The findings revealed that brain activity in parietal lobe, the brain area that assimilates sensory information and plays a crucial role in navigation, decreased by 37 percent. The activity in occipital lobe, the area that processes visual information, was also reduced.
E-cigarettes pose a huge health risk to users, who more often than not are adolescents and young adults
Alleging that the candidate vaccine was not safe, he has also sought cancelling approval for its testing, 'manufacture and distribution', failing which legal action would be taken.
Will the beard continue to be in vogue once WFH wraps up? asks Sandeep Goyal.
Study finds link between childhood obesity, school performance.
'Have ghee with rice, roti or dal, and remember to enjoy and cherish its impact on your life and the life of your child.'
Doctors at Cambridge University's Medical Research Council's cognition and brain siences unit made startling doscovery when they managed to communicate with a man who was in a coma for seven years, The Guardian reported. The doctors devised a technique to enable the 29-year old comatose patient to answer simple questions as a yes or no, through the use of a hi-tech scanner, monitoring his brain activity.
One in 30 women suffering from breast cancer is expected to die from this condition.
'You know the factors against you and those in favour, and you use the weapons you have in accordance with the strategy you've developed.'
A new study has the answer to your embarrassing alcohol moment.
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Turns out, food high in unsaturated fat may protect against cardiovascular diseases.
Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have shown that changes in brain activity, triggered by physical exercise, may help reduce cigarette cravings.
Cell phones don't cause cancer, says a new study, published in the British Medical Journal, thus putting an end to the debate over whether mobile devices harm people.
Men who most frequently wore boxers had significantly higher sperm concentrations and total sperm counts, a study has revealed.
For many, the first fag is just for the sake of trying out smoking, but for some, this first puff turns out to be a life time of addiction. Scientists have now attributed this tendency to the brain's procession of 'rewarding' and addictive properties of nicotine.
Abhijit also said he would like the government to issue a postage stamp in honour of his father.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee, Dr Shubha Tole tells us what it takes to be successful.
Developed by researchers at the University of California and California Institute of Technology, the device has enabled people to move a cursor around a screen and also fade and brighten images using just their brain.
American researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh found that with the aid of a sophisticated scanner and computer programme, they were able to determine how the brain lights up when thinking about different subjects.
Amrita Singh scours the market for the smartest health devices going.
Your fondness for ice-creams, cakes and chocolates may have nothing to do with taste buds, say researchers who claim that the human brain 'senses' foods that are high in calories and 'rewards' people by releasing hormones that make them feel happier. Such an appeal for sugary foods may imply that the thing called 'sweet tooth' does not exist.
Want to lose weight? Brinda Sapat lists out simple but effective strategies that will help you shed all those kilos!
It's a season of change at economic think tanks.
Arthritis, cancer, blindness, erectile dysfunction... smoking can have adverse effects on your overall health, warns Dr Harish Chafle, senior consultant-pulmonology and critical care, Global Hospitals, Mumbai.
Substantially cutting calories from the diet could slow the ageing process and increase life expectancy, according to a decades-long study of monkeys.
Moderate drinking has been associated with a lower risk of developing and dying from heart disease and stroke.
Is it possible to extend lifespans to, say, 120 years, or longer, asks Devangshu Datta.
Sleep, brain power and all the things that your gadget may be taking from you.
Kim's absences from official state media often spark speculation and rumors about his health.
'Why wouldn't so strategically-minded an adversary, such as China, not militarily exploit to the maximum Indian timidity, stupidity, and cupidity all along the LAC and legitimate, as it has done so often in the past, the fait accompli of incremental territorial grabs which, by the way, is its strategy and policy as implemented on the ground?'
The fungus, also called `black fungus', is present in the environment, but those with suppressed immunity or co-morbidities are more vulnerable to its infection, he said.
Long-term stress impairs memory, it is often claimed. Now, a new research has revealed that even short-term stress can have the same effect. Researchers at the University of California have found that short periods of stress lasting as little as a few hours can affect brain cell communication and undermine learning as well as memory, the Journal of Neuroscience reported.
OXSIGHT, founded in 2016 to create wearable technology devices based on how the brain manages visual information, began conducting trials in India two years ago in partnership with leading eye hospitals and clinics.
Vitamin D deficiency could increase risk of dementia, says study.
Stricter intellectual norms can help India grow faster.
These findings further emphasise the importance of quitting smoking.
Several pregnant women taking Ayurvedic medicines made in India were detected with dangerous lead poisoning which can damage the brain, kidneys and nervous systems, US researches have claimed after investigating cases associated with the use of such traditional drugs.
Kuber Sharma offers his opinion on scientific research that associates male cheating and adultery with genetics.
