Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Strange brain wave patterns found in dying comatose patients suggest they …
A new study demonstrates that in utero exposure to mother's antiepileptic or antidepressant medication may affect the development of the newborn brain networks. Foetal exposure to medicines can affect brain development of infants: Study In the study by the University of Helsinki, novel mathematical methods were developed to allow future research on how commonly used drugs or other environmental conditions …
Alphabet’s experimental research group, X, has developed a portable brain-monitoring hardware to help researchers track people’s changing mental health states over time. “Amber’s system can be used to collect resting state EEG and event-related potentials with our software that time-locks a task to the EEG measurement,” Obi Felten, project lead, Amber, said in a blog post. By designing specific game-like …
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have shown that electroencephalogram can be used to measure brainwaves in workers, to assess their mental sharpness, especially during a crisis. The research team has used EEG measurement to assess the cognitive workload of human operators in a chemical plant control room. Mr. Rajagopalan said whether human errors, which cause 70% of …
