neuroscience
Pentagon Research Could Make 'Brain Modem' a Reality
Posted in Science on 28th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Until recently, an impossible technological feat: developing a high-bandwidth neural interface that would allow people to beam data from their minds to external devices and back.
Obesity linked to 'worse memory'
Posted in Medicine on 27th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Tests on 50 people showed being overweight was linked to worse "episodic memory" or the ability to remember past experiences.
The blind or deaf brain rewires itself to boost the remaining senses
Posted in Science on 23rd Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
There is mounting evidence that people missing one sense don't just learn to use the others better. The brain adapts to the loss by giving itself a makeover.
Studying 'ripples' in the brain that could underlie memory formation
Posted in Medicine on 21st Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Caltech neuroscientists have looked inside brain cells as they undergo the intense bursts of neural activity known as "ripples" that are thought to underlie memory formation.
New drug could prevent impaired memory in schizophrenia sufferers
Posted in Medicine on 19th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
A mutation thwarts the development of neurons that connect two parts of the brain together, the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, while the brain is forming.