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• Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 128
  "It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "Its like jogging; the body doesnt remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.
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• Thank you!

  
  Almost Scientific — Authority: 113
  Thank you all for coming to the show last night at The Exploratorium .  I had a great and exhausting time.  It was fantastic to see so many friends out in the crowd, and I’m sorry I did not get to talk to any of you for as long as I would have liked. I’d like to especially thank Almost Scientific team members ...
  5 days ago

• Robotic Life

  
  Electric Children — Authority: 116
  HRP-4C Hatsune Miku Cosplay Human Brain Accepts Cyborg Limbs and Robots Act Like Humanoids “It turns out that the human body may adapt well to Borg-like accessorization,” notes this report on experiments proving that our brain can incorporate “cyborg additions” into our body schema. (Even after using a ...
  6 days ago

• Drug candidate for treating spinal muscular atrophy identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 5 (ANI): Scientists have identified a chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline that might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants. The finding is based on a study conducted by Adrian Krainer, ...
  1 week ago

• Higher Education Change Opportunities

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 456
  Written By Ellen Weber, PhD and Robyn McMaster, PhD Higher Education and Brain Based Benefits Challenges of Change Renewal is to the university community today what Renaissance was to the Middle Ages. Both encompass a resurgence of learning. Both tap into more potential from the human brain. To ...
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• Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder

  
  Psych Central — Authority: 108
  Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder , or IEED, is a condition in which a person experiences uncontrollable episodes of emotional expression. That is, they have episodes of crying, laughter, or anger that are not in line with their present mood. The condition is also known as labile affect, pseudobulbar ...
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• Age-Related Loss of Spiral Ganglion Neurons

  
  COMD News — Authority: 450
  Spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) are the relay station for auditory information between hair cells and central nervous system. Age-related decline of auditory function due to SGN loss can not be ameliorated by hearing aids or cochlear implants. Recent findings clearly indicate that survival of SGNs during aging depends ...
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• Seoul National University Mishap

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Ranjan BhaduriOct. 29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Hwang Woo-suk, 56, has been given a two year sentence by Judge Bae Ki-yeol of Seoul Central District Court, for the embezzlement of funds and illegal trading in human embryos. The sum he ripped off the Government, in the form of grants has been huge, amounting to $700,000. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Epilepsy drugs may help treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 28 (ANI): A potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s has been discovered by US researchers.The study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, found that neurons in the brain ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does Coffee Boost Brain/ Cognitive Functions Over Time?

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 598
  A few eternal questions: - Is caffeine good for the brain? - Does it boost cognitive functions? - Does it protect against dementia? There is little doubt that drinking that cup of morning coffee will likely increase alertness, but the main questions that research is trying to answer go beyond that. Basically: is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Companion Biomarkers in Drug Development

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 156
  The term “companion biomarker” means that a particular diagnostic test is specifically linked to a therapeutic drug either in drug development or in the clinic. Biomarkers of disease have long played an important role in diagnostic medicine as evidenced by the intense use of specific clinical laboratory tests in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pharmacogenomics for Clinical Use and in Drug Development

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 156
  Pharmacogenomics, the science of individualizing drug therapy based on the genetic makeup of individual patients, offers an unusual opportunity for future market growth. Applying pharmacogenomics would allow doctors to treat specific segments of the population based on their particular responses to a drug. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Optogenetics: the key to our cyborg future?

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  There’s a lengthy but interesting piece up over at Wired about the relatively young discipline of optogenetics – the science of isolating and communicating with specific types of neuron using light . The discovery of the process is an interesting story in its own right, but the really futurismic bit is the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brain Neurons Create Timestamps To Keep Time and Control Actions

  
  Discoveries In Science — Authority: 114
  A team of researchers, including Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University and neuroscientists from MIT and Japan’s RIKEN Brain Science Institute have discovered that specific neurons in primate brains keep track of time. This knowledge could help in creating cures for diseases such as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Researchers Create Artificial Memories in the Brain of a Fruitfly

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 128
  As part of a project to understand how the brain learns, biologists have written memories into the cells of a fruitflys brain, making it think it had a terrible experience.More Articles
  3 weeks ago

• Just Listen - Its Enough to Make a Grown Man Cry

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I like to consider myself a fairly empathic guy, but on a recent appearance on "This Week in Startups" I told Jason Calacanis that I am viewing people more as modems than as human beings. Nearly everyone who is connected to the Internet is connected through a modem and everyone who uses a modem has had on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists give flies memories of bad experience

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): Oxford scientists have succeeded in directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons to give flies memories of a bad experience-something they never really had. “Flies have the ability to learn, but the circuits that instruct memory formation were unknown. We were able to pin the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blokes and Babes Where You Work

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 456
  Heaven or Havoc? Which of these characters work with or in you? Serotonin Sam : “Feelin’ good - hey guys you’re welcome to share, anytime.” Cortisol Carol “Touch my stuff and you die!” Plasticity Patty : “Glad to ...
  8 weeks ago

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