You are a hive mind.
Scientific American is seething with the swarm of possibilities that bring every human decision down to the level of bees: To Dr. Thomas Seeley, a […]
neurology
Where intelligence is in the brain.
Medical Xpress sketches out a rough map of where intelligence actually resides: Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that […]
SONG: “Back into flow”
SONG: “Back into flow.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating ‘thinking cap’”, […]
Slipping on the thinking cap.
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state: The “thinking cap” is something like […]
Supplemental: If you really want to see how tDCS works…
The brain-zapping process broken down, in an Informed Consent video: And you can always try making your own device….
Zapping into flow.
New Scientist reawakens that old dream of turning on the creative juices as if you were turning on a tap… or flipping a switch: I […]
Home-cooked Parkinson’s.
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch: The breakthrough […]
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression: The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, […]
Behind the wall of sleep.
New Scientist tries to rouse the secrets of anesthesia – and what being put under can teach us about consciousness itself: A team led by […]
Rhythm of memory.
MedicalXpress dances to the beat that makes memories in our brains: UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain “rhythm,” or frequency, for changing […]
Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).
Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good: Bernardo […]
Teenage brains.
A friend of mine who taught middle school called it “hormone poisoning.” But National Geographic takes a slightly more serious look at why adolescents do […]
What’d you say?
Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus: “This work is the most clearheaded documentation […]
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells: “We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of […]
Do you see it once you feel it?
Researchers have finally found an empirical answer, PhysOrg reports, to a centuries-old conceptual puzzler known as Molyneux’s question. If a person who’s been blind since […]