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 a while and then dissolves… Read the rest “Wireless brain implants that melt away.”
Science Daily reports on the discovery of the brain circuit that recognizes danger:
… Read the rest “Is this safe? We know how how to turn off our sense of danger now.”Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
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’ brains are measurably… Read the rest “Long-distance runners’ brains shrink.”
Nature looks at a new ketamine study of the brains of people who attempted suicide:
… Read the rest “Searching the brain for reasons for suicide – using ketamine.”Fewer than 10% of people with depression attempt suicide, and about 10% of those who kill themselves were
Medical XPress examines a link between major depression and immune-system cells in the brain called “microglia”:
… Read the rest “Depression could be an immune problem.”In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells:
… Read the rest “Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s”The new results are preliminary findings from the very first human trials
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on Earth, is not processed… Read the rest “Whistled language is right-brained.”
Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a thing:
… Read the rest “Emotions help you remember information”Dr. Shlomo Wagner of the Sagol
Quartz opens a window on the two periods of brain development when traumatic events do the most damage:
… Read the rest “Teens and two-year-olds: The ages most vulnerable to trauma.”According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up:
… Read the rest “The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.”The study is being published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
So say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish:
… Read the rest “Memories are physical: they last as long as the nerve-cell connections that store them.”Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and
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 where it can monitor (and stimulate) individual neurons… Read the rest “Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.”
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 memorized passwords:
… Read the rest “Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.”In “Brainprint,”
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes:
… Read the rest “We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.”The findings result from experiments led by electrical engineering
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth:
… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”…A team led by neuroscientists
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