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How a high-fat diet can help the brain work better
hat does it all mean? Well, in the brain, energy is everything. The brain needs a great deal of energy to keep all those membrane potentials maintained - to keep pushing sodium out of the cells and pulling potassium into the cells. In fact, the brain, which is only 2% of our body weight, uses 20% of our oxygen and 10% of our glucose stores just to keep running.
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For the brain, practice makes efficiency, not perfection
Brain does more with less energy when repeating well-practiced routines.
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Why your brain may work like a dictionary
A new analysis of the links between definitions of English words has uncovered structures that may resemble how our brains represent language
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Scientists Discover Links Between Insomnia and Daydreaming
Those who while away their days in a state of perpetual daydreaming are far more likely to suffer from insomnia, a new study suggests.
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Video Games Sharpen Older Brains
Getting older often means mental acuity declines. Some studies have pointed to the idea that you can exercise the brain to keep the mind sharp. But it’s been hard to pin down what’s happening and how real the effect is.
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What Happens In Your Brain When People Like Your Facebook Status
When you post something on Facebook, you're usually doing it so people read and appreciate it. So, when people actually do that and "like" your posts, you're going to feel better about yourself. Time breaks down what's going on in your brain when that happens.
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Neuroscientists find secrets of ‘sex on the brain’
Survey asks men and women to rank parts of the body by pleasure – and some of the results prove surprising
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How Did Our Brains Get So Brilliant?
Modern human brains evolved over the last two million years while confronting the survival challenges of African grasslands. So how do our savannah-derived brains perform high-flying cognitive feats—like reading, learning chess, and doing theoretical physics—that seem totally unrelated to our ancestral environment?
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Building Better Brains
Our brains are pretty important organs. Obviously, so are organs like skin and kidneys, but the human brain is what sets people apart from other animals. We still don't know that much about how our brains work, but that's not stopping some fascinating research that could extend our brains' capabilities with technology.
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Stephen Hawking: Brain could exist outside body but ‘conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark’
At premiere of film about his life, physicist says it’s theoretically possible to copy brain on to computer to provide life after death Stephen Hawking has said he believes brains could exist independently of the body, but that the idea of a conventional afterlife is a fairy tale.
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How Your Memory Works (and Three Ways to Improve It)
How would you like to be able to recall the name of a client or associate you just met? How would you like to go to the bank and not fumble for your account number every stinking time? Everyday scenarios like these are classic examples of our need for memorization. The function of memory has so many more applications, too—public speaking, schoolwork, studying, research, the list goes on and on. Imagine if we could be better at it.
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Bad Memories Could Be 'Erased'
The war veteran who recoils at the sound of a car backfiring, and the recovering drug addict who feels a sudden need for their drug of choice when visiting old haunts have one thing in common: Both are victims of their own memories. New research indicates those memories could actually be extinguished.
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The app that can read your mind
Wristbands are the latest craze in high-tech fitness hardware. Nike+ and Fitbit might ring a bell. But could headbands be the next big thing?
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Hawking: 'in the future brains could be separated from the body'
Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer - but not with technology existing today.
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Have scientists found a way to stop us eating too much?
New research has found an on-off switch in the brain for hunger. Could it stop us overeating?
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Could technology be used to control your mind?
As our brains become increasingly intertwined with our technologies, we run the risk of exposing our minds to hackers. As this new video from AsapScience shows, the possibility is very real.
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Einstein's Corpus Callosum Explains His Genius-Level Intellect
Einstein was undoubtedly one of the most influential physicists of all time, advancing concepts in quantum physics and gaining enormous notoriety for his theory of relativity. It comes as no surprise that Einstein’s brain appears physiologically distinct from that of the average individual. A recent study has sought to explain the man’s genius-level intellect, in part, based a difference in a structure called the corpus callosum.
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Dogs Are People, Too
FOR the past two years, my colleagues and I have been training dogs to go in an M.R.I. scanner — completely awake and unrestrained. Our goal has been to determine how dogs’ brains work and, even more important, what they think of us humans.
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Face blindness: Seeing but not seeing
Imagine that suddenly you cannot recognise your mother, your partner, your child. You can see them but your brain cannot process the information - you don't know whether they are smiling, or understand their emotions.
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Billion pound brain project under way
A 10-year, billion pound neuroscience project which aims to revolutionise our understanding of the human brain has begun. Scientists from 135 institutions, mostly in Europe, are participating in the The Human Brain Project (HBP).
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