From Meta to Apple, companies are converging multiple sensors into powerful platforms. Powered by AI, these technologies blur the line between neural and non-neural data, while mapping our mental and health states.
Most of the participants are rural, monolingual, and quite a few have never received a formal education. These factors make them stand out from other global subjects of dementia studies.
Scientists in Austria are studying live human brain cells and comparing them to those of mice. Their findings raise questions about memory, culture, and what makes us ‘special’.
Neurodivergent voices are often excluded from policy discussions because their needs are seen as too complex or niche. But when they share lived experiences, they make these needs visible to policy-makers.
The studies in the journal Science have backed up the increasing body of research work showing that astrocytes are much more important than previously thought.
People who have tried antidepressants but they haven’t worked, may be offered TMS. It involves zapping areas of the brain associated with depression with pulsing magnetic fields.
Vidita Vaidya, winner of the $100,000 Infosys Prize in Life Sciences for 2022, could well be enabling the discovery of useful drugs for various mental health conditions.
The most severe condition listed was encephalopathy, marked by altered mental function ranging from mild confusion to coma, said Igor Koralnik, Igor Koralnik, one of the authors of study.
Being born with lots of neurons gives us the potential for a long and slow life. Neurons are the Lego pieces that build brains and process information.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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