Tag Archives: brain

Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells

Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]

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Technological Telepathy? Scientists Scan Your Brain To Watch The Movies Playing In Your Mind

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley can now read your mind and project the images you think of onto [...]

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Hyperthymesia – A Newly Discovered Memory In Which People Remember Every Day Of Their Lives (video)

What did you do on this day ten years ago? What day of the week was it? What was the [...]

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Brain Scans On The Go – EEG Hooked Up To Your Smart Phone

Human brains are like wild animals, you learn more when you can watch them in their natural habitat. That’s why [...]

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Can Magnets On Your Brain Keep You From Lying?

Could telling the truth be as easy as holding a magnet to your head? Researchers at the University of Tartu [...]

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Google This: The Internet Is Changing Our Brains – But So What?

The debate about whether or not computers are making us dumber, largely speculative to this point, has recently gotten a [...]

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Researchers Develop Neural Prosthesis That Improves Memory in Rats

Recent advances in neural prosthetics have allowed people to control a computer cursor using only their thoughts, and allowed one [...]

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Brain-Inspired Image Recognition Software From Cortexica Allows Computers to See (Video)

“Our ability to reverse engineer the brain–to see inside, model it, and simulate its regions–is growing exponentially. We will ultimately [...]

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New Technique Allows Scientists to Control Neurons In The Brain With Light (video)

More and more neuroscientists are using a new tool to shed light–literally–on the brain to uncover its secrets. The brain [...]

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Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)

A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]

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Cutting Edge Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms

Imagine that for years you’ve lived with a body that is in constant, uncontrollable, motion: your hands tremble, your head [...]

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Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How To Build One (video)

Will we ever create an accurate simulation of the human mind? Can we detect and measure consciousness? When will artificial [...]

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Scotland Injects Stem Cells into Man’s Brain to Heal Stroke Damage

There are few medical calamities that terrify as many people as a stroke. Of those that survive the sudden blocks [...]

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Reverse-Engineering The Brain: Kurzweil Defends Ideas In Open Letter

At the most recent Singularity Summit on August 14, 2010 Ray Kurzweil delivered a keynote promoting his thesis on how [...]

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Exercise Boosts Your Brain – Here’s How

We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even [...]

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Computer Chip Implant to Program Brain Activity, Treat Parkinson’s

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Matti Mintz at the University of Tel Aviv is working on a [...]

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Create an AI on Your Computer

If many hands make light work, then maybe many computers can make an artificial brain. That’s the basic reasoning behind [...]

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The Emotiv Headset – Gaming With Thoughts Alone

Mind control is coming to a home near you. Well, it’s not going to let you lull your neighbors into [...]

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Posting Tweets with Brain Power

Tired of using thumbs to endlessly update Twitter on a cell phone?  Well, worry no longer about finger injuries from [...]

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Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

When Descartes said “I think therefore I am” he probably didn’t know that he was answering a security question. Using [...]

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Brain-Doping at the Lab Bench

One year ago on April 1st, the World Anti-Brain Doping Authority (WABDA) released a statement that scientists would soon be [...]

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FACETS: Making Computers Work Like Brains

How can you get a computer to solve problems like a brain? How does the brain even solve problems to [...]

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Jeff Hawkins: Recreating Human Intelligence

If you are at all interested in artificial intelligence and understanding how the human brain works then following the work [...]

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Artificial Retina Brings Sight Back to the Blind

Wow!  Physorg.com reports that an artificial retina has achieved real success in bringing limited sight to the blind.  The Department [...]

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The Rise of the Cyborgs

Discover Magazine has just blown me away with a fascinating story on the current state of brain-computer interfaces (BCI).  The [...]

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