Your Brain Reveals Who Your Friends Are Summary: By looking at how the brain responds to video clips, researchers are able to determine who your friends may be, a new study reveals. Source: Dartmouth College. You may perceive the world the way your friends do, according to a Dartmouth study finding that friends have similarContinue reading “Your Brain Reveals Who Your Friends Are”
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Study links a person’s visual long term memory to tracking how an object moves
Summary: A new study links a person’s visual long term memory to tracking how an object moves. Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine. As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and then finally realize it’s a superhero. But they haven’t just spotted the Man ofContinue reading “Study links a person’s visual long term memory to tracking how an object moves”
Neurons ‘Predict’ Drinking’s Restorative Effects Well Before They Unfold
By Leigh Beeson A new UC San Francisco study shows that specialized brain cells in mice “predict” the hydrating effects of drinking, deactivating long before the liquids imbibed can actually change the composition of the bloodstream. The results stand in stark contrast to current views of thirst regulation, which hold that the brain signals forContinue reading “Neurons ‘Predict’ Drinking’s Restorative Effects Well Before They Unfold”
Rehabilitation and physical medicine related research
Revisiting Physiologic and Psychologic Triggers that Increase SpasticityThe study concluded that although self-reports indicate a strong possibility of increasing spasticity, without objective examination, the true effects of these triggers on spasticity remain inconclusive. Most studies reviewed here were performed in the spinal cord injury population; therefore, it is not known whether these triggers induce similarContinue reading “Rehabilitation and physical medicine related research”