Science Daily: Why your brain may be sabotaging your balance as you age
Balance problems in aging and Parkinson’s may come from the body working too hard, not too little. Scientists found that the brain and muscles become overactive during even minor disturbances, yet ...
Yahoo: A Quick Guide to Brain Basics: From Parts of the Brain to Memory
A Quick Guide to Brain Basics: From Parts of the Brain to Memory
USA Today: Brain Health Across the Lifespan: Brain Balance on Why It Matters at Every Stage of Life
Brain Health Across the Lifespan: Brain Balance on Why It Matters at Every Stage of Life
Medical Xpress: Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior, study finds
Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. In particular, children who struggle with ...
News Medical: Aging and Parkinson’s impact brain and muscle activity during balance recovery
Lena Ting, from Emory University, and colleagues explored how brain and muscle activity during balance recovery change due to aging and Parkinson's. Previously, Ting's research group revealed that ...
The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...
MSN: Why the brain slowly loses control of balance in multiple sclerosis
In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet a critical part of the brain remains a mystery. I am referring to the cerebellum, so named for the Latin for “little brain,” ...