Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, compared to a control group. "What's unique in this study is that brain-processing activities seemed to help ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body’s immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain. The findings provide unexpected insights into how immune cells are regulated in the brain and have implications for treatment of ...

British researchers say they've identified a "hate circuit" in the brain. This hate circuit shares part of the brain associated with aggression, but is distinct from areas related to emotions such as fear, threat, and danger, said researchers Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya, of University College London's laboratory of ...

  The new report, published in the free-access online journal PLoS Biology, provides the most complete rough draft to date of the cortex’s electrical architecture, the cluster of interconnected nodes and hubs that help guide thinking and behavior. The paper also provides a striking demonstration of how new imaging techniques focused on ...

This is a copy of http://heybryan.org/buildingbrains.html. Okay, so while the 292 used GB of the 500 GB LaCie hdd edmini (a "network drive" -- a POS, IMHO) is dumping itself on to the Maxtor OneTouch 750 GB hdd (an /actual/ external hdd, reformated to ext3 fs), I thought I'd take a few moments to write out what it is that I am ...

A GENE linked to IQ might also help to prolong life. The gene codes for an enzyme called succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH), which destroys GABA, a neurotransmitter that dampens brain activity and causes drowsiness. The gene comes in two common forms: the so-called "T" version is 20 per cent less efficient than the ...

When Alice climbs through the looking glass, she encounters a topsy-turvy world. People are punished before committing a crime, and sometimes fingers bleed before a pinprick occurs. Those strange events reflect a memory that works both ways in that world, allowing people to remember things before they happen. As the Queen explains to Alice: ...

Researchers at Rutgers hypothesized that BEP producing neurons do not just make us feel good, but also play roles in regulating the stress response and immune functions to control tumor growth and progression. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Dr. Dipak K. Sarkar and his colleagues demonstrate the ...

Of late, there has been a ballooning blog storm on self-directed neuroplasticity (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.), which has interesting implications in light of toposophy, which ''deals with the theoretical problems and possibilities of attempts to extend and amplify one's mental potential.'' And the page, over at Orion's Arm, continues, ''... most ...

You went to a wedding yesterday. The service was beautiful, the food and drink flowed and there was dancing all night. But people tell you that you are in hospital, that you have been in hospital for weeks, and that you didn’t go to a wedding yesterday at all. The experience of false memories like this following neurological damage is ...