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A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals. Powerful magnetic pulses applied to the scalp to stimulate the brain can bring fast relief to many severely depressed patients for whom standard treatments have failed. Yet it’s …
Key takeaways: A study by researchers from UCLA, Australia, Ecuador, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. found that people around the world signal others for assistance every couple of minutes. The research, which examined behaviors in towns and rural areas in several different countries, revealed that people comply with these small requests for help far …
Dopamine fasting is the latest fad in Silicon Valley, the idea is that by reducing the brain’s feel good chemical via cutting back on things such as food, sex, alcohol, social media, chocolate, and technology followers may be able to reset their brain to be more effective and appreciate the simple things more easily; some …
A system has been developed which utilizes artificial intelligence to turn brain signals to recognizable speech which may help to restore a voice to those with limited or no ability to speak, as published in Scientific Reports. Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that is capable of translating thought into recognizable speech via monitoring brain …
3 men told they would never walk again are now able to once more thanks to doctors in Switzerland, clinical trial results as published in the journal Nature. Electrical devices developed by a team from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne were implanted around their spines to boost signals from their brains to their legs, and …
An Implantable biofuel powered sensor has been developed by researchers at Washington State University that runs on sugar and can monitor biological signals within the body to help detect, prevent, and diagnose diseases, as published in the IEEE Translations of Circuits and Systems journal. Researchers have demonstrated a unique integration of the biofuel cell with …
Researchers from UT Southwestern published in Nature the molecular structure of alpha Klotho and how the anti-aging protein transmits a hormonal signal that controls a variety of biological processes in collaboration with the University of New York and Wenzhou University. Mice lacking in either a-Klotho or hormone FGF23 were demonstrated 2 decades ago to suffer …
The world’s first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface is achieved via electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation. University of Washington (Washington, USA) researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of …