Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier
Click to embiggen slightly A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network. A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. […]
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Gut bacteria can help the brain conquer fear; antibiotics can make PTSD recovery harder.
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have […]
Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot […]
We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a […]
A smartphone-controlled brain implant.
Science Daily brings news (from Nature Biomedical Engineering) of a new, well, not “killer,” but “really pretty useful” app for people suffering a wide range […]
The “sonic attack” in Cuba and China… definitely did something to diplomats’ brains. Literally.
The New York Times reports on findings (from JAMA) that the people who’d complained of nausea, visual blurring and other effects after some strange events […]
SONG: Facing North
SONG: “Facing North” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in […]
If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.
The Verge reports on a study (from Nature Human Behavior) that demonstrates that collecting all those pocket-monsters creates lasting physical changes in your brain: …Researchers […]
People can sense the Earth’s magnetic field.
But can we navigate by it? Science News reports on the new finding that, like birds, humans appear to have “magnetoreception abilities,” sensing directions by […]
A certain frequency of sound can alter your brain. And maybe fight Alzheimer’s?
MIT News has the (low-pitched) buzz on how listening to 40 Hz sounds have cured mice of Alzheimer’s symptoms by changing their brainwaves: This noninvasive […]
Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.
New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice: The technique used […]
Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)
Nature discusses how the proteins that cause havoc in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients can be transmitted from person to person: They stress that their […]
Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a […]
Exercise might be the next Alzheimer’s therapy (or might lead to it).
Scientific American reveals how a new look at exercise’s effects in the brain might show the way to a one-two punch against Alzheimer’s disease: Exercise […]
Studying the seat of parrot intelligence
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a […]