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Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds

Neuroscience NewsApril 24, 2019

A neural decoder is able to use sound representations encoded in human cortical activity to synthesize audible speech. The technology could be used to help those with difficulties speaking to communicate freely.... Read More...

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Brain stimulation improves depression symptoms, restores brain waves in clinical study

Neuroscience NewsMarch 11, 2019

Transcranial alternating current brain stimulation (tACS) significantly reduced symptoms in people diagnosed with major depressive disorder in a pilot clinical trial.... Read More...

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Voluntary Control of Brainwaves in Deep Brain of Parkinson’s Patients

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 6, 2019

Researchers have developed a neurofeedback system which allows Parkinson's patients to voluntarily control beta wave activity in the subthalamic nucleus.... Read More...

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Real Time Feedback Tames Parkinson’s Brainwaves

Neuroscience NewsDecember 17, 2018

Researchers report a neurofeedback system allows those with Parkinson's to voluntarily control brain waves associated with symptoms of the disorder.... Read More...

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Parents’ Brain Activity Echoes Their Infant’s When Playing Together

Neuroscience NewsDecember 14, 2018

When parents play with their child, their brains show similar bursts of brain activity. The activity is linked to their baby's attention patterns, and not their own, researchers report.... Read More...

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Babies Kicking in the Womb Are Creating a Map of Their Bodies

Neuroscience NewsNovember 30, 2018

A new study reports kicks and movements of unborn babies in the womb allow the child to map their bodies and assist in the eventual exploration of their surroundings.... Read More...

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How Working Memory Gets You Through the Day

Neuroscience NewsOctober 24, 2018

Researchers present a new model of working memory which helps explain how the brain holds information and executes volitional control.... Read More...

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Memory Brainwaves Look the Same in Sleep and Wakefulness

Neuroscience NewsOctober 9, 2018

A new study reports the brain mechanisms responsible for triggering memory are identical, whether a person is awake or asleep.... Read More...

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How the Brain Learns During Sleep

Neuroscience NewsOctober 5, 2018

A new study sheds additional light on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Researchers report rapid fluctuations in gamma band activity in the hippocampus during nREM sleep helps facilitate memory reactivation.... Read More...

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Researchers Uncover the Mathematics of Brain Waves

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 27, 2018

Researchers have developed a new mathematical model, which incorporates EEG data and evolutionary game theory, that bridges the gap between waves and random fluctuations in the brain.... Read More...

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Reading Risk Behavior in the Brain

Neuroscience NewsJune 20, 2018

EEG technology allows researchers to predict risk taking behaviors in people. Researchers say higher frontal midline theta power is linked to higher cognitive control, allowing people to weigh up options more intensively during the decision making process.... Read More...

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Waves Move Across the Human Brain to Support Memory

Neuroscience NewsJune 7, 2018

Alpha and theta oscillations move rhythmically across the brain, reflecting neural activity propagating across the cortex to help form working memory, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Cannabis addiction influenced by genetic make-up

Sleep frees the hippocampus for new memory contents

Off with her head! Did Anne Boleyn really try to speak after being beheaded?

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Off with her head! Did Anne Boleyn really try to speak after being beheaded?

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brain waves

Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds

Brain stimulation improves depression symptoms, restores brain waves in clinical study

Voluntary Control of Brainwaves in Deep Brain of Parkinson’s Patients

Real Time Feedback Tames Parkinson’s Brainwaves

Babies Kicking in the Womb Are Creating a Map of Their Bodies

How Working Memory Gets You Through the Day

Memory Brainwaves Look the Same in Sleep and Wakefulness

How the Brain Learns During Sleep

Researchers Uncover the Mathematics of Brain Waves

Reading Risk Behavior in the Brain

Waves Move Across the Human Brain to Support Memory