Electrical brain stimulation can boost your memory. For a day.
Science News has more on how a zap of electric current, placed just so, can increase your ability to make and maintain new memories: The […]
neurology
Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.
Science News reports on studies that find the parts of your brain in charge of navigation never rests, even when you’re asleep: Nestled in a […]
Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains: Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and […]
Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.
Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought: The research focused […]
Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness: Christof Koch, president of the […]
SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods
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Brain-electronics just got better
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains: The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) […]
MRI scan predicts autism with 80% accuracy.
Science Daily looks at the brains of infants to see which ones have an overgrowth of the brain’s surface, which is to say, which ones […]
SONG: By Numbers
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Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.
Science magazine reports on a new mission for German scientists, who are working to identify the human remains stored for study by Nazi euthanasia centers: […]
“The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.
BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech: A team measured people’s brain […]
Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.
Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick […]
Heading a soccer ball changes your brain – pretty much immediately.
I don’t know if this counts as surprising or not, but Science Daily details the changes your brain goes through after something as “mild” as […]
Likes like chocolate. Likes like the jackpot. It’s true.
Science Daily reveals a neurological truth, found during a first-of-its-kind study of teens’ brains while engaging in social media – that getting Likes on Facebook […]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation isn’t doing what we thought.
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently, as […]