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• Stomach hormone may help slow Parkinson’s progression

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a hormone produced in the stomach that can help boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease.Parkinson’s disease is caused by a degeneration of dopamine neurons in an area of the midbrain known as the substantia ...
  21 hours ago

• Polyphenols and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Boost the Birth of New Neurons, Study Finds

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  You can now add consuming healthy fats and fruits to the exercise as a way to increase neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons in the brain. However, I will want to see these results reproduced by independent researchers - this study was funded and conducted by the people making the "functional food" under review. ...
  1 day ago

• Cells that last a lifetime

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Q: If I am 95 years old, do I have any cells in my body that were present when I was 3 years old? What about at conception? Also, could you expand on your earlier statement, “stem cells live a lifetime?” In a nutshell, I am curious if I am a completely “new” person or if there is anything “in” me that has ...
  2 days ago

• Holiday Blues for Business Boom

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 461
  Ever notice how Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to bring out blues in some and blessings in others? Or how lonely people see vast spaces between themselves and others – even at festive  holiday tables? First glances  show people blessed with close family and  friends feel blessed over holidays while those ...
  3 days ago

• IBM’s biggest brain simulator works as good as a cat’s brain (only)

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 158
  The human brain is far too complex, the biggest brain simulator built by IBM, run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer, can only reach the level of a cat’s brain.This brain simulator was developed by IBM’s Almaden research center. It consists of 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses, which ...
  5 days ago

• Coconut Oil May Feed the Starving Alzheimers Brain

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 547
  The brain cells of people with Alzheimers Disease dont utilize glucose well. Glucose is the brains primary fuel, enabling brain cells (neurons) to produce acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter necessary for coherent thought. read more
  1 week ago

• Tiny insect brains can perform remarkable feats of mental gymnastics

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 18 (ANI): A growing number of studies indicate that although insects have tiny brains, they can perform some seriously impressive feats of mental gymnastics.According to a report in Discovery News, the studies indicate that insects can count, categorize objects, even recognize human faces - all ...
  1 week ago

• Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again

  
  Simon Willison's Weblog — Authority: 581
  Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again . Optogenetics is a rapidly growing field which uses viruses to implant genes from plants in to neurons and enable them to be controlled by blue and yellow light. In the lab it’s made mice run in circles without causing any apparent long-term damage, and the technology ...
  1 week ago

• Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 783
  Scientists are working on unconventional methods for controlling neurons in the brain. In one such experiment, a mouse’s behavior was controlled by shining a light directly on its brain! But this was no ordinary brain -the mouse had DNA from algae inserted into its neurons, which made them responsive to light. The ...
  1 week ago

• Reflections On Coffee Sobriety

  
  [F]oxymoron — Authority: 112
  It’s been two weeks since I’ve consumed a cup of coffee. TWO WEEKS!!! If you regularly stop by, then you probably know that coffee is my cheap, non-complaining, no strings attached, legal drug of choice (caffeine inspired posts I’ll never again be able to replicate: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ).  A day ...
  1 week ago

• Party On, Dude

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Unless you have alienated everyone around you, in the next two months you are likely to be invited to at least one party. If you take the perspective of a visitor from outer space, parties are actually sort of weird: "The humans gather in groups and consume food and other substances that make them dizzy. Using ...
  1 week ago

• New neurons erase old memories to make new ones (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Newborn neurons in the brain make room for new memories by moving out the old ones, concludes a new mice study.The study provides some of the first evidence that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus (a brain region associated with learning and memory) cause the decay of short-term fear ...
  1 week ago

• ScienceNow - New Neurons Make Room for New Memories

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Very cool - the brain is far more resilient than we ever thought it was. New Neurons Make Room for New Memories Enlarge Image Out with the old. New neurons in the hippocampus (pink label, top panel) may help clear out old memory traces, according to research with rodents with impaired ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Power Does It Take To Simulate The Human Brain? [Robots]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
      Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new “Neurogrid” supercomputer might be able to do it on only 20 watts. More here: How Much Power Does It Take To Simulate The Human Brain? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reconciling Difference

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Her joys, her woes, Her highs, her lows, Are second nature to me now; Like breathing out and breathing in. . . .Ive grown accustomed to the trace, Of something in the air; Accustomed to her face. -My Fair Lady Today, Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady raises more than a few politically correct eyebrows, yet the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A child’s way of counting reveals why we are so smart.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Ask any four-year-old child for his age, and chances are he will hold up four fingers. He will count and add with his fingers too, and this is true for children all over the world. To count with your fingers, you need to be able to move each separately, a skill not found in all mammals. In fact, most ...
  2 weeks ago

• Four Powerful Tricks for Successful Lucid Dreaming

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  By definition, Lucid Dreaming means ?conscious awareness during the dream state.? But how can this be? Every book I?ve ever read on dreaming has described the dream state as being an entry into the unconscious, so how can you possibly be conscious during dreaming, and be able to enter your dreams. It?s [...]
  3 weeks ago

• BIS Study:Mobile phones pose no threat to health

  
  movies, news, photos, gossip, videos - Searchandhra.com — Authority: 159
  Those who worry that mobile phones and their transmission towers are health hazards can now relax following studies coordinated by
  3 weeks ago

• Drug candidate for treating spinal muscular atrophy identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  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, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Born to Perform

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Few events in popular music were as momentous as the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. Paul McCartney recently revisited the Ed Sullivan Theater to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman, and he recounted a story about his early appearances as a young man. As he waited to ...
  3 weeks ago

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