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Electrical brain implants may help patients with severe brain injuries
For people with traumatic brain injuries, cognitive functions like memory, attention and mood regulation can become exceedingly difficult. But “there is no therapy for this kind of problem, even though it’s so prevalent,” says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Now, in a small study of individuals who have…
World must prepare for frequent and severe droughts, report warns
A severe drought this year affected the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, in Brazil Andre Coelho/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The increasing frequency and severity of droughts across the world is “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”, says a United Nations report launched today at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates….