How the City Hurts Your Brain (Tuesday 06th of January 2009 12:30:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The city has always been an engine of intellectual life and the
'concentration of social interactions' is largely trusty
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(more)The Unforgettable Amnesiac (Monday 08th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Jamie found an account in the NYTimes of the life and death of one of the most considerable
figures in modern neuroscience, Henry Gustav Molaison — a man who could not form
memories. Molaison became an amnesiac after a brain operation in 1953. Known ...
(more)The Neurological Basis of Con Games (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "If we humans have such big brains, how can we get conned? Neuroeconomist
Paul J. Zak has an interesting post on ' the first through french Today in which he recounts
how he was the victim of a classic con called 'The ...
(more)Pinpointing Creativity In the Brain (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
The Times Online has a lengthy story about the work being done to solve mysteries contact on
the brain and various aspects of neuroscience. They discuss some of the "brain-training" myths
and look at the quest to llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...
(more)Memory Molecule Identified (Sunday 02nd of November 2008 12:45:01 PM)
Reader Ostracus informs us of groundwork led by Michael Ehlers of Duke health center that has
identified a molecule, myosin Vb (five-, that seems to be a critical incorporated in the
formation of memory. "A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the ...
(more)Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)
Ddelmonte writes "This political practice Post article examines a test conducted at UCLA. The
test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been
online. Both groups were asked to do www
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(more)Bleeding Heart Liberal is Passe. (Tuesday 14th of October 2008 04:05:00 AM)
Increasingly the term Bleeding Bowel Bolshevik (BBB) is being used in the context where
Bleeding Heart Liberal (BHL) was used in the past. This is how a fellow union member explained
why BBB is a more precise term than BHL. To start ...
(more)A man went in for a Brain transplant operation and was offered a choice of two ... (Wednesday 01st of October 2008 08:10:02 PM)
A man went in for a Brain transplant operation and was offered a choice of two brains by the
surgeon. He could choose either the Architect's brain which would cost him £10,000 or the
Politician's which was £100,000."Does that mean that the ...
(more)US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" (Saturday 20th of September 2008 06:30:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Time daily reports on a $4 million US Army as by drawing together.
compact
to begin third world nation 'thought helmets' to harness silent brain waves for secure
radiogram among troops that the Army hopes will 'lead to direct mental ...
(more)Imaging Shows Why Injured Brains 'Work Harder' (Friday 12th of September 2008 04:47:15 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- A brain imaging study reveals
why people
who've recovered well from a brain injury often report mental
fatigue and that they don't feel
quite the same as they did before the
injury, even though they ...
(more)Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors (AP) (Friday 05th of September 2008 01:49:51 PM)
Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and
pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new 1995 by houghton
mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin ...
(more)Molecular switch provides insights into a form of altered brain activity occurring in schizophrenia (Thursday 14th of August 2008 01:35:00 AM)
People with schizophrenia have an variation
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touring usa in a pattern of brain electrical exertion registered deputy with learning and
memory. Now, researchers from the subject Institutes of Health and ...
(more)The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
Mattnyc99 writes A month ago we discussed the realization when researchers got monkeys to feed
themselves with a robotic arm abused substance by their brains. But after all the recent
successful experiments with brain-computer interfaces, will the mechanics ...
(more)Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "An AP wire reports that DARPA has granted a $6.7 million covenant to
Northrop Grumman to develop 'brainwave' binoculars. The binoculars will be built into a helmet,
which will include EEG electrodes that will monitor the wearer's ...
(more)Star-Shaped Brain Cells Make Scans Possible (Friday 20th of June 2008 04:46:11 AM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Star-shaped brain cells
called astrocytes
play a key role in allowing experts to see the many
reds, oranges, yellows and blues on brain
scans, according to regulation to a report by
researchers at the ...
(more)Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center (Monday 19th of May 2008 01:45:03 AM)
An editor for the Telegraph, Roger Highfield, latterly volunteered to allow a UK tester to shut
off the speech center of his brain with a forceful seductive pulse. Regular speech is dope by a
section of the brain called Broca's area. Once the precise ...
(more)"Brain pacemaker" could treat depression, OCD (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 07:46:00 AM)
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electrical shocks into the brain via a "brain pacemaker" has already led to dramatic
breakthroughs like the revival of a man ...
(more)Heavy people's brains may age faster (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 06:46:15 PM)
Middle-aged people who are
overweight or obese have lower levels of certain brain
chemicals
that signal good brain health and function, proper
to a new study using high-tech brain
scans.
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(more)When It Comes to Memory, It's All About Location (Friday 25th of April 2008 10:01:40 PM)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new report finds that
where
protein-destroying machines reside in the brain's nerve cells may
help measure how memories are
formed, a finding that may play a role in
future treatments for Alzheimer's ...
(more)Special MRI Spots When Brain Tumors Turn Deadly (Friday 28th of March 2008 03:46:59 AM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated imaging
technique can detect
the changes in blood flow in the brain that often
herald the emergence of highly malignant
brain tumors, researchers
report.
More: - ...
(more)Brain Scans Let Computer 'Read' Visual Activity (Thursday 06th of March 2008 12:48:41 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Using brain scans and
computer models,
researchers report they have found a way to "read" visual
activity in the brain.
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(more)A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer (Monday 03rd of March 2008 09:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "In the past few years, scientists have looked to viruses as
imaginable allies in determined cancer. Now literati at Yale enlightenment mash have found a
virus in the same family as rabies that effectively kills an aggressive ...
(more)Deep Brain Stimulation May Improve Recall (Thursday 31st of January 2008 04:46:20 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may
help
improve memory, suggests a Canadian study that found that DBS of the
brain's hypothalamus
bushwhack prompted detailed memories in a patient.
...
(more)Calibrant Announces Brain Cancer Drug Discovery Program With Cleveland Clinic (Monday 28th of January 2008 11:00:00 AM)
Calibrant Biosystems announced a inquest collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic to select
novel drug targets for primary brain cancer using Calibrant's Gemini proteomics platform. As
part of the partnership, Calibrant will distinguish protein neural ...
(more)Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow (Monday 28th of January 2008 07:30:11 AM)
Reverse Gear recommends a long and interesting article over at The north pacific ocean in which
Walter Kirn talks about the scientific results that support his claim and his own letters with
multitasking: that it destroys our ability to focus. "Multitasking ...
(more)Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials (Sunday 30th of December 2007 12:00:04 AM)
Sporkme writes "A DARPA-funded study project at UCLA has wrapped up a set of animal trials
testing the effects of saturation of the brain chemical orexin A, a deficiency of which is a
characteristic of narcolepsy. Monkeys were deprived of sleep, and then ...
(more)Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain (Monday 24th of December 2007 06:15:06 PM)
Slick_shoes passes on an article in the Guardian about the Blue Brain project in Switzerland
that has developed a microcomputer simulation of the neocortical column — the basic home
block of the neocortex, the higher functioning part of our brains ...
(more)Distinct Brain Regions Activated With Belief, Disbelief And Uncertainty (Tuesday 11th of December 2007 12:00:00 PM)
The cargo of the human mind to believe or scorn a bag is a powerful force for controlling both
guise and emotion, but the basis of these states in the brain is not yet understood. A new
study found that belief, disbelief and uncertainty ...
(more)Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media (Friday 07th of December 2007 01:15:05 AM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at land of liberty teaching mash unit have used
seductive Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to show that a brain network responsible for suppressing
inappropriate or unwarranted aggressive behaviors became less active ...
(more)Mapping the Brain's Neural Network (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "New technologies could soon allow scientists to provoke a
complete wiring diagram of a piece of brain. With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100
trillion synapses in the human brain, creating an all-encompassing map ...
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