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If a piece of electronics isn't working, troubleshooting the problem often involves probing the flow of electricity through the various components of the circuit to locate any faulty parts.
Stanford bioengineer and neuroscientist Jin Hyung Lee, who...
Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. Credit: Flickr/Guy Mayer
A new method for inducing visual hallucinations in healthy individuals could lead to new treatments...
Rendering of a nerve cell.
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In a new systematic review in JAMA Neurology, Michigan Medicine researchers found reason to further explore the surprising effects of zolpidem that have been observed outside the scope of its primary...
Ability grouping places students of similar skills and abilities in the same classes. Image Credit: Flickr/breadfortheworld
Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of...
In the marked brain region the thickness of the cerebral cortex decreased after psychotherapy.Credit: UZH
Anxiety in social situations is not a rare problem: Around one in ten people are affected by social anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Social anxiety...
MRI coronal view of the amygdala.Credit: Amber Rieder, Jenna Traynor, Geoffrey B Hall
How different are men and women's brains?
The latest evidence to address this controversy comes from a study at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, where a...
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A chemical byproduct, or metabolite, created as the body breaks down ketamine likely holds the secret to its rapid antidepressant action, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and grantees have discovered....
Researchers have found that practice of a simple meditation or music listening program may have multiple benefits for older adults with preclinical memory loss.Image Credit: Flickr/HAMZA BUTT
In a recent study of adults with early memory loss, a West Virginia...
Students at Baltimore’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle School observe and take notes on their zebrafish.Credit: David Schmelick and Deirdre Hammer/JHU
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but...
Completing a game of "Super Mario Brothers" can be hard -- very, very hard.
That's the conclusion of a new paper from researchers at MIT, the University of Ottawa, and Bard College at Simon's Rock. They show that the problem...
25-year-old man recovering from a coma has made remarkable progress following a treatment at UCLA to jump-start his brain using ultrasound. The technique uses sonic stimulation to excite the neurons in the thalamus, an egg-shaped structure that serves as...
