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A New Brain Implant Automatically Detects and Kills Pain in Real Time
A group from the New York University School of Medicine have designed a smart, closed-loop brain implant to detect and relieve bursts of pain in real time.
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Israeli researchers have identified the precise molecular details of the brain's hunger switch, making it possible to design targeted drugs to suppress appetite without the adverse side effects of cur... View More
Israeli scientists say they’ve paved way to turn off the brain’s ‘hunger switch’
Peer-reviewed research at Weizmann Institute is most detailed insight into MC4 hunger-controlling receptor; drugs may now be able to target it precisely, without major side effects
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The impact of a lack of mathematical education on brain development and future attainment
Our knowledge of the effect of a specific lack of education on the brain and cognitive development is currently poor but is highly relevant given differences between countries in their educational cur...
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A group from the New York University School of Medicine has developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that connects two brain regions together to detect and kill pain in real-time. One part of the BMI... View More
A New Brain Implant Automatically Detects and Kills Pain in Real Time
A group from the New York University School of Medicine have designed a smart, closed-loop brain implant to detect and relieve bursts of pain in real time.
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Google and Harvard University have released a browsable 1.4-petabyte reconstruction of roughly one cubic millimeter of brain tissue. The 3D reconstruction was created from 225 million 2D images of tis... View More
Google helps map one cubic millimeter of human brain tissue - 9to5Google
The human brain is one of the most complex structures in existence. Google and Harvard University today shared a human brain map...
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Scientists remotely controlled the social behavior of mice with light
New devices — worn as headsets and backpacks — rely on optogenetics, in which bursts of light toggle neurons, to control mouse brain activity.
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From apes to birds, there are 65 animal species that “laugh”
Laughter is spread widely across mammals and occurs in birds, too.
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Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy.
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Optogenetics is a method of controlling neurons with light. A team of researchers from Northwestern University built an ultraminiature, wireless, battery-free, and fully implantable optogenetics devic... View More
Implanted wireless device triggers mice to form instant bond: First optogenetics-based study of unrestricted social interactions within groups of animals
Researchers have wirelessly programmed -- and then deprogrammed -- mice to socially interact with one another in real time. The advancement is thanks to an ultraminiature, wireless, battery-free and f...
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Scientists at the Krembil Brain Institute, part of University Health Network (UHN), in collaboration with colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), have used precious and rare a... View More
Study identifies unique characteristics of human neurons
Scientists at the Krembil Brain Institute, part of University Health Network (UHN), in collaboration with colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), have used precious and rare a...
