Virtual reality helps breast cancer patients cope with chemotherapy
...vention because it is interactive, engages several senses simultaneously and immerses participants in a new world, thereby blocking out their current and often stressful environment. That stressful environment was almost too much for chemotherapy patient Donna Honeycutt of Elon, N.C. She worried that she wo...Study provides new insights about brain organization
...brain organization. "One theory is that individual senses have separate areas of the brain dedicated to them...ls that are normally responsive to these different senses are already found." Wallace said the finding is also important because it suggests that the proces...Unraveling the secrets of the brain's smallest cells
...lum is thought to act as a link between the body's senses and its movements, such as guiding the finger across a surface smoothly and efficiently. However, scientists still know very little about how the cerebellum does its job. The group's findings could ultimately help researchers understand more about mo......ry could come back to you through just one of your senses being re-awakened." "In an extreme case such as a survival situation, by creating memory associations you would learn to anticipate the pounce of a predator from a number of sensory cues a pattern of footprints in the sand, a rustling of a bush, or ...New system would vastly improve heart defibrillation
...rised mainly of a battery and large capacitor, and senses electrical activity in the heart. An electrode extends through a vein inside of the heart and records an ECG 24/7. If the computer reads an abnormal ECG, it will deliver a strong electrical shot to the whole heart. When arrhythmia starts, it gene...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...ing what is the mechanism, how the neuron, once it senses the environment, couples with the motor activity. This provides information for that kind of puzzle," she says of the newly published work. The researchers are looking for other molecules that also play a role in directing axonal growth...Scientists uncover new mechanism for the amygdala in fear recognition
... brain as passively receiving information from the senses about the world. This study shows that there are mechanisms in the brain that allow us to actively seek out information in the environment in the first place," said Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D., UI adjunct professor of neurology and professor of psychology a...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...th of the cochlea, the organ of the inner ear that senses sound. Receiving sonic vibrations through the eardrum and bones of the middle ear, hair cells convert them to electrical signals that are carried to the brain by the auditory nerve. Among the earliest structures to form in embryonic development, ha...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...) with specific brain activity. During an OBE, one senses that the "self" departs the body so that the body and the world can be viewed from "outside." Healthy volunteers imagined an OBE, mentally shifting their visual perspective and body position. Evoked potential mapping revealed selective activation at ......ng sense of the information that flows through our senses every day the colors and shapes we see, the textures of the objects we feel, the sounds ranging from the cooing of children to the screech of tires on pavement that we hear morning to night. Our brain stem sorts the bluster of information in ways th...