Hot cocoa helps you remember.
Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline:
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SONG: “Forget” by grant.
SONG: “Forget.”
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SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014,… Read the rest “SONG: “Forget” by grant.”
Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories:
… Read the rest “We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)”Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a new technique
Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death:
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SONG: Could you tell me your name?
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?”
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Worried? Trouble sleeping? Congrats, you might have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.
BBC reports the in no way worrisome news that researchers have discovered a correlation benzodiazepines (pills for anxiety and sleep) and a hugely increased risk of dementia:
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Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 miles:
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Magnets zap memories into brains.
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory:
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Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.
Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye:
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Scientists find where consciousness happens.
New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum:
… Read the rest “Scientists find where consciousness happens.”In a study published last week, Mohamad Koubeissi at the
One hour more of sleep makes a measurable difference
Stop studying. Take a nap. That’s the message from Catholic University of Leuven researchers who found that one more hour of sleep makes a big difference to your grade:
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Music lessons build better brains
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas:
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I really don’t know what I’m saying.
Nature reveals that sometimes our mouths really do move faster than our brains:
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A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations:
… Read the rest “A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).”A 22-year-old male was receiving