By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay Reporter; Medically reviewed by Drugs.com
Researchers say they’ve identified a human “neural compass” — a pattern of brain activity that helps prevent humans from becoming lost.
This discovery could increase understanding of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, in which a person’s navigation and orientation are frequently impaired.
Future research will take these findings a step further, to figure out how the brain navigates through time and whether this brain activity is related to memory.
