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 […]
neurology
Music lessons build better brains
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas: Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes that […]
I really don’t know what I’m saying.
Nature reveals that sometimes our mouths really do move faster than our brains: But some researchers think that speech is not entirely planned, and that […]
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: A 22-year-old […]
Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.
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 […]
This laser turns us *on*.
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love: Optogenetics — triggering […]
Diuretic drug appears to help autism.
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 […]
Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories: This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how […]
Stories change your brain.
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain: “Stories shape our lives and in some cases […]
You don’t always see what you’re seeing.
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: […]
Science Art: Typical chemosensory hair of the blowfly Phormia regina Meigen, from Molecular structure and functional activity of nerve cells…., 1955
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 […]
Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes: In a paper published Oct. 28 […]
Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers: […A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new […]
Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.
BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain: Scientists, who imaged the brains […]
Science Art: Broca’s Area (Brodmann’s Area 44 & 45) by Amunts K, Lenzen M, Friederici AD, Schleicher A, Morosan P, et al.
Why is this brain area important? I have no words. Found on Wikimedia Commons.