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Neuroscience

Playing video games helps stroke recovery

A genius game controller helping stroke patients get back hand and arm movement by playing on the computer is set to start tests in a stroke unit.

Psychology & Psychiatry

How virtual reality takes the 'work' out of workouts

If you want to exercise harder, enjoy it more and feel it less, pull on a VR headset and plug in some upbeat tunes, leading sport scientists say in their latest study.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

AI auto-scans lung X-rays for coronavirus

Coronavirus can be identified automatically from sick patients' lung X-rays using artificial intelligence (AI) developed at Brunel University London.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Coronavirus pandemic is paving the way for an increase in superbugs

The heroic efforts of researchers and healthcare professionals globally will eventually help us gain control of the coronavirus pandemic and there will be a decrease in the rate of new infections. The focus is still rightly ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Women don't fancy easy-to-seduce men

How men play the mating game is fairly well understood. But the psychological tricks and ploys women might use to attract or deceive men are less clear.

Oncology & Cancer

Prozac fights deadly childhood brain cancer

The anti-depressant drug Prozac could be used to tackle one of the deadliest childhood tumours and possibly other types of cancer, scientists said.

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