Tag: NEUROLOGY

Share Got Facebook on the brain? It could be because Facebook is your brain. Sort of. That's what Carnegie Mellon neurology researcher Alison Barth claims in a new study published in the December 22nd issue of a journal called Neuron. As LiveScience explains, Barth and her team of researchers arrived at their conclusion after identifying and observing a small group of highly active neurons in ...

This week, an attorney from Brooklyn will attempt to make U.S. legal history by using a lie-detection brain scan to prove that an important witness is telling the truth. Attorney David Levin is currently representing Cynette Wilson, who claims that her temp agency employer, CoreStaff Services, gave her less desirable assignments after she complained about sexual harassment at her job site. Another ...

Share As navigation technology has become more sophisticated, and more easily accessible, people have become increasingly dependent upon GPS and online maps in finding their ways around town. But according to some, your GPS may be doing a lot more long-term harm than short-term good. As former American Demographics editor Brad Edmonson tells NPR, "Getting directions from a computer is like ...

If football players need to run and lift weights to condition their bodies, it would make sense for the same principle to apply to cognitive abilities, as well. That's the idea, at least, behind games like 'Brain Age'; play a few brain-teasing games a few times a week, and end up improving mental function in the long run. Many scientists, though, have long wondered about whether or not these ...

The folks at Hitachi and Hitachi Kokusai Denki Engineering recently showed off a new brain analyzer that wraps around your noggin. It seems like scientists are always finding new ways to dig deeper into our heads, but this device is unique because it's so compact -- even if it does look like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. According to DVICE, the encephalometer (a fancy word for brain ...

While it is the stuff of 'Johnny Mnemonic,' 'eXistenZ' and a host of other cyberpunk cyborg films, hacking nerves might actually emerge as one of the next great advances in the study of neuropathy. In a study from 2006, researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland gave one unidentified paraplegic patient the ability to move their normally motionless knee at the touch of a button. ...

By now, it's pretty much common knowledge that texting while driving isn't such a safe idea. As the New York Times reports, though, even texting while walking can be pretty perilous, as well. While most injuries incurred by pedestrian texters are pretty, um, pedestrian, doctors say they've seen a marked increase in the number of patients treated for much more serious text-induced injuries. A ...

You may think that you've taken preemptive measures, and are immune to the pop-up barrages and other advertising gimmicks typical of online retail sites. But according to a recent article in the New York Times, you're probably just as vulnerable as ever. That's because more and more retailers are employing advertising techniques based on something called neuromarketing -- the neurological ...

Advances in modern science have led to several recent breakthroughs in prosthetics. From telescoping robotic arms, to homemade, shoestring-budget limbs, to runway-worthy appendage alternatives, it seems that losing a limb today isn't quite the same cataclysmic, lifestyle-altering tragedy that it was even a few years ago. Now, doctors in Rome may have just broached the next frontier in prosthesis. ...

Biology and technology are increasingly crossing paths these days, so it comes as no surprise that researchers have found a way to literally fuse the two, creating implantable technology for the 21st century. Researchers have developed a new type of super-thin silicon transistor, which can be embedded on a dissolvable silk-based film (pictured). Brian Litt, associate professor of neurology and ...