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Red light beats blue mood.

7 August 2013 grant 0

Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression:

In a study involving hamsters, researchers found

… Read the rest “Red light beats blue mood.”

Controlling rats with OUR BRAINS.

31 July 2013 grant 0

ExtremeTech introduces the technology of the supervillain – the brain-to-brain interface (BBI), a new device that lets humans control animals with their thoughts:

Simply by thinking

… Read the rest “Controlling rats with OUR BRAINS.”

SONG: “Inside My Eyes”

23 June 2013 grant 0

SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside My Eyes””

The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.

17 June 2013 grant 0

New Scientist gives thanks for the little things in the wake of the Big One. Studying the irradiated cells of bomb-test survivors (that is, all of us) has shown definitively that our brains… Read the rest “The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.”

Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.

13 June 2013 grant 0

Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off:

Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms

… Read the rest “Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.”

Breast-feeding grows brains.

7 June 2013 grant 0

Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better:

[T]his is the first imaging study that looked for differences associated

… Read the rest “Breast-feeding grows brains.”

The shape of thoughts.

23 May 2013 grant 0

Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen:

They do not correspond to a

… Read the rest “The shape of thoughts.”

Forbes follows how science gets started up.

5 March 2013 grant 0

Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding:

In 2007, after 6 years of PhD work, I arrived at the McGovern Institute

… Read the rest “Forbes follows how science gets started up.”

This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.

14 February 2013 grant 0

Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless:

Many studies on animals over the years have shown that the amygdala, a small,

… Read the rest “This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.”

Watching the thoughts of fishes.

1 February 2013 grant 0

That’s what Science Daily says scientists have been doing when they hook up a probe precise enough to detect a single idea begin to form in a specific brain cell:

“Our work is

… Read the rest “Watching the thoughts of fishes.”

Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.

30 January 2013 grant 0

Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time:

Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining

… Read the rest “Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.”

High on music.

18 January 2013 grant 0

NPR’s Tom Huizenga wants to know why he gets blissed out when he hears a great musical performance. So he asks musical neurologist Dan Levitin what’s going on:

The McGill University

… Read the rest “High on music.”

Create your own robo-roach at home!

7 January 2013 grant 0

I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches,… Read the rest “Create your own robo-roach at home!”

They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)

4 January 2013 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the regular reader knows… Read the rest “They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)”

Reading really is fundamental. Neurologically. (Or: A Good Book Is Universal.)

28 November 2012 grant 0

Nature reveals that no matter what language you’re reading, your brain lights up the same way when you do it:

Previous studies have suggested that alphabetic writing systems (such

… Read the rest “Reading really is fundamental. Neurologically. (Or: A Good Book Is Universal.)”

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