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Do We Need Brain Implants to Keep Up with Robots?
Posted in Science on 3rd Nov, 2017
by Alex Muller
Neuroscientist Christof Koch calls for a crash program in brain technologies to make us smarter.
Anti-obesity drug acts on brain's appetite control system
Posted in Medicine on 25th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
A drug that targets the appetite control system in the brain could bring about significant weight loss in people with clinical obesity.
Brain Stimulation can accelerate learning by 40%, could be common by 2023
Posted in Hardware on 24th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
Non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning.
First evidence of the body's waste system in the human brain discovered
Posted in Medicine on 8th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers saw the first, long-sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels.
Human brains connecting to the internet in realtime
Posted in Science on 16th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
Biomedical engineers at Wits are connecting a human brain to the internet in real time.