Items tagged with brain

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Gene Sheds Light On Neurological Disorders Sunday, May 25th, 2008 - 10:26:50 - Ehud Rattner In our brains, where millions of signals move across a network of neurons like runners in a relay race, all the critical baton passes take place at... read more

Your Belly's Very Own Body Clock Friday, May 23rd, 2008 - 16:48:05 - Ehud Rattner In a paper published today in Science 1, a team led by Clifford Saper from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts suggests they have found... read more

Cat Brain Could Provide Bionic Eye Firmware Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 - 20:12:17 - Ehud Rattner It may not be able to catch mice yet, but software developed in the US can perceive moving images in much the same way a cat's brain does. The... read more

Huntington's Disease in Monkies? Monday, May 19th, 2008 - 10:34:40 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University, have discovered the first conclusive evidence of Alzheimer’s-like... read more

Mind Reading Baseball Cap Sunday, May 18th, 2008 - 11:44:59 - Iddo Genuth It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain... read more

Fruit Fly Avoidance Mechanism Avoids Pain Monday, May 12th, 2008 - 18:40:42 - Ehud Rattner At first, fruit flies eat like horses. Hatching inside over-ripe fruit where they were laid, they feed wildly in the sugar-rich environment until... read more

Justice in the Brain Friday, May 9th, 2008 - 16:07:44 - Ehud Rattner Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A study appearing this week... read more

Simple Brain Exercise Can Boost IQ Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 - 08:42:14 - Ehud Rattner Can mental training improve your intelligence? No video game or mental puzzle has convincingly been shown to work. But now a group of... read more

Religion a Figment of Human Imagination? Monday, April 28th, 2008 - 08:45:39 - Ehud Rattner Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of... read more

How Quickly Can a Rat Perceive Novel Odors? Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - 16:15:42 - Ehud Rattner Odor perception in mammals is a multistep process that begins when olfactory sensory neurons in the animal's nose detect an odor molecule and then... read more

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