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 Watching sports is good for your brain (17/4/2024)

Watching sports boosts well-being, offering positive psychological and neurophysiological benefits

 Hussein Alawieh wears a cap packed with electrodes that is hooked up to a computer and gather data by measuring electrical signals from the brain; the decoder interprets that information and translates it into game action

New brain-computer interface allows people to play games with their thoughts

 Research from West Virginia University suggests that employee motivation and productivity may increase when game-like elements such as progress bars and badges that are integrated into monotonous industrial jobs.

In order to cope with the boredom of doing monotonous work, making it a game works better

 Congestion in a hospital emergency room

Have you already forgotten COVID-19? It may still be affecting your memory and cognition

Walnuts

How does eating nuts impact your brain? - study

By MAYA ROSEMAN
 ‘Sodom and Gomorrah Afire’ by Jacob de Wet II, 1680

Sodom, Gomorrah, atomic bomb: Altruistic attempts to avert mass destruction

By ALBERT JACOB
 Test person Niklas Thiel poses with an electroencephalography (EEG) cap which measures brain activity, at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) in Garching near Munich

Two-stage brain coding explained by University of Haifa study

 Neuralink logo and Elon Musk photo are seen in this illustration taken, December 19, 2022

Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human

By REUTERS
 Graduate student Katie Bates studies a slice of rodent Parkinsonian brain tissue slices in the Nanomedicine Lab at UCL's School of Pharmacy in London.

Neuroscientists find the importance of dopamine in relationships through rodent study

Monkeys

Scientists invent brain chip to reduce risk-taking in monkeys

 From the trailer of "After Death"

Understanding the process of death: How you change when life ends

By Walla!
 Painting of woman –  Researchers discover that just like in mice, human tears contain a chemical signal that blocks conspecific male aggression.

Exposure to tears leads to lower aggression in males

Move only two matches to solve the exercise

Puzzling challenge: Rearrange 2 matches to solve the math equation

 A fat cat is seen lounging in the living room after a hearty Friday night dinner.

Can owning a cat increase the risk of schizophrenia-related disorders? - study

If you need surgery, it may be time to quit smoking (illustrative)

How is smoking linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias? - study

 A PICTURE OF Shani Nicole Louk, who was missing following the Supernova massacre on October 7, is displayed during a demonstration last month by family members and supporters of hostages who are being held in Gaza after they were kidnapped from Israel by Hamas. Louk’s death was later confirmed by I

Traces of emotional trauma from war? Here's how you can erase them - study

Unable to get 7 hours of sleep at night? Don’t follow with an important decision

Unable to get 7 hours of sleep at night? Don’t follow with an important decision

 Illustration of a brain.

Memories of trauma trigger distinct brain activity, say Yale researchers