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UD senior Logan Schlag focuses on locomotor learning during summer research

If you or anyone close to you is among the world’s estimated 100 million people who have survived a stroke — a disease that causes blood clots or ruptured blood vessels, disrupting blood flow in the brain — you probably already know that strategic, effective rehabilitative care is critical for the best possible recovery. (more…)

Learning to Control Brain Activity Improves Visual Sensitivity

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2012Scienceabnormal patterns, brain activity, brain function, control, electrical activity, emotional response, fmri, frank scharnowski, geneva, human volunteer, neurofeedback approach, stroke patients, training, university, visual cortex, visual information, visual perception, visual sensitivity

Training human volunteers to control their own brain activity in precise areas of the brain can enhance fundamental aspects of their visual sensitivity, according to a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience.

This non-invasive ‘neurofeedback’approach could one day be used to improve brain function in patients with abnormal patterns of activity, for example stroke patients. (more…)

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Learning to Control Brain Activity Improves Visual Sensitivity