Showing posts with label the brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the brain. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

A Head Injury Turns A Man Into A Musical Savant

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Less than six years ago, Derek Amato had only mediocre guitar sk...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

It's Good To Think - But Not Too Much, Scientists Say

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Image: People who think more about their decisions have more brain cells in their frontal lobes From The BBC: People who think more about wh...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

You Won't Find Consciousness In The Brain

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Consciousness in action? It is tempting to think that's what is going on - but wrong (Image: Hans Neleman/Getty) From New Scientist: MO...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Modern Life Causes Brain Overload, Study Finds

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People are bombarded with the equivalent of 34 gigabytes of information a day. From the Telegraph: The wealth of media in modern life means ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Time Travel Through The Brain

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From Technology Review: Over the last 100 years, the way we visualize and understand the complexity of the brain has evolved. Over the 100-y...
Monday, September 14, 2009

How Does the Brain Use So Much Energy? Not in Electrical Signals

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From Discover Magazine: Experiments conducted on squid brains in the early days of neuroscience created misunderstandings about the workings...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Earlier Model of Human Brain's Energy Usage Underestimated Its Efficiency

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A MODEL OF EFFICIENCY?: That mammals' brains appear to conserve energy on the front end of synapse communication leads researchers to be...

Brain Cells Slicker Than We Thought

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From New Scientist: Rat brain cells waste little energy when talking to one another. That finding might not sound unusual, but it challenges...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Where Does Sex Live In The Brain? From Top To Bottom.

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Image: iStockphoto From Discover Magazine: Neuroscientists explore the mind's sexual side and discover that desire is not quite what we ...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Your Brain Is Organized Like a City

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Brains and cities, as they get bigger, do so based on similar mathematical rules. Image credit: Credit: Rensselaer/Mark Changizi From Live S...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Babies' Brains Churning With Activity

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Electrodes recorded brain activity while infants grabbed for toys. The same brain area showed activity whether infants grabbed for a toy the...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Traffic Jam In Brain Causes Schizophrenia Symptoms; First Mouse To Develop Disease As Teenager, Just Like Humans

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There are fewer pathways (green strands) for information to flow between neurons in the brain of a mouse bred to exhibit symptoms of schizo...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds

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The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspe...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Brain's Organization Switches As Children Become Adults

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The organizational structures in the human brain undergo a major shift during the transition from childhood to adulthood. Brain regions are ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Brain's Problem-solving Function At Work When We Daydream

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These are fMRI brain scans from UBC Mind Wandering Study. (Credit: Courtesy of Kalina Christoff) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (May 12, ...

Brain's Willpower Spot Found

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From Live Science: When healthy eaters choose broccoli over a Butterfinger, they use a small region in their brains that indulgers don't...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Brain Has "Moving" Parts

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From Scientific American: A study in the journal Science reveals that the brain region responsible for the intention to move the body also e...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Mechanisms Of Self-Control Pinpointed In Brain

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This 3-D projection of a transparent brain shows the regions of activation: the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is in red, and the ...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Magic And The Brain: Teller Reveals The Neuroscience Of Illusion

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From Wired News: One of the first tricks in Penn and Teller's Las Vegas show begins when Teller—the short, quiet one—strolls onstage wit...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

How To Wake Up Slumbering Minds

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From The Wall Street Journal: Will the discoveries of neuroscientists help us to think, learn and remember? We are in the midst of an explos...