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Doctor Exposes Donald Trump's Reportedly 'Distinctly Involuntary Spasms' and Warns of 'Damage to the Brain'

A psychologist's video analysis raises concerns over Donald Trump's involuntary spasms, suggesting potential neurological issues.

International Business Times UK · Aug 24

Ninety-Two People Napped in a Lab, and Their Minds Ignored the Line Between Awake and Asleep

Paris researchers woke nappers repeatedly and found dream-like states during confirmed wakefulness and ordinary planning during confirmed sleep.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

A 23-Year-Old's Brain Bleed Looked Like a Burst Artery Until a Scan Found One Clotted Vein Nobody Checks

Two weeks into tuberculosis treatment, a young man had a brain hemorrhage. The cause was a clot in a deep vein that most scans overlook.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

Suffolk County Confirms Its First West Nile Case in a Brookhaven Resident Who Was Never Hospitalized

Suffolk County confirmed its first West Nile case in a Brookhaven resident over 50. Symptoms began in late July and did not require a hospital stay.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

Brain Cancer Patients Vaccinated Against COVID Before Surgery Lived Twice as Long in a Preprint Analysis

A preprint of 187 glioblastoma patients links COVID vaccination within 100 days of surgery to doubled survival. It has not been peer-reviewed.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

Two Stroke Patients Who Lost Language Solved Logic Puzzles as Well as People Who Could Speak

MIT researchers report that language and logical reasoning operate on separate brain systems, with two aphasic patients matching controls in logic tasks.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

A Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells Flips from Pain Reliever to Pain Generator, and Mice Show How to Flip It Back

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Medical Daily · Aug 24

The crying face is officially the number one emoji – but here’s why it could also be showing your age

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Emojis have become an integral feature of modern communication. As a new icon is crowned the most popular symbol of the last year on record, Lydia Spencer-Elliott looks at what its mixed meaning could do to our brains

The Independent UK · Aug 24

How the Mandukya Upanishad Mapped Dreaming as a Portal Into Human Consciousness

The Map That Starts With SleepThe Mandukya Upanishad is twelve verses long. It is also, arguably, the most structurally ambitious text in the entire Upanishadic corpus, because it attempts to account for the whole of human experience in four states. Jagrat is waking. Svapna is dreaming. Sushupti is dreamless sleep.…

Times Life · Aug 24

Eight-year-old dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana

Lillian Smart of Ruston infected with fatal Naegleria fowleri, likely after swimming in Lake Claiborne, health officials say

The Guardian - US · Aug 23