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Researchers observe decision making in brain – and influence outcomes
A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice. By Taylor Kubota
In the course of deciding whether to keep reading this article, you may change your mind several times. While your final choice will be obvious to an observer – you’ll continue to scroll and read, or you’ll click on another article – any internal deliberations you had along the way will most likely be inscrutable to anyone but you. That clandestine hesitation is the focus of research, published Jan. 20 in Nature, by Stanford University researchers who study how cognitive deliberations are reflected in neural activity.
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Promising nanobodies against COVID-19 produced by llamas
Thought LeadersDr. David BrodyProfessor of NeurologyUniformed Services University
In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Dr. David Brody about his latest research that involved discovering nanobodies produced by llamas that could help combat coronavirus.
What provoked your research into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic?
We are neuroscientists, so it was a bit of a shift in direction! For several years TJ and I had been testing out how to use nanobodies to make brain imaging better. When the pandemic broke, we thought this is a once in a lifetime, all-hands-deck situation and joined the fight.
In this article, we look at some of the best hand exercises for carpal tunnel.
Alongside other treatment methods, people may find these exercises helpful in relieving symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
What is carpal tunnel?
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The carpal tunnel is a passage between the wrist and the hand that contains tendons, ligament, blood vessels, nerves, and bones.
The median nerve runs through this passage, from the forearm to the hand. The median nerve provides sensation to some of the fingers, including the thumb.
Excessive pressure to the wrist can compress the median nerve. This may happen as a result of a wrist injury, repetitive movements, or rheumatoid arthritis.
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(Boston) Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a higher risk of complications including ischemic stroke, cognitive decline, heart failure, myocardial infarction and death. AF frequently is undetected until complications such as stroke or heart failure occur.
While the public and clinicians have an intense interest in detecting AF earlier, the most appropriate strategies to detect undiagnosed AF and medical prognosis and therapeutic implications of AF detected by screening are uncertain.
A new report led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researcher Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, builds upon a recently conducted National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute s virtual workshop that focused on identifying key research priorities related to AF screening.