The holiday spirit (or something) descended on The Washington Post, who have shared (non-paywalled, apparently) a statistical and neurological look at why Christmas music – and… Read the rest “Christmas music and your brain.”
SONG: “I Spent a Week in the Dark”.
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SOURCE: Science Daily, 8 December 2019, “A week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing in adult… Read the rest “SONG: I Spent a Week in the Dark”
SONG: “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form,”… Read the rest “SONG: Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”
Science Daily reports on a University of Maryland study that shows that (for mice at least) spending a week in darkness resets certain brain circuits, and in particular boosts the sensitivity… Read the rest “A week in the dark rewires the brain (and boosts hearing sensitivity)”
Glia are the cells around neurons that manufacture myelin (the insulation around nerve cells), help repair cell damage and, apparently, have something to do with creating… Read the rest “Science Art: Neurons from rat brain tissue stained green with antibody to ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1)… by Gerry Shaw, 2005”
It happens when we sleep, says Scientific American. It happens in cells that aren’t even neurons:
… Read the rest “Learning where memories are born.”A new study from the University of Toronto, published on-line this week in the journal
A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network.
A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. This appears to be an illustration of synapses… Read the rest “Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier”
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have wiped them out: … Read the rest “Gut bacteria can help the brain conquer fear; antibiotics can make PTSD recovery harder.”
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot body he controls with two brain implants:
… Read the rest “Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.”Sixty-four electrodes on each implant
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a letter, and converts it into the thought of a spoken… Read the rest “We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.”
Science Daily brings news (from Nature Biomedical Engineering) of a new, well, not “killer,” but “really pretty useful” app for people suffering a wide range… Read the rest “A smartphone-controlled brain implant.”
The New York Times reports on findings (from JAMA) that the people who’d complained of nausea, visual blurring and other effects after some strange events in America’s Cuban… Read the rest “The “sonic attack” in Cuba and China… definitely did something to diplomats’ brains. Literally.”
SONG: “Facing North”.
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SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: Facing North”
The Verge reports on a study (from Nature Human Behavior) that demonstrates that collecting all those pocket-monsters creates lasting physical changes in your brain:
… Read the rest “If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.”…Researchers
But can we navigate by it? Science News reports on the new finding that, like birds, humans appear to have “magnetoreception abilities,” sensing directions by detecting … Read the rest “People can sense the Earth’s magnetic field.”
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