Breanna Olson, who has ALS, used an EEG headset from Dentsu Lab and NTT to control a mixed‑reality avatar live on stage in Amsterdam in December. The Waves of Will project tests non‑invasive brain–computer control to restore personal expression for people with motor‑degenerative conditions.
Read moreA Translational Psychiatry study found that adding a three-day course of rTMS to standard care improved sleep duration and efficiency and reduced frontal hyperactivity in adults (18–40) with acute influenza; IgM and neutrophils correlated with sleep impairment. The trial was nonrandomized (n=55) and limited to younger adults.
Read moreIn a Gates Cambridge Conversations interview, Julia Maybury and Sri Jagannathan described their sleep research, covering human memory precision, fruit‑fly neural mapping, and trade‑offs between lab EEG and at‑home wearables.
Read moreJiangsu Cancer Hospital is recruiting 120 patients into a double‑blind RCT (ChiCTR2500112808) testing two sessions of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (TaVNS) versus sham to reduce perioperative anxiety in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery; primary outcome is HADS‑A measured days 1–3 and at three months.
Read moreA University of Cologne–Charité team published an open dataset of hourly symptom diaries matched to bilateral wrist accelerometry from 66 Parkinson’s patients (393.8 days of concurrent data). The files, metadata and example Matlab scripts are available on OSF.
Read moreUCHealth and CU Anschutz performed Colorado’s first implanted brain–computer interface surgery, implanting a device in higher‑level brain areas to restore motor and sensory function and collect long‑term data on cognition and movement.
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