Electric doping (drug-free!) boosts ski performance.
Nature reports on how tDCS – zapping the brain with low-voltage electricity – can help athletes boost their performance: The USSA [(US Ski and Snowboard […]
neurology
Nervous people walk to the left.
Science Daily reveals the unbalancing news that if you’re worried, you’re more likely to veer leftward while walking: New research led by Dr Mario Weick […]
Wireless brain implants that melt away.
The Guardian gives my inner paranoid schizophrenic ever more powerful wings to soar with news of a brain-monitoring implant that tracks your nerve impulses for […]
Is this safe? We know how how to turn off our sense of danger now.
Science Daily reports on the discovery of the brain circuit that recognizes danger: Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and […]
Long-distance runners’ brains shrink.
Not that New Scientist wants you to worry about what your exercise routine could be doing to your memory. Just that researchers have found ultra-marathoners’ […]
Searching the brain for reasons for suicide – using ketamine.
Nature looks at a new ketamine study of the brains of people who attempted suicide: Fewer than 10% of people with depression attempt suicide, and […]
Depression could be an immune problem.
Medical XPress examines a link between major depression and immune-system cells in the brain called “microglia”: In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published in the […]
Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells: The new results are preliminary findings from […]
Whistled language is right-brained.
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on […]
Emotions help you remember information
Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a […]
Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.
Quartz opens a window on the two periods of brain development when traumatic events do the most damage: According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and […]
The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up: The study is being published this week in […]
Memories are physical: they last as long as the nerve-cell connections that store them.
So say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish: Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of […]
Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.
Nature describes (and even has photos of) an electronic mesh that can be rolled up and squirted out of a syringe into a mouse brain […]
Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of […]