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Phineas Gage, Neurology's Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined...
Getting Inside Phineas Gage's HeadCopyright John Darrell Van Horn and the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, 2012Scientists are getting another chance to get inside Phineas Gage's head. The 25-year-old...
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Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They're Planning to Do Before They...
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Electrical Current Can Unlock The Seriously Good Drugs In Your Brain
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Mouse Brain Cells Can Live Years Longer Than The Mice They Came From
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Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells
Wild Lab MouseTambako the JaguarWhen you think of a brain, you might imagine a flashing chain of neurons beaming messages to one another. But a new paper suggests that's not the whole story, and they...
View ArticleScientists Capture All The Neurons Firing Across A Fish's Brain On Video
Video of 1VBD6Rhy63gA month ago, a team of Japanese scientists managed to capture a zebrafish's thoughts on video. Now, you can now watch the entire brain of a larval zebrafish light up as its...
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Want People To Look Hotter? Get Your Brain Zapped
Angelina in Red LipstickDan MacMedan/WireImageTo the list of curious things getting your brain zapped can do, add this: make the people around you seem more attractive.Researchers from the California...
View ArticleA Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Could It Happen...
Video of vU7jAUkrV30Michael Boatwright, a Florida man found unconscious in a California Motel 6 months ago, woke up in a Palm Springs hospital in February speaking exclusively Swedish. News of...
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Branch-Like Dendrites Function As Mini-Computers In The Brain
NeuronMethoxyRoxy via Wikimedia CommonsA new paper in Nature suggests that we've been thinking about neurons all wrong. Namely, it suggests that dendrites, the tree-like branches of wiring that extend...
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For 21st-Century Kids, Home Microfluidics And Neurology Kits
Hand-Cranked Microfluidics MachineCourtesy of George KorirWe've seen a lot of nostalgia for ye olde chemistry sets lately. Nobel Laureates have reminisced about playing with them. These days, sets...
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Prairie Voles Show Empathy Just Like Humans
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Researchers Use Modified Rabies Viruses To Map The Brain
Andrew MurrayThe spinal cord of a mouse with the modified rabies virus.Few diseases match rabies' rampant method of self-replication and domination of the brain. The virus multiplies, spreading from...
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What Happens To A Football Player's Brain During A Concussion?
Associated PressWhen the concussion occurred?Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers moments before being laid low by Vontaze Burfict.No matter who you root for during this Sunday’s Super Bowl 50, a...
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Interconnected Shared Memories May Be The Next Stage Of Humanity
Technology They could increase our understanding and sympathy Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a video series...
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Want People To Look Hotter? Get Your Brain Zapped
Science After getting a shock to the brain, subjects in a recent study rated the people around them as more attractive. To the list of curious things getting your brain zapped can do, add this: make...
View ArticleA Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Could It Happen...
Science A cheat sheet for the strange case of Michael Boatwright, the 61-year-old who reportedly forgot his native language.
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Branch-Like Dendrites Function As Mini-Computers In The Brain
Science Previously thought to be passive, the branching brain wires actively compute signals. A new paper in Nature suggests that we've been thinking about neurons all wrong. Namely, it suggests that...
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For 21st-Century Kids, Home Microfluidics And Neurology Kits
Science Take that, ye olde 1950s chemistry sets. We've seen a lot of nostalgia for ye olde chemistry sets lately. Nobel Laureates have reminisced about playing with them. These days, sets containing...
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Prairie Voles Show Empathy Just Like Humans
Animals You can't spell LOVE without VOLE A group of scientists from Emory University have discovered that the tiny voles console others in distress, proving that humans and other large brained...
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Researchers Use Modified Rabies Viruses To Map The Brain
Science Turning a foe into friend Researchers have figured out a way to leverage rabies to not kill the brain, but instead map it. Researchers have figured out a way to leverage rabies to not kill the...
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