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Individualized Fingerprints From Sleep Brainwaves Provide Powerful New Tool For Understanding Disease

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tailored To Anxiety

According to a press release, a team led by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, in close collaboration with investigators at Mass General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed a powerful computational tool for understanding brain health and disease, providing an enhanced …

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Press (re)play to remember – How the brain strengthens memories during sleep

Tiny implantable tool for light-sheet imaging of brain activity

While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns — slow oscillations and sleep spindles — gear into each other, previous experiences are reactivated. The stronger the reactivation, the clearer will be our recall of past events, a new study reveals. Scientists have long known that slow oscillations (SOs) and …

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