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Nov 18, 2021

How Google is Reading Your Thoughts — Scientists Mapping the Human Brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Google is secretly working with the world’s leading neuroscientists on mapping the entire Human Brain. Neuroscientists at have released the most detailed 3D map of the mammalian brain ever made. Google has helped them by funding their goal to create the most detailed map yet of the connections within the human brain. It reveals a staggering amount of detail, including patterns of connections between neurons, as well as what may be a new kind of neuron.

The applications in the field of Brain Computer Interfaces or understanding medical conditions are staggering. But it’s doubtful that this will just help companies such as Neuralink develop advanced future brain computer interfaces and will likely lead to Google doing evil things by understanding people’s way of thinking and delivering ads to them.

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Nov 18, 2021

What Are the Ethics of an Implant That Delivers Pleasure Directly Into Your Brain?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, ethics, neuroscience, sex

For example, scientists recently treated a patient’s severe depression with a neural implant that zaps her brain 300 times per day and, she says, has allowed her to spontaneously laugh and feel joy for the first time in years. Of course, the treatment requires an electrode implanted deep into the brain, which currently reserves it for the most extreme medical cases — but as brain interface tech inexorably becomes more advanced and widely available, there’s no reason such a device couldn’t become a consumer gadget as well.

At the research’s current rate of trajectory, experts told Futurism, the tech could conceivably hit the market in just a few years. But what we don’t know is what it will mean for us, psychologically as individuals and sociologically as a society, when we can experience genuine pleasure from the push of a button. And all those questions become even more complex, of course, when applied to the messy world of sex.

“A big question that remains unanswered is whether sextech will ultimately become a complement to our sex lives or a substitute,” Kinsey Institute research fellow Justin Lehmiller, an expert on sex and psychology, told Futurism.

Nov 17, 2021

Evolutionary Cybernetics 101: Gaia 2.0, Web 3.0

Posted by in categories: education, evolution, neuroscience

Cybernetics can be defined as a multidisciplinary approach to study feedback-driven systems of control between animal and machine.

Nov 17, 2021

Clinical trial of nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease underway at Boston hospital

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

It is designed to activate white blood cells found in the lymph nodes on the sides and back of the neck to migrate to the brain and trigger clearance of beta-amyloid plaques — one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s. I-Mab Biopharma (I-Mab) and Jiangsu Nhwa Pharmaceutical (NHWA) are responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of Protollin.

The trial represents the culmination of nearly 20 years of research led by Dr. Howard L. Weiner, co-director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at the Brigham.

“The launch of the first human trial of a nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s is a remarkable milestone,” said Weiner. “Over the last two decades, we’ve amassed preclinical evidence suggesting the potential of this nasal vaccine for AD. If clinical trials in humans show that the vaccine is safe and effective, this could represent a nontoxic treatment for people with Alzheimer’s, and it could also be given early to help prevent Alzheimer’s in people at risk.”

Nov 16, 2021

A key brain region responds to faces similarly in infants and adults

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The Neuro-Network.

𝘼 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨

𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙭 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙚… See more.

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Nov 16, 2021

Insular cortex neurons encode and retrieve specific immune responses

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Neuronal ensembles in the mouse insular cortex activated during distinct inflammatory conditions are capable of retrieving or suppressing the associated peripheral immunological responses.

Nov 16, 2021

Can lucid dreaming help us understand consciousness?

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𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙪𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨?


The ability to control our dreams is a skill that more of us are seeking to acquire for sheer pleasure. But if taken seriously, scientists believe it could unlock new secrets of the mind.

Nov 16, 2021

New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer’s

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

LifeArc scientists, in collaboration with researchers in the UK and Germany, have developed a promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it.

Both the antibody-based treatment and the protein-based vaccine developed by the team reduced Alzheimer’s symptoms in mouse models of the disease. The research is published today in Molecular Psychiatry.


LifeArc and researchers in the UK & Germany have developed a promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s.

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Nov 14, 2021

Sponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙃𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨


A new study of gene expression in sponges reveals the complex diversity of their cells as well as some possibly ancient connections between the nervous, immune and digestive systems.

Nov 14, 2021

Multivitamins, but not cocoa, bound for slower brain aging

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

Taking a daily multivitamin for 3 years is associated with a 60% slower cognitive aging, with the effects particularly pronounced in patients with cardiovascular (CVD) disease, new research suggests.

In addition to testing the effect of a daily multivitamin on cognition, the COSMOS-Mind study also examined the effect of cocoa flavonols, but showed no beneficial effect.

The results “may have important public health implications, particularly for brain health, given the availability of multivitamins and minerals and their low cost and safety,” said research researcher Laura D. Baker, PhD, professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.