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Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Mark Harris |
MRI Lie Detectors Can magnetic-resonance imaging show whether people are telling the truth? |
Scientific American August 2008 Gary Stix |
Can fMRI Really Tell if You're Lying? Will brain scans ever be able to tell if you're really being deceptive? |
Popular Mechanics November 2007 Jeff Wise |
Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life In the past decade, a wave of researchers using scans has laid bare the rough schematics of how our brains handle fear, memory, risk-taking, romantic love and other mental processes. Soon, the technology could go even further, pulling back the curtain guarding our most private selves. |
Wired January 2006 Steve Silberman |
Don't Even Think About Lying How brain scans are reinventing the science of lie detection. |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Joan O'C. Hamilton |
Journey To The Center Of The Mind "Functional" MRI is yielding a clearer picture of what thoughts look like |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Samuel K. Moore |
Teaching Machines About Madness Software rivals doctors at distinguishing among different kinds of depression and schizophrenia |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
Wired October 2004 Jennifer Kahn |
If You Secretly Like Michael Bolton, We'll Know A proud nerd puts her prefrontal cortex on the line to discover why brain mapping is the new trend spotting (and the hottest trend in brain science). |
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. |
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Detecting Lies From chewing rice to scanning brains, the perfect lie detector remains elusive. |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 26, 2012 Carmen Nobel |
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire It's easy for businesses to keep track of what we buy, but harder to figure out why. Enter a nascent field called neuromarketing, which uses the tools of neuroscience to determine why we prefer some products over others. |
Entrepreneur January 2006 Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
CRM January 2010 Jessica Tsai |
Are You Smarter Than a Neuromarketer Companies have always aimed for the customer's heart, but the head may make a better target. |
Nursing December 2010 Teresa E. Hills |
Determining brain death: A review of evidence-based guidelines No true standardization of brain death criteria is accepted nationwide, and procedures and protocols vary significantly among facilities. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 8, 2007 Jim Heskett |
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction? The growing use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices for studying decision making means that in 2007 we may hear a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a small number of brain scans. |
Inc. September 1, 2002 Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
Technology Research News October 3, 2005 Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
Outside October 2009 Douglas Fields |
Are the Mountains Killing Your Brain? Alarming new science shows that thin air can wreck brain cells at lower altitudes than you'd think. Here's how to protect yourself. |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Adam L. Penenberg |
NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing To Hack Your Brain Intel, PayPal, Pepsi, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done. |
Reason July 2007 Brian Doherty |
'You Can't See Why on an fMRI' What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 |
Reporting From the Field Freelance writer Mark Harris tests an MRI-based lie detector |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Mark Anderson |
This Is Your Brain on fMRI The science of mind reading is further along than you might think |
Wired February 25, 2008 David Wolman |
A Researcher's Puzzles Point to the Differences in the Autistic Brain Some scientists are setting aside the assumption that autistic brains are defective and instead focusing on how the autistic brain is different. |
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 |
National Defense February 2010 Austin Wright |
Deployable Brain Scanner Could Help Treat Soldiers' Head Injuries John E. Kimura, the president and CEO of Sensorium Inc., believes his system will allow neurologists in the United States to peer into the heads of wounded soldiers in remote areas. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2001 David S. Kushner |
Concussion in Sports: Minimizing the Risk for Complications Mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, is a common consequence of collisions, falls and other forms of contact in sports. The physician's responsibilities in assessing an athlete with concussion include offering guidance about the athlete's ability to return to play... |
InternetNews October 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Point, Click, Save Your Brain New study suggests link between Internet activity and mental acuity. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 2006 Michael Gross |
Cupid's Chemistry Scientists are beginning to make some sense of romantic love through modern imaging techniques and a multidisciplinary approach involving geneticists, biochemists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others. |
Reason October 2005 Maia Szalavitz |
In Defense of Happy Pills While psychotherapy validated by research has its place, there is no convincing reason why it should be considered inherently superior to drugs. Pleasure can be just as important for emotional recovery and growth as pain, if not more so. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 11, 2013 Carmen Nobel |
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business Economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. Christine Looser discusses her research on how the brain detects aliveness and the possible implications for organizations and advertisers. |
Scientific American January 9, 2006 Philip E. Ross |
Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway? |
Scientific American December 2008 Lizzie Buchen |
The Science of Finding a Face in the Crowd Discrete brain sections form a dedicated network to recognize faces |
Outside April 2009 Florence Williams |
This Is Your Brain On Adventure You stand on a 300-foot cliff and think, Mommy. Ted Davenport stands there and thinks, Sick air! The difference, neuroscientists are finding, may lie in the very anatomy of our minds. |
Scientific American July 2006 Michael Shermer |
The Political Brain A recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias. |
Food Processing May 2011 Diane Toops |
Toops' Scoops: Scientific Proof that Food Addictions Exist When it comes to food addictions, there may be no clear line between addictive and normal responses - adding to the evidence that all "addictions" act on the same motivational system in the brain. |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Jena McGregor |
The Business Brain In Close-Up Can neuroscience offer insights into the 'soft' art of leadership? |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2008 Kate Schweitzer |
Fringe's Brain Science Flirts with Facts in 3rd Episode This week's episode of J.J. Abrams' sci-fi hit Fringe was full of situations in need of a reality check. We check in with a neurologist to debunk more of the show's junk science. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Molecular Probe Identifies Patients at Risk of Alzheimer's A new molecule could provide an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, US researchers hope. |
Psychology Today Jul/Aug 2008 Rebecca Webber |
Mesearch Some investigators take the quest for self-knowledge to the extreme: Meet five researchers who applied their scientific minds to the defining challenges in their own lives. |
Wired July 2005 Annalee Newitz |
The Coming Boom Big Pharma has made billions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm. For women, excitement starts in the brain. |
Scientific American July 2007 Michael Shermer |
The Prospects for Homo economicus A new fMRI study debunks the myth that we are rational-utility money maximizers. |
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. |
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. |
Teacher Magazine May 2000 |
Brainiacs While fanfare may feed the egos of brain researchers, it worries them, too. According to some scientists, brain research is being oversimplified, misinterpreted, and, most troubling, misapplied. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 5, 2014 James Heskett |
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement? Will you be taking a brain-scan for your next job interview? What is the emerging world of neuromanagement and what does it mean? |
Reason December 2000 Gwen J. Broude |
Scatterbrained Child Rearing Books: The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning, by John T. Bruer... Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, by Peter R. Breggin... |