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Do blind people really experience complete darkness?
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Music as Alternative Therapy
Does music serve as an alternative medicine enhancement?
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Association of British Neurologists: revised (2015) guidelines for prescribing disease-modifying treatments in multiple sclerosis
Pract Neurol doi:10.1136/practneurol-2015-001139
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Digital dependence 'eroding human memory'
An over-reliance on using computers and search engines is weakening people's memories, according to a study. It showed many people use computers instead of memorising information. Many adults who could still recall their phone numbers from childhood could not remember their current work number or numbers of family members.
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The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed. Joy Milne's husband, Les, died in June, aged 65. He worked as a consultant anaesthetist before being diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 45.
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Can These Glasses Help The Colourblind? We Put EnChroma To The Test
A company called EnChroma has built a pair of glasses that claims to restore colour vision for the colourblind. Predictably, the internet has erupted with excitement. But it’s not the first... By Diane Kelly and Maddie Stone.
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A father’s desperate – but dangerous – strategy to keep his ‘brain dead’ son on life support
“Hey, we need the police stat, to the hospital. We have a family member with a gun.” This is the call that a staff member at Tomball Regional Medical Center put in 11 months ago, when George Pickering of Pinehurst, Tex., angrily pulled out a 9 mm handgun while standing at his son’s hospital bedside. Gary Hammond, Tomball police’s head of criminal investigations, told the Houston Chronicle at the time that Pickering was “distraught” over the care his son...
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Sleep isn’t needed to create long-term memories – just time out
Need to remember something important? Take a break. A proper one – no TV or flicking through your phone messages. It seems that resting in a quiet room for 10 minutes without stimulation can boost our ability to remember new information. The effect is particularly strong in people with amnesia, suggesting that they may not have lost the ability to form new memories after all.
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Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats
Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in the central thalamus, a region known to regulate arousal. (Dec. 17)
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Hypnosis may provide new option for ‘awake surgery’ for brain cancer
Could hypnosis help to reduce the psychological trauma associated with “awake craniotomy” for brain cancers? A new “hypnosedation” technique offers a new alternative...
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Taking vitamin D may benefit people with multiple sclerosis
Taking a high dose of vitamin D3 is safe for people with multiple sclerosis and may help regulate the body's hyperactive immune response...
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The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind
Neurologist Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process he almost lost his mind. The brain surgery lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. In the afternoon, after the anesthesia had worn off, the neurosurgeon came in, removed his wire-frame glasses, and held them up for his bandaged patient to examine. “What are these called?” he asked.
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More evidence emerges for “transmissible Alzheimer’s” theory
Autopsies reveal plaques in the brains of people who died after receiving grafts from cadavers.
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Been anywhere nice this year? Brain surgery where patients are kept chatting
Astonishing operation to remove tumour requires subject to be conscious and talking to steer surgeon away from parts of the ‘eloquent brain.’ By Caroline Davies.
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Bang to rights
Science is taking big steps toward understanding the impact of concussion. (Mar. 5)
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New Blood Test Could Reduce Harmful Effects Of Sports Concussions
A concussion can do serious damage — unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more clear that symptoms vary from person to person, so identifying one isn’t easy. Researchers from Orlando Health, however, might have a solution. They have found evidence of concussions in patients who sustained a head injury up to seven days prior using a simple blood test. And it seems to work on people of all ages.
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What It’s Like Being a Sudden Savant
Before her accident Heather Thompson was, by any measure, very successful. She lived just outside Seattle’s urban sprawl, was a CEO and a nationally respected business strategist, married, and had a two-year-old daughter. “I was at the pinnacle of my career,” she said. Then… By Tanya Basu.
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Surfing Uncertainty
Do our dynamic brains predict the world? Andy Clark’s masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data. By Anil Ananthaswamy.
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Dead could be brought 'back to life' in groundbreaking project
A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs.
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What the Science of Touch Says About Us
On a bitter, soul-shivering, damp, biting gray February day in Cleveland—that is to say, on a February day in Cleveland—a handless man is handling a nonexistent ball. Igor Spetic lost his right hand when his forearm was pulped in an industrial accident six years ago and had to be amputated. In an operation four years ago, a team of surgeons implanted a set of small translucent “interfaces” into the neural circuits of his upper arm.
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