LONDON (Reuters) – One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 patients, mostly Americans, was diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic …
Read More »One-third of COVID survivors suffer from neurological or mental disorders, study finds
LONDON (Reuters) – One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 patients, mostly Americans, was diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic …
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What do humans have that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size of our much larger brains, and now, we’ve …
Read More »Neuroscientists detect confused ‘zombie’ cells in human brain after death
You would think that once a human dies, the body would stop doing things; without blood and air circulation, internal systems would quickly deplete. But due to a strange quirk of biology, …
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Image of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner.Picture: Fred TANNEAU / AFP (fake images) Even after we die, some of our brain cells can experience one last, momentary …
Read More »AI can now learn which faces are attractive to it directly from their brain waves
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in reality it is much deeper than that. The concept of physical beauty resides in the mind, defined by the …
Read More »Powerful X-rays reveal unique differences in neurons of people with schizophrenia
By capturing details of brain cells on a nano-scale, researchers have uncovered evidence that the neurons of people with schizophrenia could have unique differences in thickness and curvature, and this could even …
Read More »What is it and what does it mean for virus patients
About a third of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 will have some type of neurological symptoms, such as seizures and strokes. We don’t have solid data on how many will fight brain fog, …
Read More »Alien cells may explain COVID’s ‘brain fog’
Long-term neurological symptoms, such as “brain fog” that some COVID-19 patients experience, may be caused by a unique pathology: occlusion of brain capillaries by large megakaryocyte cells, a new report suggests. The …
Read More »Partition done by LSD Anatomy gives brain ‘free to own’, scientists discover
Where does the mind get from the brain? While there is no dearth of research into the effects of psychedelics, drugs such as LSD still have much to teach us about how …
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