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Scientists Find a Way to Convert Brainwaves Into Sentences

Brainwaves are the way brain cells communicate with each other, and the result of that exchange are complex behaviors, such as emotions, movements and even language.

Paralyzed Patient Communicates Through Mind-Reading Tech

In a recent experiment published in The New England Journal of Medicine , a group of neuroscientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), trained a computer to pick up on the brainwaves of a paralyzed patient suffering from anarthria and turn those brainwaves into actual words, all

Can Holding Your Partner's Hand Ease Pain? Studies Say Yes

To test this further, Electroencephalography helped to actually measure this brainwave activity. They discovered one more important thing: "It appears that pain totally interrupts this interpersonal synchronization between couples and touch brings it back."

Here's Why You Should Hold Your Partner's Hands More Often

When the partners were in the same room, whether they were touching or not, the researchers noted some brainwave synchronicity in the alpha mu band – a wavelength associated with focused attention. This sync was strongest when the pair were holding hands and the woman was in pain.

This Classical Sonata Can Alleviate Symptoms of Epilepsy

[related_articles] Researchers measured the effect of music on the brain through brain implant sensors set to detect a brainwave phenomenon called interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs). These brain events are detected in epilepsy, and their recurrence can predict the likelihood of seizures.

The Many Mental Health Benefits of Rocking a Song

And this connection is more profound than you may imagine, as people who sing together synchronize both their heartbeats and their brainwaves , as established in two separate studies. So why don’t we sing more often? It boils down to critique, or fear thereof.

Why Don't We Have These Japanese Things in Our Countries?

And now that seemingly everyone is jetting around on turbocharged bullet trains with the stress of work aggravating their senses, someone has come up with a brainwave: to fit train carriages with tension reducing foot spas. It does look quite pleasant, does it not? 7.

Suffer From Headaches & Fatigue? Do These 8 Things

Another more surprising advantage of this activity is that it may alter your brainwave patterns so that you feel more focused and relaxed. 8.

7 Mind-Boggling Facts About the Psychology of Dreaming

Animals dream too According to numerous studies, when animals are in the REM stage of sleep, they show the same brainwaves we do when we are dreaming.