals's brains that is different from that in those w
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Rare mutations may have big impact on schizophrenia pathology
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have long searched for genetic influences in schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that disrupts brain activity producing hallucinations, delusions, and other cognitive disturbances. However, the disease's genetic mutations have been identified in only a small fraction few
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Study suggests how dissociative symptoms affect brain
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms which can be helpful in the short term but can be harmful if they persist over an extended period of time.
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Researchers look into how dissociative symptoms affect brain
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms - such as having an out-of-body experience or feeling emotionally numb--that may help an individual cope in the short term but can have negative impacts if the symptoms persist for an extended period of time.
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Researchers uncover brain waves related to social behaviour
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered electrical brain-wave patterns given off during social interactions in mice. They also observed that mice showing signs of stress, depression, or autism lacked these brain waves. The results reveal more about the mechanisms underlying brain activity when socializi
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Researchers: Potential treatment for binge eating disorder is deep brain s
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), accor
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Study: Brain activity differs in young people with genetic risk of mental
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): According to a study, young people with a genetic alteration that raises the risk of mental illnesses have significantly different brain activity during sleep.
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Young people with hereditary predisposition to psychiatric illnesses have
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep, a new study shows.
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Brain activity during sleep differs in young people with genetic risk of p
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 31 (ANI): Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep, a new study shows.
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Deep brain stimulation shows promise against binge eating disorder
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 30 (ANI): A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), accordi
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Study identifies distinct neural pattern of aggressiveness in intimate par
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): In a recent study, functional magnetic resonance imaging was utilized to track 51 male-female romantic partners' brain activity as they encountered real-time intimate partner hostility.
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