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Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity

Giving low-income families more money changes a child’s brain activity, and the effect can be seen by a child’s first birthday.

“Neuroscientists have described links between a child’s socioeconomic background and the structure of the brain,” says Kimberly Noble at Columbia University in New York. “But all that work has been correlational to date.”

Instead, Noble and her team are looking at how exactly child poverty causes reduced grey matter volume in the hippocampus and frontal cortex, which is associated with the subsequent development of thinking and learning. These changes have been seen throughout childhood and adolescence.

Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Company Is Preparing to Launch Human Trials

Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink appears to be gearing up to launch its first-ever human trials, with the firm now looking to recruit a director to run the tests.

According to The Guardian, the entrepreneur, who owns a variety of science-based start-ups, is preparing to take Neuralink’s brain chip research to the next stage by hiring a mission-driven Clinical Trial Director to begin human testing. The company is moving toward potentially finding a way to use the technology to treat people with brain and spinal injuries.

Brain Regeneration: Transplanting Patients’ Own Cells

Stroke is the world’s second-leading cause of death. Survivors may suffer brain damage that causes severe impairments in motor, language or other abilities. Japanese doctors have spent years developing a treatment that regenerates the brain using the patient’s own cells. Clinical trials are underway. A participant who had complete paralysis on one side of her body can now walk. The treatment takes stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and injects it directly into the brain.

Less wattage, more brain power

𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣-𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 (𝘽𝘾𝙄𝙨) 𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣-𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 (𝘽𝙈𝙄𝙨) 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝘼𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣, 𝘽𝘾𝙄𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮’𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨. 𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙔𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 (𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎) 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙔𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙝… See more.

The Neuro-Network.

𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞:

𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫


Yale SEAS teams with the Medical School to deliver a faster, more capable brain-implanted device to treat multiple disorders.

Brain device records activity in record-breaking detail

Beyond that, the ECoG technology could be developed for use in the emerging field of brain-computer interfaces, which have a huge range of potential applications – from controlling a computer just by thinking, to streaming music directly to your brain.

By uncovering new knowledge about how the brain works, for example, the device could be used to interpret hand motions in new ways utilising brain wave patterns.

2022: The Year in which Virtual Reality goes Mainstream

The Future of Virtual Reality has been shown at CES 2022 in the form of retina display VR Headsets, full body tracking solutions and brain computer interfaces previewing what the future of full dive virtual reality could look like. Companies such as Meta/Facebook, Google, Apple and Valve are all investing millions into making Virtual Reality mainstream and look just like real life.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A vision into the Future at CES
00:50 Next Generation VR Headsets.
02:29 The Future of VR Hardware.
04:47 VR CPU’s & GPU’s.
07:00 Is the Future of VR Mainstream?
07:48 Last Words.

#virtualreality #vr #future

Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity

The Neuro-Network.

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄

𝐒𝐞𝐱-𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲

𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 1,000 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚-𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚… See more.


Stanford scientists found more than 1,000 gene-activation differences between female and male mice’s brains, plus more than 600 between females in different stages of their reproductive cycle.