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Apr 22, 2020

‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The virus is likely only to fuel the disaster preparedness industry in New Zealand and beyond. “Obviously the coronavirus is making people realize how vulnerable we all are, but what people are really concerned about is the aftermath,” said Vicino, the Vivos founder, who believes the wealthy fear an economic collapse or global depression could lead to uprisings against the top 1%. “They don’t want to have to defend their homes when the gangs of looters or marauders show up.”


Interest in New Zealand bunkers has surged.

Apr 21, 2020

Origins of language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years old

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“Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years.”

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Apr 21, 2020

The King of Anti-Aging Proteins: Klotho with Dr. Sewell and Liz. Parrish

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofnm845BLDk

Klotho has been called the “king of anti-aging proteins.” It is an important biomarker and promising gene therapy treatment for Chronic Kidney Disease. It is more strongly correlated with IQ than any single gene, making it a potential nootropic and intelligence enhancing gene therapy.

https://biovivascience.myshopify.com/blogs/news/klotho-queen…g-proteins

Apr 20, 2020

Scientists create tiny devices that work like the human brain

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Compared to a conventional computer, this device has a learning capability that is not software-based.

Apr 20, 2020

New therapeutic options for multiple sclerosis in sight

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known as “the disease with a thousand faces” because symptoms and progression can vary dramatically from patient to patient. But every MS patient has one thing in common: Cells of their body’s own immune system migrate to the brain, where they destroy the myelin sheath—the protective outer layer of the nerve fibers. As a result, an electrical short circuit occurs, preventing the nerve signals from being transmitted properly.

Many MS medications impair immune memory

Researchers don’t yet know exactly which are involved in stripping away the myelin sheath. Autoreactive T and B , which wrongly identify the myelin sheath as a foreign body, travel to the brain and initiate the disease. “Up until now, MS drugs have essentially targeted these T and B cells, both of which are part of the acquired ,” says Dr. Alexander Mildner, a scientist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) and the senior author of the paper now published in Nature Immunology.

Apr 20, 2020

Insightful ideas can trigger orgasmic brain signals, finds study

Posted by in categories: evolution, neuroscience

New psychology study shows that some people have increased brain sensitivity for “aha moments”.

The researchers scanned brains of participants and noticed orgasm-like signals during insights.

The scientists think this evolutionary adaptation drives creation of science and culture.

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Apr 20, 2020

Researchers unveil electronics that mimic the human brain in efficient learning

Posted by in categories: biological, computing, engineering, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that would function/operate like real brain synapses.

But now a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered, while on their way to better understanding protein , how to use these biological, electricity conducting filaments to make a neuromorphic memristor, or “memory transistor,” device. It runs extremely efficiently on very low power, as brains do, to carry signals between neurons. Details are in Nature Communications.

As first author Tianda Fu, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and , explains, one of the biggest hurdles to neuromorphic computing, and one that made it seem unreachable, is that most conventional computers operate at over 1 volt, while the brain sends signals called action potentials between neurons at around 80 millivolts—many times lower. Today, a decade after early experiments, memristor voltage has been achieved in the range similar to conventional computer, but getting below that seemed improbable, he adds.

Apr 19, 2020

Human Magnetic Reception Laboratory

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Human Magnetoreception! What did we discover? We have confirmed that human neurophysiology is indeed sensitive to magnetism. We have discovered specific rotations of earth-strength fields that trigger distinctive brain wave activity that shows that we are subconsciously processing geomagnetic stimuli. Why is this so important? We’ve known about the five.

Apr 19, 2020

Tripping in LSD’s Birthplace: A Story for “Bicycle Day”

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Happy Bicycle Day!

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After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era.

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Apr 19, 2020

Confusion, seizure, strokes: How COVID-19 may affect the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A pattern is emerging among COVID-19 patients arriving at hospitals in New York: Beyond fever, cough and shortness of breath, some are deeply disoriented to the point of not knowing where they are or what year it is.

At times this is linked to low oxygen levels in their blood, but in certain patients the confusion appears disproportionate to how their lungs are faring.

Jennifer Frontera, a neurologist at NYU Langone Brooklyn hospital seeing these patients, told AFP the findings were raising concerns about the impact of the coronavirus on the brain and nervous system.

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