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Nathan Seppa |
Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise In The Most Difficult Cases By Jamie Talan / Science News Jamie Talan describes brain surgery aimed at addressing movement disorders and zeros in on deep-brain stimulation, a cutting-edge treatment in which doctors implant electrodes.   |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2012
Nina Notman |
Tracking Chemical Changes in the Brain New insight into how deep brain stimulation works could improve treatments for neurological diseases. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Thinking It Through The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) allows users to control cursors and software applications by simply imagining the motions. |
Science News
October 2, 2004 |
Skeptical Brains A link to a site dedicated to showcase recent media misinterpretations of brain studies. |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n08 How fast does your brain process information? This website will tell answer that question. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Samuel K. Moore |
Electromagnetic Depression Treatment Nears Approval Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation adds to psychiatry's arsenal of electronic remedies |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Working Out At The Brain Gym A new form of fitness is being offered in a different kind of gym -- a gym for the mind. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo? In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains. |
PC Magazine
July 4, 2008
Logan Kugler |
Understanding the Brain As much as we know about the human brain, there's just as much we don't know. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Outside
November 2002
Neal Thompson |
Strengthen the Muscle Between Your Ears True fitness follows the adage "Use it or lose it." Turns out the brain follows the same rule. Here's a two-part approach to brain development -- physical and mental -- which you can effortlessly incorporate into your existing workout plan. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
But Can It Flip People Off? This robotic hand can play against you in a game of rock-paper-scissors. |
| AskMen.com |
Foods To Boost Brain Power Check out this list, put together for AskMen by nutritionist Naomi Mead. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005 |
Dr. Oesterle's Stimulating Work Medtronic's chief medical officer, Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle, discusses the progress and potential of using "implanted pulse generators" to treat chronic ailments. |
| AskMen.com |
Electrical Muscle Stimulation By sending electrical impulses to the muscles while working out, the body works harder and more efficiently than it ever could while at the gym. |
Science News
June 18, 2005 |
Brain Aneurysms This Web site, maintained by the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, offers information on treatment options, recovery, support groups, and upcoming seminars for patients and family members with the condition. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Gary Stix |
A Sex Chip? Targeting the Brain's Pleasure Center with Electrodes Could growing clinical use of brain electrodes lead to a chip for sexual stimulation? |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2011
Carl Saxton |
Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells. |
Wired
March 2007
Steven Gulie |
A Shock to the System To slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, doctors planted electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics. |
AskMen.com
Eddie Chandler |
14 Tips To Keep Your Mind Active By regularly engaging in the right activities, you can increase your memory, improve your problem-solving skills and boost your creativity. Here are some tips on how to keep your mind active. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2013
Melissae Fellet |
Painting circuits on skin Painting a patient's skin with a liquid metal ink could make heart monitoring much less painful and even let doctors keep an eye on a whole range of vital signs. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain. |
Science News
November 3, 2007 |
Science Safari: Numbers, by Any Other Name A site that delves into the origin of numbers and offers brain teasers and puzzles to help you learn. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Melinda Wenner |
A Few Transcranial Zaps and You're a Happy Genius A new technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation may let neuroscientists listen to the conversations between cells in your brain. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA Allows Expansion of St. Jude Study to Treat Severe Depression St. Jude moves forward with treatment for depression. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Erico Guizzo |
Rat, Monkey, and Man Control Robots With Their Minds As brain-machine interfaces become more advanced, so do the devices they can control |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
Home Theater
May 3, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Nintendo Lets You Beat your Children Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for the Nintendo DS is a clever collection of puzzles and tests that is designed to keep people's minds active with fun mental workouts that incorporate the user-friendly voice-command and touch-screen capabilities of Nintendo DS. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Eric Hagerman |
Don't Panic. It Makes You Stupid. Research finds that while a little nervousness can boost cognitive performance, periods of intense stress essentially turn us into Neanderthals. |
Health
September 2007
Nancy Matsumoto |
You Must Remember This A new generation of computer games can help you boost your memory. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
AskMen.com
Jonathan Harvey |
Improve Your Mind With Music Do you think it's possible to become smarter and think more clearly with music? Can someone become a more effective learner, reader and thinker without even breaking a sweat? |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Bookshelf In Your Money & Your Brain, veteran financial journalist Jason Zweig takes readers inside the brain to illustrate what happens during the investing process. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000 |
IBM Brain Quest Brain Quest First Grade by IBM is an excellent piece of software to use with children in the classroom or at home.... |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Redefining Smart Jeff Hawkins tackles his greatest passion, the study of the brain, in his new book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines." |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2009
James Urquhart |
Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Benefits Of Dairy American and Australian researchers examined 1,000 adults and found that those who regularly consumed dairy products like milk, cheese and yogurt did better on mental ability tests than those who rarely or never eat dairy. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Nanoparticles and ultrasound team up to treat tumors A new, non-invasive method to deliver drugs to the brain has been developed by Taiwanese researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Virginia Hughes |
A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures Torrents of data produced by implanted microelectrodes could finally yield a prediction system |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sally Adee |
Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface Engineers are learning to translate between the neural signals of the brain and the machine language of a prosthetic arm. |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Head Conk Scientists have developed the Infrascanner. It's a handheld device from InfraScan designed to detect instantly whether hematoma (bleeding in the brain) is present. |
Inc.
May 2009
Leigh Buchanan |
Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management. |
