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You can control your Marilyn Monroe neuron

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a scientific first, researchers have been able to demonstrate the ability of humans to control the activity of individual brain cells.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 12 weblog

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study Shows Electrical Fields Influence Brain Activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that e ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Serial killing follows predictable pattern based on brain activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over a period of 12 years, Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least 53 people before being arrested in Rostov, Russia, in 1990. While Chikatilo’s killings, mainly of women and children, may ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Researchers show brain waves can 'write' on a computer in early tests

Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. By merely focusing on the "q" in a matrix of letters, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 3

Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth's climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 4

Studying altered brain cells sheds light on epilepsy

Neuroscience researchers have zeroed in on a novel mechanism that helps control the firing of electrical signals among neurons. By isolating the molecular and electrical events that occur when this control is disrupted, the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

From touchpad to thought-pad? Research shows that digital images can be manipulated with the mind

Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first

A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Advanced technology reveals activity of single neurons during seizures

The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy halted in mice

Scientists at Leeds have prevented epilepsy caused by a gene defect from being passed on to mice offspring - an achievement which may herald new therapies for people suffering from the condition.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Epileptic seizures may be linked to an ancient gene family

New research points to a genetic route to understanding and treating epilepsy. Timothy Jegla, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified an ancient gene family that plays a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy Patients Are Given New Hope With Brain Implant

(PhysOrg.com) -- A startup company, Neuropace in Mountain View Ca., has developed a device that offers new hope for epilepsy patients. The device is designed to neutralize the abnormal electrical activity ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 weblog

Electronic tattoo monitors brain, heart and muscles (w/ video)

Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Understanding Balance in the Nervous System

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UConn neuroscientist is studying a signaling pathway in the brain that is the target of many anxiolytic medications.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0