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Apr 30, 2018
Brain imaging show that patients with Alzheimer’s disease can still remember and enjoy their favorite songs
Posted by Alvaro Fernandez in categories: biotech/medical, health, media & arts, neuroscience
Not surprising and yet fascinating to actually see — “The researchers found that music activates the brain, causing whole regions to communicate. By listening to the personal soundtrack, the visual network, the salience network, the executive network and the cerebellar and corticocerebellar network pairs all showed significantly higher functional connectivity.”
“Ever get chills listening to a particularly moving piece of music? You can thank the salience network of the brain for that emotional joint. Surprisingly, this region also remains an island of remembrance that is spared from the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at the University of Utah Health are looking to this region of the brain to develop music-based treatments to help alleviate anxiety in patients with dementia. Their research will appear in the April online issue of The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease…
Apr 29, 2018
Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans, Study Finds
Posted by Alexander Rodionov in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, engineering, neuroscience
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person’s own memory patterns to facilitate the brain’s ability to encode and recall memory.
In the pilot study, published in today’s Journal of Neural Engineering, participants’ short-term memory performance showed a 35 to 37 percent improvement over baseline measurements. The research was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Apr 29, 2018
An Introductory Guide to Understand how ANNs Conceptualize New Ideas (using Embedding)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Here’s something you don’t hear everyday – everything we perceive is just a best case probabilistic prediction by our brain, based on our past encounters and knowledge gained through other mediums. This might sound extremely counter intuitive because we have always imagined that our brain mostly gives us deterministic answers.
We’ll do a small experiment to showcase this logic. Take a look at the below image:
Apr 29, 2018
How to Increase Klotho (Protein) + Gene Associations
Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in categories: life extension, neuroscience
Klotho increased intelligence helps you regenerate muscle is an anti-aging and health-promoting significantly enhances our antioxidant balance.
Klotho is a protein that can make you more intelligent and live longer. Read on about how to increase it.
If you want to interpret your genes, you can use SelfDecode.
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Apr 26, 2018
This Start-Up Wants to Upload Your Brain to a Computer
Posted by Marcos Than Esponda in categories: computing, neuroscience
This tech might be able to recreate your consciousness in a computer. The only catch? You have to die.
Apr 25, 2018
Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in category: neuroscience
Brain in a vat technology?
If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber.
Apr 25, 2018
Stem Cell Implants in the Brain Could Delay Aging
Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Scientists at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine have conducted experiments and found that stem cell implants in the brains of mice can stop aging and help the treated animals remain fitter for longer.
What part of the brain controls aging?
The experiments have helped researchers identify that a part of the brain called the hypothalamus is intimately involved in the aging process. The investigators hope to launch trials in humans to see whether similar treatments with neural stem cells can prolong the life of treated individuals.
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Apr 24, 2018
This Neurologist Found Out What Happens to Our Brains When We Die
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Apr 24, 2018
Older people still grow new brain cells as young people, study shows
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
Older people can still grow new brain cells like young people, new study shows. Reference: surg.ws/2GYVXOU
Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people.
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