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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Traumatic brain injuries in illustrated literature: experience from a series of over 700 head injuries in the Asterix comic books

One might find this interesting:

Background

The goal of the present study was to analyze the epidemiology and specific risk factors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the Asterix illustrated comic books ( Read more... )

3-D Images Reveal How Brain Loses Cconsciousness:
Scientists monitored the brain activity of 17 patients as they succumbed to anesthesia

New 3-D images reveal for the first time what happens inside the brain when a person loses consciousness, suggesting the mysterious sleeplike state occurs as electrical activity deep in the brain dims and ( Read more... )

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Head Transplant: The Truly Disturbing Truly Real Story from Jim Fields on Vimeo.
A short documentary by Jim Fields about neuroscientist Robert White, including footage of a brain kept alive (sort of) outside a body, and a monkey head transplant. Bits of it are quite disturbing. The article I found it in is a good read, too.

umm. i don't know if this counts, but i thought it was cool in a pop science kind of way?

Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mindthe real scientific discovery actually has very little to do with einstein, and has been known for two decades, but the story as a whole is interesting and slightly crazy in a way i've come to almost expect ( Read more... )

IS A sound only a sound if someone hears it? Apparently not. Silent videos that merely imply sound - such as of someone playing a musical instrument - still get processed by auditory regions of the brain.

Kaspar Meyer at the University of Southern California in ( Read more... )

An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide. In an initial study, Dr. Paolo Zamboni took 65 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, performed a simple operation to unblock restricted bloodflow out of the brain - and two years after the ( Read more... )

A newborn baby has become the first in the world to receive xenon gas treatment, pioneered in Bristol in a bid to prevent brain injury.

Riley Joyce had no pulse and was not breathing when he was first delivered by emergency Caesarean section at the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

(  He had a 50:50 chance of permanent brain injury and was transferred to St Michael's Hospital, Bristol. )

Pictures of the brain taken by neuroscientist. Jazzy elevator music included.

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