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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.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Nora Taranto |
Wiring the Brain with CSF Research by HHMI investigator Bernardo Sabatini suggests that self-reinforcing loops of neural activity may drive the development of synapses in the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that uses sensory and social context to direct movement. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Deborah Franklin |
Helping Preemies Treating myelin injuries and tracking brain cell development to rescue the littlest patients. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Richard Saltus |
Nerve Tonic A mouse with a random mutation changed forever the way scientists think about how injured nerves die -- and how, conceivably, their death might be delayed or prevented. |
Chemistry World
July 2, 2013
Jeanne Therese Andres |
Mapping receptors in the brain Scientists from the UK and Germany have developed new compounds that target and bind to brain proteins linked to serious neurological disorders. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Rabiya Tuma |
Sister Act As a systems neuroscientist, Yang Dan integrates functional studies in animals with computer programs, computational tools, and statistics. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Willie D. Jones |
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Corinna Wu |
Mouse Cam Tracking techniques offer a long-term view into the mouse brain. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Better Than a Straitjacket Scientist Sandhya P. Koushika devised an inexpensive, simple way to get the worms to pause so she can image cellular activity in the transparent creatures. |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior. |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2006
Michael Gross |
Biotronics Branches Out Harvard researchers have developed nanowire transistors that interface with individual neurons and, even better, with the individual neuronal extensions that reach out to contact other cells. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Cell Phones And Cancer With so much money in the cell phone industry, it looks like straight answers regarding the risks will be hard to come by. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Locating a Genetic Glitch A team of 41 scientists led by HHMI investigator Louis Ptacek has pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes sudden, uncontrollable movements. The culprit is a little known protein that may be responsible for communication between neurons. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
DIADEM Contest Moves Neuromapping in the Right Direction In September, DIADEM -- short for Digital Reconstruction of Axonal and Dendritic Morphology -- came to a close, with a tournament-style conclusion between five final teams taking place at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus. |
Chemistry World
June 2, 2006
Jon Evans |
Axons Get Directions Scientists are a step closer to understanding the processes that control the growth and spread of nerve cells, following the discovery of a protein complex that directs the transport of building material to growing axons. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours. |
Technology Research News
March 10, 2004 |
Chip controls neural connection Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany and the University of Calgary in Canada have used a silicon chip to coax a pair of nerve cells to communicat |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? The cellular phone is fast becoming the single most important piece of personal electronics - but at what cost and do cell phones cause brain cancer? |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
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
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. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Gregory Berns |
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
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... |
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. |
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? |
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 |
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
April 5, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Target for Memory-Enhancing Pills Identified Researchers have taken a step towards developing a pill that could improve memory by pinpointing and testing a potential target enzyme in the brain. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n08 How fast does your brain process information? This website will tell answer that question. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Very Hungry Mouse Activating one set of neurons makes a mouse eat, and eat, and eat. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Paul Muhlrad |
Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm. |
CIO
August 18, 2011
Agam Shah |
IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips IBM makes chips based on the structure and operation of the human brain. |
Wired
April 21, 2008 |
6 Intelligence Myths Exposed A realistic look at some popular myths regarding boosting your brain power. |
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. |
Fast Company
September 2005
Ryan Underwood |
The Celebrity Cell Is Jessica Simpson living in your brain? Researchers now know why we remember celebrity-filled ads. But do they work? |
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. |
