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Study reveals how brain knows when something is different ANI | Updated: Dec 19, 2020 18:58 IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists discovered how a particular set of high-frequency brain waves may help us know unconsciously if something is different by comparing memories of the past with present experiences.
In this study involving epilepsy patients conducted by the National Institutes of Health, it was discovered how a set of high-frequency brain waves may help us spot these kinds of differences between the past and the present.
Imagine you are sitting on the couch in your living room reading. You do it almost every night. But then, suddenly, when you look up you notice this time something is different. Your favourite picture hanging on the wall is tilted ever so slightly. In a study involving epilepsy patients, National Institutes of Health scientists discovered how a set of high-frequency brain waves may
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Both shots were deemed more than 94% effective at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections, making them critical disease-fighting tools at this stage in the pandemic. The coronavirus is now among the leading causes of death in the US, killing more than 3,000 people across the country every day.
Before the shot was released to the public, more than 20,000 volunteers around the world tried it out over a period of several months, with no major safety concerns reported among trial volunteers from the US to Argentina, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, and Turkey. Common but temporary side effects reported in the trials included pain at the injection site (in the arm), fatigue, and headaches, generally lasting about a day or two post-jab.
The same was generally true of Moderna s new coronavirus vaccine, which was also tested out in more than 15,000 volunteers across the US.
Both shots were deemed more than 94% effective at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections, making them critical disease-fighting tools at this stage in the pandemic. The coronavirus is now among the leading causes of death in the US, killing more than 3,000 people across the country every day.
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Patterns of brain activity can be used to forecast seizure risk in epilepsy patients several days in advance, according to a new analysis of data obtained from clinically approved brain implants by neuroscientists at UC San Francisco, the University of Bern, and the University of Geneva. For forty years, efforts to predict seizures have focused on developing early warning systems, which at best could give patients warnings just a few seconds or minutes in advance of a seizure. This is the first time anyone has been able to forecast seizures reliably several days in advance, which could really allow people to start planning their lives around when they re at high or low risk, said Vikram Rao, MD, PhD, a neurologist at the UCSF Epilepsy Center, part of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. Rao was co-senior author of the new study, which was published December 17, 2020 in