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12 Jun 09

Volunteers who had entered REM or rapid eye movement sleep - when most dreams occur - were then better able to solve a new problem with lateral thinking.
The study at the University of California San Diego showed that the volunteers who entered REM during sleep improved their creative problem solving ability by almost 40%.
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- The researchers believe REM sleep allows the brain to form new nerve connections without the interference of other thought pathways that occur when we are awake or in non-dream-state sleep.

01 May 09

Around 50 million people suffer from epilepsy--about 1 percent of the world's population, say Forrest Sheng Bao at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, and a few pals.
The team developed the system by training a neural network to recognize the characteristic patterns in interictal data that indicate that the patient is epileptic. And the researchers claim an accuracy rate of 94 percent--about the same as experienced human operators, who usually have to strip various kinds of noise and artifacts out of the data before they can do their job.