What do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one ( Read more... )

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California improved thinking and restored decision-making in five monkeys using an electrode array implanted into their prefrontal cortex-the area of the brain responsible for planning and decision-making.

In the study, published last week (September 13) in The Journal ( Read more... )

Retrospective analysis shows hallucinogenic drug helped problem drinkers


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A baby girl born starved of oxygen whose body was cooled for three days to reduce brain damage has made a complete recovery.Doctors at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge wrapped baby Ella in a special blanket filled with fluid which cooled her whole body down from the normal 37C to 33.5C ( Read more... )

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Fossilized 13th century brain with intact cells
Category: Archaeology • Neuroscience

Posted on: March 22, 2010 2:30 PM


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Brain scans read memoriesFORMATION of a memory is widely believed to leave a 'trace' in the brain - a fleeting pattern of electrical activity which strengthens the connections within a widely distributed network of neurons, and which re-emerges when the memory is recalled. The concept of the memory trace was first proposed nearly a century ago, but ( Read more... )

The Perfect Cram Drug? Scientists Identify Single Enzyme To Fix The Memory Of a Tired Brain

We've all been there, late at night and early in the morning, forcing any and every last morsel of knowledge into our weak and exhausted brains. But when the test flops down on our desk, we just stare blankly at the forbidding blue book page. All that ( Read more... )

Mar. 2--By the time Scott Hayner of Highland Park was 7, he had had one skull fracture and three major concussions from falling off horses.

Nobody connected those accidents to the difficulties he had in school as he acted out, stopped talking for three months and cried daily for two years. As an adult, he seemed to be a thriving, successful ( Read more... )