Control of Fear Extinction
What happens in the brain when we are faced with threat and how does it suppress fear caused by traumatic experiences? A new paper by the groups of Daria Peleg-Raibstein and [...]
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Robot-assisted Therapy of Hand Function
A new study shows that robot-assisted therapy of hand function after stroke is as successful in improving upper limb function as conventional therapy. The results by Raffaele [...]
Oxytocin Modulates the Social Brain in Autism
Can a hormone be used to treat autism? A new study from the neuromodulation lab at KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with Prof. Nici Wenderoth shows that repeated [...]
Modulation of Dream Content
Many people have vivid bodily experiences in their dreams, even though the body is not actually moving. We have now shown that stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex can [...]
Brain & Body Integrity Dysphoria
Persons with Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) feel disturbingly uncomfortable in their body and seek the amputation of a limb to feel complete. We found abnormalities in the [...]
Sleep Spindles and Schizophrenia
Can sleep be used to diagnose early onset schizophrenia in adolescents? A new study suggests that certain brain processes are altered during sleep in adolescent schizophrenia [...]
DBS and Swimming
Patients who received deep brain stimulation devices are warned not to swim in deep water alone. Daniel Waldvogel, Christian Baumann of the Department of Neurology, [...]
A Game Measuring Movement Control
A computer game using movement sensors can help assess the success of rehabilitation therapy in children with brain injury. This may have implications for the future [...]
Drug Discovery using Brain Activity Patterns
Fishing out the best therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric diseases is complex. Mehmet Fatih Yanik and colleagues show that the use of high throughput technologies [...]
Sleep-Wake Rhythms in Synapses Unraveled
Do we sleep because we are tired or because we follow a circadian rhythm? Steven Brown, Shiva Tyagarajan, Charo Robles (LMU Munich) and colleagues looked at the molecular [...]