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.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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