MetaFilter posts tagged with Brain and research

The undiscovered cortex

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:40:57 -0800

Eternal Sunshine Within Reach.

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:26:36 -0800

Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory : spotless minds might be closer than we think.

Life Through the Lens

netbros — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:11 -0800

Microscope Imaging Station opens a door to the wonder of the microscopic world and allows the layman to explore it. They seek to recreate some of the excitement and wonder that the earliest biological researchers found. Features include cells with potential as well as bad oogy. The microscopic Galleries are inhabited by zygotes and organelles.

Blind, Yet Seeing

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:33:17 -0800

Blind, Yet Seeing : New research into blindsight from Harvard University and M.I.T. showing that people who have been blinded by brain injury have resources beyond sight to do such tasks as navigate an obstacle course (movie).

Dreaming is a private thing.

teraflop — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:59 -0800

A team of researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto have managed to reconstruct black-and-white visual images from an fMRI scan of a test subject's brain. Some more examples of the recovered data. The organization responsible claims that the technology to record thoughts and dreams is just around the corner. The paper, "Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders", is the cover article of the December 10 issue of the journal Neuron. [via]

It feels good to help.

longsleeves — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:15:46 -0800

You are most welcome. sigh. Bill Gates must feel like several billion dollars.

Brain research.

semmi — Sun, 14 May 2006 10:11:51 -0800

The Pain in the Brain. (NYT)

Switching off self-awareness

0bvious — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:16:23 -0800

Researchers have found that prolonged concentration on a difficult task actually switches off a person's self awareness. Fancy experiencing this sensation for yourself? That would be an oxymoron in existence. Just lay back and let the orgasm take hold.

singularity gets just slightly closer

jeffburdges — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:52:06 -0800

Italian & German researchers have created a "neuro-chip" for linking computers with mammalian neurons (A NewScientist, LiveScience, MSN). They added neuron gluing proteins to the chip to attract the sodium pores, and genetically modified the neurons to add more sodium pores.

In the short term, the work is expected to aid the pharmaceutical industry in testing the effects of drugs on neurons, assist basic research into the workings of the brain, and perhaps help treat neurological disorders. In the long term, numerous sci-fi technologies are slightly closers, such as computers with living components, useful brain implants, and Beowulf clusters of humans.

I'm blue, da boo dee, da boo die...

reflection — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:51:05 -0800

Blue Gene bears Blue Brain beats Deep Blue. Dr. Henry Markram answers questions in the FAQ. Neurons are beautiful. Blue Gene/L is now the fastest supercomputer in the world. IBM Research rocks. Deep Blue beat Kasparov almost a decade ago. F e e l i n g B l u e ?

Seductive Solutions for Rough Illnesses

daksya — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:43:59 -0800

Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature

Science of Sleep

Gyan — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:28:53 -0800

Nature has a somewhat technical but free supplement on sleep

Sorry, can't hear you, there's a probe in my ear.

greatgefilte — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:39:25 -0800

Wearing a shiny red hard-hat could be the latest way to gauge brain activity on the cheap, Aussie researchers report.

Brain in a Dish Flies Plane

grabbingsand — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:46:18 -0800

Brain in a Dish Flies Plane. Hallowe'en-esque research conducted at the University of Florida.

Speak Deutsch?

Gyan — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:28:34 -0800

Being Bilingual Protects Against Some Age-related Cognitive Changes.
Full paper link.

NeuroFilter

Gyan — Thu, 06 May 2004 21:54:52 -0800

Interesting papers in neuroscience. From Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology.
PDFs

Grod — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:20:05 -0800

Gene Prevents 'Brains Everywhere' The human version of the gene probably is not involved in keeping the human brain inside the skull, but likely plays some other role in nervous system development in human embryos, says Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, a developmental biologist at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Cool.

y2karl — Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:07:34 -0800

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