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Magic Mushrooms Create a Hyperconnected Brain
Magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain.
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Lost memories might be able to be restored, new UCLA study indicates
New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. For decades, most neuroscientists have believed that memories are stored at the synapses -- the connections between brain cells, or neurons -- which are destroyed by Alzheimer's disease. The new study provides evidence contradicting the idea that long-term memory is stored at synapses.
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The surprising downsides of being clever
Can a high IQ be a burden rather than a boon? David Robson investigates. If ignorance is bliss, does a high IQ equal misery? Popular opinion would have it so. We tend to think of geniuses as being plagued by existential angst, frustration, and loneliness. Think of Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, or Lisa Simpson – lone stars, isolated even as they burn their brightest. As Ernest Hemingway wrote: “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
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Up To 90% Of Your Perception Could Be Made Up Purely By The Brain
Reality is real, but what you see, that's all in your head.
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5 Illusions That Fool Your Taste Buds And Guts
Our perception of food (and how we feel after we've eaten it) is not as stable as we might think. Here are five ways our guts and taste buds can be hoodwinked: The bottomless soup bowl When it's time for dinner, hunger isn't the only influence on how much we eat; environmental cues can trick...
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Cat Parasites May Not Be Making Us Crazy After All
As an animal lover with a special affinity for cats, every few weeks I receive an article from a concerned friend, claiming that the Toxoplasma parasite in cats is making us crazy and killing more than a million people each year by driving them to car crashes, pushing them to violent suicides, boo...
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Out-of-Body Experience Is Traced in the Brain
What happens in the brain when a person has an out-of-body experience? A team of scientists may now have an answer.
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Inflated False Positives in fMRI: SPM, FSL and AFNI
Back in 2012 I discussed an alarming paper showing very high rates of false positives in single-subject fMRI analyses. Swedish researchers Anders Eklund and colleagues had tested the performance of one popular software tool for the statistical analysis of fMRI data, SPM8. But what about other analysis packages?
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What Is the Sexiest Part of the Brain? | WIRED
Some brain areas show up more commonly in swanky journals. Others on Twitter. Wired Science blogger Christian Jarrett asks, which brain area wins?
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The dawn of artificial intelligence
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking warns. Elon Musk fears that the development of artificial intelligence, or AI, may be the biggest existential threat humanity faces. Bill Gates urges people to beware of it. Dread that the abominations people create will become their masters, or their executioners, is hardly new.
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I freeze people's brains for a living
My own interests in cryonics are a messy mish-mash of different motives. I read some magazine article by Max More back when he was starting the Extropians in the mid-1990s. Then a book came out, The Engines of Creation, about nanotechnology. I’m a very hands-on thinker and am drawn to three-dimensional, mechanical-type things, which is why I went into Otolaryngology. For me, cryopreservation was an obvious mechanical problem. You’ve got molecules; why not lock them in place so that...
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A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain
This cell database serves as a first step toward a full-scale understanding of the brain.
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"Mysteries of the Brain" video series debuts
A new video series released today takes viewers on a journey to unlock the mysteries of the brain and better understand how this complex organ functions.
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Neuroscientists capture the moment a brain records an idea (Wired UK)
New research using cutting-edge brain imaging technology has offered the first glimpse into how new concepts develop in the human brainNew research using cutting-edge brain imaging technology has offered the first glimpse into how new concepts develop in the human brain -- to the point where it's possible to tell exactly what kind of object someone's thinking about
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Neuroscience: The man who saw time stand still
One day, a man saw time itself stop, and as David Robson discovers, unpicking what happened is revealing that we can all experience temporal trickery too. (2014)
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Old World Monkey Had Tiny, Complex Brain
Video shows the 3-dimensional computer model of the oldest known Old World monkey skull, believed to be 15 million years old.
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Lips are the Most Exposed Erogenous Zone, Which Makes Kissing Feel Very Good
Scientists in the Netherlands have reported that we share about 80m bacteria during a passionate ten-second kiss; a finding that makes puckering up seem cringe-worthy – and downright unsanitary at the start of cold and flu season.
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Blocking brain protein could stop memory loss caused by ageing
Stopping a protein that builds up with age has been shown to aid memory and help mouse brains remain young. If true in humans, a drug could halt memory loss.
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Peeking into the brain's filing system
Neuroscientists are building up a surprisingly clear picture of exactly where our memories live.
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Brain abnormalities in people with schizophrenia identified
Structural brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia have been identified by researchers, providing insight into how the condition may develop and respond to treatment.
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