What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside? ...full story at digg
from digg on Tue, Nov 03 2009
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A New Look At Brain Control » slashdot one_neuron_two_neuron writes "Researchers at Harvard have taken a new look at how electricity can make neurons fire in the brain. The scientists found some surprising things: if you stick an electrode in the brain and apply current, you don't just make a... |
| 03 Mar 09 |
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Rewiring Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering » digg Human beings worked out a few thousand years ago that the brain is where the action is. Since then we've been trying to get it to do what we want it to. |
| 17 Jun 09 |
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How Alcohol Changes the Brain ... Quickly » digg In the name of science, eight men and seven women drank alcohol through a straw while lying in an MRI scanner, presumably not all together, to see what would happen in their brains. |
| 12 Oct 09 |
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Cure For Jet Lag? Scientists ID "Wakefulness" Brain Cell » digg A pill that cures jet lag is a step closer, after scientists discovered how signals from the brain control our biological clocks. Experiments on mice have found that there is only one brain cell which fires our circadian rhythm - or body clock - whereas... |
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Scientists extract images directly from brain » digg Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. Further development of... |