Predicting ICU Outcomes; Post-Stroke Brain Stimulation
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Deep brain stimulation shows promise in treating binge eating disorder
A well-timed jolt of high-frequency electricity to a region of the brain implicated in food cravings appears to tamp down the impulses at the heart of binge eating disorder,…
Can Brain Stimulation Improve Motor Skill Learning?
Scientists refer to this as a "shift in the speed-accuracy tradeoff", and it constitutes a key feature of learning. One of the ways the brain achieves this shift is by grouping individual…
Improve Your Episodic Memory With Magnetic Stimulation
However, a study publishing in the open access journal PLOS Biology on September 28th by Mircea van der Plas and Simon Hanslmayr from the University of Glasgow and colleagues, shows that…