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Our research found that concussion was associated with increased functional connectivity between the thalamus and the rest of the brain very shortly after injury, when compared to 76 healthy control subjects.

In other words, the thalamus was trying to communicate more as a result of the injury. This was despite routine MRI and CT imaging showing no structural changes in the brain.

While many of us would assume that more connectivity in the brain is a good thing, research looking at more severe head injuries indicates that greater connectivity between brain regions might actually be a sign of the brain trying to compensate and offset damage across the brain.

Given the rise of chat gpt and its volumes of knowledge bases there is a new chat bot that is aiding mental health care and therapy 😀

When it comes to mental health, the main focus is on the patient and how to provide the best care possible. But with the rising demand for mental health services, it’s increasingly difficult for clinicians to address the individual needs of their patients and meet the growing demand for mental health services. This is where ChAT-GPT, or Conversational Artificial intelligence-based Therapy for Generalized Psychological Treatment, comes in.

Chat-GPT is an AI-based therapy that uses natural language processing (NLP) and conversational AI to help therapists provide more personalized and effective mental health care and therapy. This new technology allows mental health professionals to provide real-time and personalized care to their patients in a way that is tailored to their needs and preferences. In this article, we will discuss the key features of Chat-GPT and how it is helping improve mental health care and therapy.

Chat-GPT is a type of AI-based therapy developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It is a conversational AI-based therapy designed to help clinicians diagnose mental health issues. Chat-GPT uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand the patient’s conversations and provide personalized care and therapy.

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Year 2021 face_with_colon_three This could be made into a smartphone device that could one day treat everything without the need for surgery or other ways that are not as safe.

Researchers are investigating potential uses for the cell reprogramming technology to treat brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease or autoimmune diseases.

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In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.”

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A major impediment to treating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma has been that the most potent chemotherapy can’t permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach the aggressive brain tumor.

But now Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously.

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Many people who have come close to death or have been resuscitated report a similar experience: Their lives flash before their eyes, memorable moments replay, and they may undergo an out-of-body experience, sensing they’re looking at themselves from elsewhere in the room. Now, a small study mapping the brain activity of four people while they were dying shows a burst of activity in their brains after their hearts stop.

The authors say the finding, published today in the, may explain how a person’s brain could replay conscious memories even after the heart has stopped. It “suggests we are identifying a marker of lucid consciousness,” says Sam Parnia, a pulmonologist at New York University Langone Medical Center who was not involved in the study.

Although death has historically been medically defined as the moment when the heart irreversibly stops beating, recent studies have suggested brain activity in many animals and humans can continue for seconds to hours. In 2013, for instance, University of Michigan neurologist Jimo Borjigin and team found that rats’ brains showed signs of consciousness up to 30 seconds after their hearts had stopped beating. “We have this binary concept of life and death that is ancient and outdated,” Parnia says.

Applying machine learning models, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a patient’s degree of resilience and well-being, according to investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

The findings, reported in the May 2 issue of JAMIA Open, support wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, as a way to monitor and assess psychological states remotely without requiring the completion of mental health questionnaires.

The paper, titled “A machine learning approach to determine resilience utilizing wearable device data: analysis of an observational cohort,” points out that resilience, or an individual’s ability to overcome difficulty, is an important stress mitigator, reduces morbidity, and improves chronic disease management.

“Our study may be as good as it will ever get for finding neural signatures of near-death consciousness,” said the study’s senior author.

Upon removal of ventilator support, two of the patients showed an increase in heart rate along with a surge of gamma wave activity, considered the fastest brain activity and associated with consciousness.

Furthermore, the activity was detected in the so-called hot zone of neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the junction between the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes in the back of the brain. This area has been correlated with dreaming, visual hallucinations in epilepsy, and altered states of consciousness in other brain studies.