Nature reveals something fascinating about what happens when a creative brain turns on the creativity:
… Read the rest “Rapping inside an MRI. (On freestyle neurology.)”Freestyle rapping — in which a performer improvises a song by stringing together
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to:
… Read the rest “Why is dissonance noisy?”Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes
Guardian has some unusual insight into the human brain, thanks to a man whose Parkinson’s has left him confined to a wheelchair, but who is still able to ride a bicycle:
… Read the rest “Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…”This phenomenon
Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused by junk food:
… Read the rest “They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.”About 35
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:
… Read the rest “Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.”The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.”It found evidence that
Fun to read Sound on Sound’s behind-the-mixing-board analysis of what made “Somebody That I Used To Know” so darn catchy – even though it breaks some Top-40 rules… Read the rest “The Neuroscience of Gotye.”
But do they need supervision? Discover reports on the the rare humans who can see colors the rest of us can’t:
… Read the rest “Mutant women have super vision.”Living among us are people with four cones, who might experience a range
Nature profiles Adrian Owens, a man who uses brain scans to communicate with patients in a persistent vegetative state:
… Read the rest “Reading the minds of comatose patients.”Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The
BBC breaks some not-terribly-encouraging news from the stoner desk. Neuromedical researchers have found marijuana-based meds don’t slow the progress multiple sclerosis:
… Read the rest “Cannabis pills not effective against MS.”Lead
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world:
… Read the rest “We only ever glimpse things in flashes….”The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain rhythm associated with visual
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
Science News chills us to the bone with the latest breakthrough from Mark Mayford and Susumu Tonegawa, neuroscientists at Scripps and MIT, respectively. They’ve been able to manufacture… Read the rest “You will remember… FEAR!”
Scientific American is seething with the swarm of possibilities that bring every human decision down to the level of bees:
… Read the rest “You are a hive mind.”To Dr. Thomas Seeley, a professor of neurobiology at Cornell University,
Medical Xpress sketches out a rough map of where intelligence actually resides:
… Read the rest “Where intelligence is in the brain.”Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary
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