A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

Introduction Visual Hallucinations (VHs) (seeing things that others do not, or visions) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Services rarely ask about these ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

I didn’t want to build another loud kid’s app. I wanted to build something that felt like sitting beside your child while ...

Bilateral stimulation is the use of visual, auditory, or tactile external stimuli occurring in a rhythmic side-to-side ...

A gentle flicker of light and a steady hum of sound might help slow the course of Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the idea behind a novel therapy developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the phenomenon of perceptual distortion of time caused by the stimulation of the senses in a virtual environment. We examine how time perception changes with sensory ...

1 Department of Biology, Physiology Institute, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 2 Fidia Pharmaceuticals, Ophthalmology Research, Catania University, Catania, Italy Multisensory integration enables the ...

Mental health is foundational to quality of life for students and teachers. Recent studies have shown that stress and anxiety in both adults and high school students in the United States are at ...

1 Department of Physical Therapy, Biwako Professional University of Rehabilitation, Higashiomi, Japan. 2 Department of Physical Therapy, Bukkyo University, Kyoto, Japan. However, the impact of VR on ...