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Do you have interesting to promote your weight loss?
If you yes, there are interesting study related with exercise and craving of junk foods. Despite the body’s need for energy after high-intensity exercises, a new study reported that people are less likely to crave junk foods compared with before exercise. If you want to loss weight, thus, just do it.
Nowadays many people are suffered from insomnia. This invention, called NeuroOn, is a sleeping eye mask helps people to sleep efficiently.
This mask has brain wave sensors that collect eye movement information during sleep.
Using these sensors, this mask analyzes the duration of REM sleep, evaluates sleep quality, and even wakes people up.
(Photo courtesy of IntelliClinic)
You can see the brain atlas from several modalities (fMRI, MRI, PET, etc…) for a various of diseases and normal brain.
A recent research implies that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps depressed patients to forget out their painful memories.
By inhibiting memory recall process using ECT, researchers found that participants’ ability to remember details of painful memory was impaired.
Moreover, they found that the effect of ECT was dependent on time, so that therapy might be effective for prolonged time.
Read more:
(News) Erasing Painful Memories With Shock Treatment
http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/22/erasing-painful-memories-with-shock-treatment/
(Article) An electroconvulsive therapy procedure impairs reconsolidation of episodic memories in humans
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3609.html
The researchers have found that music can help the patient with severe injury to remind their lives or memory.
Underlying mechanism is not fully understood. However, music may elicit the positive and negative emotion so memory can be activated.
If you are interested in this news, please click the following link.
(This image is from the website http://www.medicaldaily.com/pop-songs-help-brain-injured-patients-remember-study-shows-music-powerful-stimulus-265664)
Researchers have found that the reading can heighten the connectivity in the temporal sulcus which is associated with language processing.
These heightened connectivity is also seen in the central sulcus even though the reader spends long time in the fMRI scanner.
If you interested in this news, please click the following link.
Read more: http://www.futurity.org/reading-novels-leaves-shadow-activity-brain/
(This image is from http://www.futurity.org/reading-novels-leaves-shadow-activity-brain/)
Toolbox of iterative dual-regression with sparse prior was released on NITRC (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/iterdrwsp/)
Iterative Dual-Regression with Sparse Prior (IDRwSP) is aimed to better estimate an individual’s neuronal activation using the results of an independent component analysis (ICA) method applied to a temporally concatenated group of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data (i.e., Tc-GICA method).
In detail, an ordinary DR approach estimates the spatial patterns (SPs) of neuronal activation and corresponding time courses (TCs) specific to each individual’s fMRI data with two steps involving least-squares (LS) solutions. The proposed approach employs iterative LS solutions to refine both the individual SPs and TCs with an additional a priori assumption of sparseness in the SPs (i.e., minimally overlapping SPs) based on L(1)-norm minimization.
Toolbox was developed under MATLAB framework (additionally require SPM8).
Please refer the reference paper to know more details (click here), and site it when you want to use in research purpose.
(Kim YH, Kim J, Lee JH., Iterative approach of dual regression with a sparse prior enhances the performance of independent component analysis for group functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data., Neuroimage. 2012.)
Please enjoy it!
Yong-Hwan Kim (whiteneng@gmail.com)
Germany researchers have found that the deep brain stimulation (DBS) probably helps Parkinson’s patients drive.
As a result, Parkinson’s patients with deep brain stimulation have less errors than without treatment during driving task.
If you are interested in this article, please click the following link.
Read more: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270109.php
Some people can’t pass away the bakery or sweet treatment shop. There are some reasons in our brain.
Scientists have found that some of us are hard-wired to enjoy the sugary food. So, the human brain reacts differently to the sugary foods such as chocolate, cake, and so on.
If you are interested in this article, please click the below link.
Please refer to the news on recently published article in the journal Science.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5208/20131206/poor-brain-wiring-behind-dyslexia.htm