September 25 is International Ataxia Day. It is a disorder that decreases the ability to coordinate movements and can also be used as a term to refer to any of the more than 200 diseases of the nervous system that have these symptoms. It is estimated that in Spain about 8,000 people suffer from some type of hereditary ataxia.
Faced with a specific situation of stress, cardiac activity increases, breathing becomes agitated, sweating appears in the hands and the mouth becomes dry. But when stress is continued things can get worse and trigger depression. Scientists from the University of Washington (USA) present today in Nature the molecular mechanism that explains the link between a situation of chronic stress and depressive disorders.
Eating eggs, yogurt and other protein-rich foods for breakfast increases satiety and helps control appetite throughout the day and "snack" less before the next meal, according to a recent study from the University of Missouri (USA).
Swearing, eating chocolate, spitting saliva, looking at the photo of the person you love ... Here you have a list of curious and scientifically proven remedies that have an analgesic effect and can alleviate any pain.
It sounds like science fiction but it isn't, according to Vinoth Ranganathan. At a symposium held a decade ago by the American Society for Neuroscience, this researcher from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in the United States, presented an experiment that proved that healthy individuals can significantly increase the strength of the abductor muscles. fingers and elbow flexor muscles through mental training.
What happens in our brain when we speak? Although verbal expression is made up of a whole series of very complex mechanisms, an international team of scientists has managed to identify the way in which vowels are encoded in our brain. The finding could be used to develop systems that allow people who have lost speech to regain speech, or to facilitate communication in patients with some type of paralysis.
Moments before solving a problem, the brain "bulb" lights up in an area known as the anterior cingulate cortex. Scientists have shown that neurons in this area fire especially if we are in a good mood, so they recommend playing at work to stimulate creativity.
Named for the Viennese neurologist Josef Gerstmann, who was the first to describe it in the 1920s, it is characterized because patients present four symptoms: alterations in the ability to express ideas by writing (agrafia), inability to count and perform operations. simple arithmetic (acalculia), inability to recognize the fingers of the hand (digital agnosia) and right-left disorientation.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
