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How We’re Battling Virtual Reality’s Dreaded Simulator Sickness
Like many other eager early adopters, my first encounter with virtual reality headsets began with heart-pounding excitement, and ended in nightmarish nausea.
To an unfortunate subpopulation of people, virtual reality’s side effects are no joke....
First 3D-Printed Drug Ushers in Era of Downloadable Medicine
3D-printed widgets are taking the medical world by storm. Polymer-based skull implants? Check. Doughnut-shaped Tylenol pills? Check. Totally rad-looking prosthetic arms with a $150 price tag? Check again.
These, and plenty other medical novelties, clearly...
Are Artificial Neural Networks the Key to Unravelling the Mysteries of Autism?
Autism is a tough nut to crack.
Part of the reason is complexity: The disorder manifests in a bewildering array of symptoms — everything from basic perceptual disturbances to high-level cognitive and social deficits. Because...
Think Your Conscious Brain Directs Your Actions? Think Again
Think your deliberate, guiding, conscious thoughts are in charge of your actions?
Think again.
In a provocative new paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a team led by Dr. Ezequiel Morsella at San Francisco State University...
How Tiny Lab-Grown Human Brains Are Giving Big Insights Into Autism
First came lab-grown mini-hearts. Then came 3D printed skin. Now scientists have taken “body on a chip” to a whole new level.
Starting with skin cells from patient biopsies, scientists transformed them back into stem...
Animal Brains Networked Into Organic Computer ‘Brainet’
Imagine a future where computers no longer run on silicon chips. The replacement?
Brains.
Thanks to two separate studies recently published in Scientific Reports, we may be edging towards that future. In a series of experiments,...
How the Brain Makes Memories: Scientists Tap Memory’s Neural Code
Some of our most treasured memories begin with a simple association: the smiling face of that special someone, tied forever to the place where you first met.
Sadly, these episodic memories — memories that encode...
