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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 [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged brain, dna, genes, medicine, pituitary, regenerative medicine, RIKEN, yoshiki sasai
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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 [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health
Tagged bci, brain, brain scan, brain-computer interface, fmri, Jack Gallant, uc berkley, visual cortex
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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 [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged brain, hyperthymesia, james mcgaugh, jill price, memory
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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 [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Video Central
Tagged brain, brain scan, emotiv, milab smart phone
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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 [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged brain, rTMS, TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation
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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 [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged Betsy Sparrow, brain, cognition, google, kurzweil, Nicholas Carr
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged brain, Cortexica, image recognition, reverse-engineering, Vision Search, WINEfindr
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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 [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Video Central
Tagged brain, Deisseroth, Ed Boyden, Genetics, optogenetics
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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 [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged body 2.0, brain, brain-computer interface, longevity, medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged brain, fetal stem cells, PISCES, ReN001, ReNeuron, Stem Cells, stroke, University of Glasgow
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged biomimetics, bionic, brain, DBS, deep brain stimulation, electrode, parkinson's disease, ReNaChip
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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 [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Singularity
Tagged ai, BOINC, brain, distributed computing, simulations
15 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged bci, brain, brain-computer interface, telepathy, tweet, tweet with brain, twitter
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged ai, AI, brain, hawkins, intelligence, jeff hawkins, neocortex, neuron, prediction
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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 [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged array, artificial retina, blind, brain, electrode, eye, macular degeneration, sight
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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 [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Robots
Tagged bci, brain, brain-computer interface, implant, signal
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