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Air pollution is weakening children’s attention span, a new study suggests. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - a pollutant largely pumped out by road traffic - is linked to poorer attention span in children aged four to eight years old. This is particularly pronounced in boys, according to the researchers at Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Their study, published in the Environment International journal, adds to a growing body of evidence about the negative impact of air pollution during pregnancy and childhood on brain development. Only seven countries in the world breathe ...
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A new study has found that our brains are getting larger, which could be good news for reducing dementia risk. Researchers from the University of California analysed data from a cohort in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) which started in 1948 in the US and originally consisted of 5,209 men and women between the ages of 30 and 62. The study has continued for 75 years, meaning that it now includes participants born during the 1930s through the 1970s. Though it was originally designed to study cardiovascular diseases, the researchers focused on MRI results of more than 3,200 people. Published in ...
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Tan Le's groundbreaking work in neuroscience has deepened our understanding of the brain's inner workings. Now, she predicts that we will all use neural interfaces in our daily lives, and they will resemble easy-to-wear headphones. My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks with Tan Le, CEO of Emotiv, about the future of brain technology. How our daily life with neural interfaces will look likeImagine everyday items like your headphones, glasses, or hat could detect ...
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Elon Musk has claimed that his company Neuralink can restore sight in monkeys. On this X platform (formerly Twitter), the Tesla and SpaceX chief said his other company Neuralink had enabled blind monkeys to see with its brain chip technology. “The Blindsight implant is already working in monkeys,” he said on Thursday. The billionaire also said this Neuralink product would be called Blindsight, adding that the resolution would be low to begin with, like “early Nintendo graphics”, but that it could exceed normal human vision in the future. Musk added that “no monkey has died or been seriously in...
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People who speak more than five languages, known as polyglots, light up in the “language network” of the brain when they listen to languages that they speak, with stronger responses to the ones they are most proficient in. However, according to a new study, when listening to their native tongues, the brain’s activity was either similar or dropped off compared to non-native languages they were fluent in. “Something makes it a little bit easier to process - maybe it’s that you’ve spent more time using that language - and you get a dip in activity for the native language compared to other languag...
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A new study suggests that COVID-19 can impact cognitive function a year or more after people have contracted the virus. The study enrolled more than 140,000 participants and assessed the cognitive and memory abilities of individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 compared to those who had not been infected. Study participants were tasked with completing an online cognitive evaluation using a platform called Cognitron. The tasks were designed to identify nuanced changes to cognition such as memory, reasoning, attention, and impulsivity. “The potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on cognitive...
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Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depressionshe likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both of her parents had taken their lives. She was willing to try something extreme: Having electrodes implanted in her brain as part of an experimental therapy. Researchers say the treatment —- called deep brain stimulation, or DBS — could eventually help many of the nearly 3 million Americans like her with depression that resists other treatments. It's approved for conditions such as Parkinson's di...
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A new study has uncovered the first evidence that a few rare cases of Alzheimer’s disease may have been acquired through an obsolete medical procedure carried out decades ago. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological disorder and the most common form of dementia that most often impacts people over 65. The disease is thought to be caused by the accumulation of proteins such as the amyloid-beta protein in the brain. This causes plaques that disrupt brain functions, initially affecting memory and later areas that control language and social behaviour, according to Alzheimer Europe. In a new study, U...
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Elon Musk said his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its chip implants into a human brain. In a post on X on Monday, the billionaire said the patient is recovering well after the surgery on Sunday and the initial results show promising neuron spike detection. Neuralink aims to connect human brains to computers and would help tackle neurological conditions and “unlock human potential tomorrow,” according to the company website. The milestone initiates the company’s journey to commercial use. The US's medical regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the compan...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Scientists have successfully implanted and integrated human brain cells into newborn rats, creating a new way to study complex psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, and perhaps eventually test treatments. Studying how these conditions develop is incredibly difficult -- animals do not experience them like people, and humans cannot simply be opened up for research. Scientists can assemble small sections of human brain tissue derived from stem cells in petri dishes, and have already done so with more than a dozen brain regions. But in dishes, "neurons don't grow to...
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