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… Read the rest “SONG: “Back into flow””
neurology
Slipping on the thinking cap.
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state:
… Read the rest “Slipping on the thinking cap.”The “thinking cap” is something
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:
… Read the rest “Zapping into flow.”I am in a lab in Carlsbad, California, in pursuit of an elusive
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:
… Read the rest “Home-cooked Parkinson’s.”The breakthrough means
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression:
… Read the rest “Electricity vs. depression.”The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, professor in the Departments
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:
… Read the rest “Behind the wall of sleep.”A team led by Andreas Engel at the University Medical Center
Rhythm of memory.
MedicalXpress dances to the beat that makes memories in our brains:
… Read the rest “Rhythm of memory.”UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain “rhythm,” or frequency, for changing synaptic
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:
… Read the rest “Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).”Bernardo Spagnolo, a biophysicist at the University of Palermo
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 the things they do… Read the rest “Teenage brains.”
What’d you say?
Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus:
… Read the rest “What’d you say?”“This work is the most clearheaded documentation to this point
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells:
… Read the rest “Smart pills.”“We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of the University of Texas
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… Read the rest “Do you see it once you feel it?”
Mama’s got a big brain.
Scientific American refutes the mommy-brain myth with new research that shows new moms’ brains actually get bigger:
… Read the rest “Mama’s got a big brain.”Structural changes in animal brains, says National Institutes
Our atomic noses.
Normally, when we think of the way we smell things, we think of the molecules of a smelly substance – like a rose or a garlic roll – wafting into the air and then landing on our olfactory… Read the rest “Our atomic noses.”