New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:
… Read the rest “This laser turns us *on*.”Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but
Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help autistic kids socialize:
… Read the rest “Diuretic drug appears to help autism.”The findings, reported
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories:
… Read the rest “Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.”This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how it can insert things from the present into
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain:
… Read the rest “Stories change your brain.”“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” says neuroscientist Gregory Berns,
University of Arizona brain researchers are using EEG machines to detect everyday invisible objects – the things your brain sees that it’s keeping from you:
… Read the rest “You don’t always see what you’re seeing.”“We were
An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s.
Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes:
… Read the rest “Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.”In a paper published Oct. 28 in the journal Proceedings
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers:
… Read the rest “Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!”[…A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new low-cost EEG recording front end was debuted at
BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain:
… Read the rest “Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.”Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became
Laboratory Equipment investigates the connection between musical training and quick brain responses:
… Read the rest “Music sharpens your brain responses.”Scientists have long known that moving to a steady beat requires synchronization
BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head:
… Read the rest “Sleep makes the brain cells grow.”Sleep ramps up the production of cells that go
Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells:
… Read the rest “They’re growing miniature human brains from stem cells.”To create their
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects:
… Read the rest “Mosquitos *taste* heat.”Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most blood? That is because those areas are
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