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Could oxytocin nasal spray help children with autism by making faces less overwhelming?

PsyPost 31 Mar 2025
The researchers analyzed the brain scan data to compare brain activity between the groups and to see how brain activity changed after oxytocin treatment ... These reductions in brain activity were not observed in the placebo group.
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How Being Bilingual Affects Your Brain

Greek Reporter 31 Mar 2025
Seamlessly switching from one language to another, called “code switching,” may also help bilingual people juggle multiple complex tasks at once and keep their brains active.
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New thought-to-speech tech helps paralyzed patients talk naturally again

Interesting Engineering 31 Mar 2025
This neuroprosthesis translates brain activity related to speech (from the motor cortex) into spoken words using AI ... Previous BCI research suffered from an 8-second delay in translating brain activity to speech.
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This sugar substitute may actually make you feel more hungry, study says

WPTV 31 Mar 2025
Consuming sucralose, a popular sugar substitute, could alter your brain activity to increase your appetite, a new study found ... the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates appetite and body weight.
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A Brain Implant Can Convert Thoughts to Speech

Time Magazine 31 Mar 2025
Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical trial ... A team in California recorded the woman’s brain activity using electrodes while she spoke sentences silently in her brain.
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Stroke patient’s thoughts converted into speech almost instantly

The Times/The Sunday Times 31 Mar 2025
Researchers implanted an array of electrodes in her brain, allowing them to track the electrical activity ... Brain implant that’s ahead of Musk in the race to read minds.
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A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

Stars and Stripes 31 Mar 2025
Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak ... A team in California recorded the woman’s brain activity using electrodes while she spoke sentences silently in her brain.
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I’m a neurologist — I eat these 8 foods to keep my brain healthy

New York Post 31 Mar 2025
What the heart wants, the brain wants too ... Its active compound is curcumin, an antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties that may benefit brain health by potentially disrupting amyloid plaques, which are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
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These 4 foods can help grow new brain cells

The Times of India 31 Mar 2025
Shintani, turmeric is yet another spice that has curcumin, an active compound that has a number of potential advantages for the brain, such as lowering inflammation, raising docosahexaenoic acid ...
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Do You Know About the Afib and Dementia Connection? Doctors Explain

Knoxville Daily Sun 31 Mar 2025
Simple daily habits like Mediterranean-style eating patterns and consistent physical activity have strong evidence for both cardiovascular and brain protection." ... AFib's effects on the brain extend beyond obvious strokes.
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Mind-reading device allows paralysed people to speak fluently

AOL 31 Mar 2025
Previously, it was not known if intelligible speech could be streamed from the brain in real time. “That’s ongoing work, to try to see how well we can actually decode these paralinguistic features from brain activity.
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Bad Sleep Linked To Alzheimer's-Related Brain Changes

Oelwein Daily Register 31 Mar 2025
Prior research has shown that sleep deprivation alters metabolic activity in the inferior parietal region, which helps different areas of the brain work cooperatively, researchers said ... Good sleep can help protect brain health.
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Fuel your brain: The best nutrition plan for exam success

The Times of India 31 Mar 2025
Exams demand best mental performance, and what you eat has a significant impact on brain function, memory recall, and focus ... Avocados, almonds, and seeds contain healthy fats, which facilitate brain cell communication and memory.
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The fascinating reason you forget what you're doing when you walk into a room - ...

The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
It happens because our brain naturally compartmentalises activities and information, based on environmental contexts, such as rooms or specific places. The brain 'resets' ... THE BRAIN'S FILING CABINET.
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Optical illusion: Only a true animal lover can spot the hidden cat in 7 seconds

The Times of India 31 Mar 2025
Optical illusions attack cognition and perception, so they are a favorite in brain-training activities.Today, we have a thrilling visual challenge for you! In the above picture, an outdoor setting is shown.
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