Aug 30, 2022
Engineers develop novel material that can think and sense
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: materials, neuroscience
The soft, polymer material acts like a brain, simultaneously sensing, thinking, and acting.
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Aug 29, 2022
Boosting neuron production restores memory in mice with Alzheimer’s
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Aug 29, 2022
Seven New Areas in the Insular Cortex Identified
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: mapping, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers at the Human Brain Project have identified and mapped 7 new areas of the insular cortex.
Source: Human Brain Project.
All newly detected areas are now available as 3D probability maps in the Julich Brain Atlas, and can be openly accessed via the HBP’s EBRAINS infrastructure.
Aug 29, 2022
Protein ‘Traffic Jam’ in Neurons Linked to Neurodegeneration
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Dampening retromer activity slows down the trafficking of tau in neurodegenerative disorders, a new study reports.
Source: EPFL
Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease are associated with atypical proteins that form tangles in the brain, killing neurons. Neurobiologists at EPFL have now identified some key mechanisms underlying the formation of these tangles.
Aug 29, 2022
How a meritocratic society will increase the mental and physical health of it’s people
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: government, health, neuroscience
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Aug 29, 2022
Dr. Max More | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #404
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cryonics, law, life extension, neuroscience
Dr. Max More is a philosopher, writer, speaker and expert in Cryonics — the process of cryopreserving a body at the time of legal death in the hopes of reviving them in the future.
Theo talks with Dr. More about what actually happens when we die, the future of mankind, and if Theo would preserve his brain for science.
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Aug 29, 2022
Potential Way to Tune the Brain Into Learning Mode
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: neuroscience
Summary: Study reveals how the element of surprise helps facilitate learning and memory retrieval.
Source: University of Manchester.
A study by University of Manchester neuroscientists into the effect of surprise on our memory has inadvertently discovered a method which might help us to perform better in exams.
Aug 29, 2022
What Makes the Human Brain Different?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers have identified human-specific cell types in the prefrontal cortex. These unique cells may explain why humans are more susceptible to neuropsychiatric diseases than other primate species.
Source: Yale.
What makes the human brain distinct from that of all other animals—including even our closest primate relatives?
Aug 29, 2022
An Alzheimer’s-Proof Brain: Ground-Breaking Case Provides Clues to Treatment and Prevention of Dementia
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
Due to a rare genetic mutation, Aliria Rosa Piedrahita de Villegas should have had Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no current cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but there are medications that can help ease the symptoms.
Aug 29, 2022
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of the arrow of time
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, neuroscience, particle physics
The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world. But precisely how this phenomenon, known as the arrow of time, arises from the microscopic interactions among particles and cells is a mystery—one that researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS) are helping to unravel with the publication of a new paper in the journal Physical Review Letters. The findings could have important implications in a variety of disciplines, including physics, neuroscience, and biology.
Fundamentally, the arrow of time arises from the second law of thermodynamics: the principle that microscopic arrangements of physical systems tend to increase in randomness, moving from order to disorder. The more disordered a system becomes, the more difficult it is for it to find its way back to an ordered state, and the stronger the arrow of time. In short, the universe’s tendency toward disorder is the fundamental reason why we experience time flowing in one direction.
“The two questions our team had were, if we looked at a particular system, would we be able to quantify the strength of its arrow of time, and would we be able to sort out how it emerges from the micro scale, where cells and neurons interact, to the whole system?” said Christopher Lynn, the paper’s first author and a postdoctoral fellow with the ITS program. “Our findings provide the first step toward understanding how the arrow of time that we experience in daily life emerges from these more microscopic details.”
