Does VR give you motion sickness? Try chewing some gum
By Emma Young
VR headsets are becoming commonplace not only in entertainment and pilot training, but in clinical settings — in helping people to overcome phobias, for example, or to distract burns patients while their dressings are changed. Unfortunately, there’s a common side effect: visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), sometimes also known as “cybersickness”. This limits the use of VR, or means that people have to spend extended periods feeling nauseous while they adapt to it. But according to new research in Experimental Brain Research there’s a very simple way to tackle this problem: chewing f...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Technology Source Type: blogs
Scared Of Spiders? There ’s An App For That
In this study, published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 33 participants (18 diagnosed with arachnophobia) used the Phobys app as recommended. Before and after using the app, they provided responses to several measures of fear: subjective fear ratings when approaching a real spider (a Behavioural Approach Test), the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ), and the Spider Phobia Beliefs Questionnaire (SBQ), as well as a measure of disgust. They were also asked to rate how much they felt that their fears had reduced, post-intervention. A further 33 (17 diagnosed with arachnophobia) participants received no intervention, in ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Update: A life of cognitive and physical exercise helps you stay sharp in your 70s and beyond
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring 13 fascinating brain research findings, useful resources–and a brain teaser to test your attention skills.
#1. Good news of the month: Elders today are in significantly better shape–physically and cognitively–than three decades ago
#2. A distinction WITH a difference: Actual, sustained practice–not mere knowledge–is needed to harness neuroplasticity and improve cognition over time
#3. “Be mindful that with the rapid changes we are experiencing, our brains are going through accelerated learning. Our brains get tired just as our bodies would if ...
Source: SharpBrains - September 25, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology adhd anticholinergic drugs Behavioral Health Boehringer Ingelheim brain teaser for adults brain training brain-teaser brains Click Therapeutics cog Source Type: blogs
Study: Self-driving cars will increase motion sickness …unless we retrain our brains to improve visuospatial skills
Is brain training the cure for car sickness? (The Sunday Times):
RESEARCHERS from the University of Warwick think they’ve found the cure for motion sickness, a condition to which a third of people are highly susceptible and from which anyone can suffer. The implications could be significant should fully driverless vehicles become a reality, with passengers predicted to be more susceptible to nausea while working, reading or watching screens during travel.
According to the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), who undertook the study, “visuospatial training exercises” can train the brain to reduce motion sickness by more...
Source: SharpBrains - September 18, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Peak Performance Technology brain training brain-training-exercises cognitive-abilities ergonomics motion sickness self-driving cars self-driving vehicles simulator train the brain virtual Source Type: blogs
Will self-driving vehicles lead to a surge of brain training?
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Brain training may be required for occupants of driverless vehicles (Traffic Technology):
“A much-touted perceived benefit of autonomous vehicle technology is that working and a variety of leisure activities could be performed during the time freed up from being behind the wheel.
However, meeting in Warwick, the User Behaviour Forum has heard how reading, emailing, watching films and texting all have been found to induce motion sickness in a significant number of people travelling in a moving vehicle.
A study led by researcher Joe Smyth at WMG, a department at the university, led to all participants experiencing at le...
Source: SharpBrains - February 3, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Peak Performance Technology brain training brain training apps brain training puzzles cognitive-tasks driverless emailing motion sickness reading self-driving car texting User Behaviour Forum watching fil Source Type: blogs
Motion Sickness Study to Mitigate Motion Sickness in Self-Driving Cars
Motion sickness is slated to become a more prominent problem once self-driving cars become a commonality. Interiors of vehicles are expected to be much different than those of today’s forward-facing cars, including blackout windows with TVs inside for playing video games and watching movies. Even those not prone to motion sickness may have trouble when they’re playing Fortnite inside a self-driving car on twisty roads.
There have been some interesting technologies, including special fluid-filled glasses from Citroën, that may help some people, but researchers at the University of Michigan are looking to add...
Source: Medgadget - August 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: ENT Neurology Source Type: blogs
Hyperemesis: (Way) beyond morning sickness
Morning sickness — the common term for nausea and vomiting during early pregnancy — is not unusual, as many women know. Starting around the sixth to eighth week of pregnancy, as many as 80% of women report having nausea and 50% experience vomiting. But as comedian Amy Schumer can attest, hyperemesis goes well beyond what people generally think of as morning sickness. Marked by doggedly persistent nausea and vomiting, hyperemesis occurs in up to three out of 100 pregnancies. Not surprisingly, women who have hyperemesis often lose weight: losing approximately 5% of pre-pregnancy weight is common.
Why does hyperemesis occ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Huma Farid, MD Tags: Parenting Pregnancy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Exploratory Research Identifies A Novel Way To Beat Anxiety – Zapping The Vestibular System
Anxiety scores before and after 38 or 76 mins stimulation of the vestibular system (and before/after “sham” treatment) via Pasquier et al, 2019
By Emma Young
When we think of ways to calm ourselves via our senses, the obvious is to listen to relaxing music, have a massage, or perhaps to gaze upon a rustic scene. However, evidence is growing for a far less obvious option involving the vestibular system (located in the inner ear), which detects the position and movement of the head. According to a recent study, gentle rocking helps adults to fall asleep for a nap, and to sleep more soundly during an entire night,...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
Electronic Headband for Drug-Free Motion Sickness Therapy
Motion sickness can be a debilitating condition for many people, preventing them from traveling and engaging in various activities such as sailing. There are a few drugs available to control motion sickness, but they have side effects such as drowsiness and for many people are simply a choice of choosing one discomfort over another.
A new device, developed by Otolith Labs, a company out of Washington, DC, may soon become a new, drug-free option for managing the symptoms of motion sickness.
The Otolith device consists of a vibrating gadget, attached to a headband, that is placed behind the ear. The vibrator works on the pri...
Source: Medgadget - December 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology ENT Medicine Neurology OTC Source Type: blogs
Citro ën Unveils Glasses That Help Alleviate Motion Sickness
Citroën, the french car manufacturer, is releasing special glasses that help to prevent motion sickness. Though motion sickness was always a problem for some, since the introduction of smartphones and tablets the condition has been affecting more people as more of us look at screens while being chauffeured around.
The so called “SEETROËN” glasses are actually developed by Boarding Ring, a French firm. The glasses have a blue liquid that can flow in front and around the eyes. The liquid stays horizontal with the ground, regardless of how the vehicle moves, and so provides a sort-of stability to the eyes and th...
Source: Medgadget - July 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Neurology OTC Source Type: blogs
shovel all the coal in, gotta keep it rollin' / woo, woo, Chattanooga, there you are
(I know I said I ' d update Chattanooga Day Two yesterday, but I LIED.)Day Two in Chattanooga had a leisurely start. We had one destination in mind (about which more later), but this place did not open until noon, and we had some time to kill before then. So we decided to take a five minute-ish walk over to theChattanooga Choo Choo for brunch.The Chattanooga Choo Choo is a hotel built in an old decommissioned railway station, with guest rooms both inside the terminal building and in the Pullman train cars, the latter of which are on the old rails out back behind the lobby. Don ' t get me wrong, our Air BnB was nice, but if...
Source: the underwear drawer - September 5, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs
Role of the Vestibular System in the Construction of Self
How do we construct a unified self-identity as a thinking and feeling person inhabiting a body, separate and unique from other entities? A “self” with the capacity for autobiographical memory and complex thought? Traditionally, the field of cognitive science has been concerned with explaining the mind in isolation from the body.The growing field ofembodied cognition, on the other hand, seeks to rejoin them. One major strand has focused ongrounding higher-order semantics and language understanding inperceptual and sensory-motor representations. This view is distinct from theories of knowledge based on abstract, amodal r...
Source: The Neurocritic - July 16, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
6 tricks that pharmaceutical marketers use
Long before the Internet and direct-to-consumer advertising, the medical profession tried to reassure people about their health concerns. Remember “take two aspirins and call me in the morning?”
Flash forward to today’s online “symptom checkers.” They are quizzes to see if someone has a certain disease and exhortations to see their doctor even if they feel fine. Once drug makers discovered that health fears and even hypochondria sell drugs, there seems to be no end to the new diseases, symptoms and risks people need to worry about.
In fact, since drug ads began on TV, Americans take so many drugs it inspires ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/martha-rosenberg" rel="tag" > Martha Rosenberg < /a > Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Virtual Reality Is Used in Clinical Practice
Dr. Brennan M. Spiegel and his research team at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been experimenting with virtual reality (VR) for years. I had a fruitful and very exciting correspondence with him about moments of immersion, virtual pharmacies or how to travel to Iceland without leaving your hospital bed. Read on!
VR is an area of endless possibilities
VR has not just moved the imagination of science-fiction fans, but also clinical researchers and real life medical practitioners. As a doctor, you could assist in the OR without ever lifting a scalpel. If you are a medical student, you could study the human body more clo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Virtual Reality in Medicine clinical practice future GC1 Healthcare Innovation technology VR Source Type: blogs
Reliefband Neurowave: Wearable Device Offers Drug-free Relief from Nausea and Vomiting
Reliefband Technologies, a company based in Horsham, PA, revealed their new Reliefband Neurowave during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The Reliefband Neurowave is a smart-band that offers a drug-free treatment for nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, morning sickness, post-surgery, and even with virtual reality gaming.
The Reliefband Neurowave employs FDA-cleared and patented technology that delivers electric pulses of a specific waveform, frequency, and intensity to the median nerve on the underside of the user’s wrist. Through stimulating the median nerve, the Reliefban...
Source: Medgadget - January 4, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Kenan Raddawi Tags: Anesthesiology Medicine Oncology OTC Source Type: blogs
