Discovery helps to unlock brain's speech-learning mechanism
USC scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are learning to imitate.
View ArticleLife without fits: New treatment for refractory epilepsies
Through a joint project between the University Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the MedUni Vienna, a new treatment option has recently been launched that promises people with...
View ArticleSuited for treatment of brain damage
For those with brain damage or neurological disorders - such as MS or Parkinson's - treatment could be as close as the wardrobe.
View ArticleBreakthrough in retinal implants expected to restore sight to the blind
Researchers at the University of Arizona and University of Tübingen have made a breakthrough in retinal implant technology that could help people who have lost their sight see more than just light and...
View ArticleFilling me softly: New study shows implant stiffness is a major cause of...
Surgical implants are widely used in modern medicine but their effectiveness is often compromised by how our bodies react to them. Now, scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that...
View ArticleResearchers report breakthrough in qualitative and reliable EEG monitoring...
At next week's Neuroscience 2014, held Nov. 15-19 in Washington, D.C., nanoelectronics research center imec and Holst Centre will present their next-generation wireless electroencephalography (EEG)...
View ArticleHow we know where we are
Knowing where we are and remembering routes that we've walked are crucial skills for our everyday life. In order to identify neural mechanisms of spatial navigation, RUB researchers headed by Prof Dr...
View ArticleProtecting nerve tissue during bowel surgery
After bowel surgery, more than half of the patients suffer from irreparable nerve damage. Now scientists have developed an assistance system that warns surgeons about the risk of inflicting possible...
View ArticleResearchers build brain-machine interface to control prosthetic hand
A research team from the University of Houston has created an algorithm that allowed a man to grasp a bottle and other objects with a prosthetic hand, powered only by his thoughts.
View ArticleMRI technology reveals deep brain pathways in unprecedented detail
Scientists at Duke Medicine have produced a 3-D map of the human brain stem at an unprecedented level of detail using MRI technology.
View ArticleScientists to bypass brain damage by re-encoding memories
Researchers at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss.
View ArticleBreakthrough for electrode implants in the brain
For nearly nine years, researchers at Lund University have been working on developing implantable electrodes that can capture signals from single neurons in the brain over a long period of time -...
View ArticleNew non-invasive brain stimulation technique for pain management
Last year, the National Institutes of Health in the United States stated that the overuse and dependence of drug treatment for chronic pain had created a 'silent epidemic' of distress and disability.
View ArticleThe 'gay cure' experiments that were written out of scientific history
For the first hour, they just talked. He was nervous; he'd never done this before. She was understanding, reassuring: let's just lie down on the bed together, she said, and see what happens. Soon,...
View ArticleScientists discover noninvasive technique to monitor migraines
New UBC research has found that amplified electroencephalograms (EEGs) can produce diagnostic results of a brainwave associated with migraines and epilepsy that are comparable to the current, more...
View ArticleCan the brain feel it? The world's smallest extracellular needle-electrodes
A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology...
View ArticleRobot reduces need for open brain surgery to map epileptic seizures
A minimally invasive robotic device is eliminating the need for some patients to undergo open brain surgery to pinpoint the origin of their epileptic seizures. The device, in use at Duke and a small...
View ArticleNew tools detect serious gut conditions
Researchers at FlexiMap, a spin-out company from the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute (ABI), are developing tools that will revolutionise our understanding of the stomach and intestine...
View ArticleMaking brain implants smaller could prolong their lifespan
Many diseases, including Parkinson's disease, can be treated with electrical stimulation from an electrode implanted in the brain. However, the electrodes can produce scarring, which diminishes their...
View ArticleElectrically stimulating your brain can boost memory – but here's one reason...
The first time I heard that shooting electrical currents across your brain can boost learning, I thought it was a joke.
View ArticleNew brain mapping tool produces higher resolution data during brain surgery
Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during surgery and distinguish between healthy and diseased tissues. The device provides higher resolution neural readings than existing tools...
View ArticleA noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation—Electrodes placed on the...
Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson's disease patients. This approach, known as deep brain stimulation,...
View ArticleIndividualizing deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease
Working with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and Würzburg, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been examining the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of...
View ArticleResearchers identify best practices for cochlear implant hearing preservation
Cochlear implants that have electrodes designed without wire perform better than those with wires for long-term hearing preservation, a Mount Sinai researcher has reported in a first-of-its-kind study....
View ArticleWireless peripheral nerve stimulation safe and effective
(HealthDay)—Wireless peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is beneficial for chronic intractable pain secondary to post-herpetic neuralgia, according to a case report published online June 20 in PAIN...
View ArticleTiny embedded electrodes pick up nerve signals loud and clear
Flexible microelectrodes embedded in canine nerve bundles show recording success with latest test, bringing the devices a step closer to human application.
View ArticleSimulations signal early success for fractal-based retinal implants
Computer simulations of electrical charges sent to retinal implants based on fractal geometry have University of Oregon researchers moving forward with their eyes focused on biological testing.
View ArticleElectrical stimulation improves paralyzed patients' function
Nearly 282,000 people in the U.S. live with paralysis following a spinal cord injury (SCI). A review of more than 90 studies found that electrical stimulation may help restore function in those...
View ArticleBrain implant tested in human patients found to improve memory recall
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine has conducted experiments involving implanting electrodes into the brains of...
View ArticleLLNL-developed microelectrodes enable automated sorting of neural signals
Thin-film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that...
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