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Dec 1, 2016
Is BRAIN HACKING the future of war? Experts predict drone control chips, ‘neural dust’ to treat PTSD and remote weapons to disrupt soldier’s thoughts all set to become commonplace
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, drones, neuroscience
This has been worked on since WWII using various methods that never fully worked out. However, our technology has advance; so it could be within reach this time.
An expert from Rutgers University Newark explores the proper role of neuroscience in defense and war efforts, and how technologies designed with this science can be misused to harm people.
Dec 1, 2016
Neuroscience Is a Tool of War
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, drones, government, military, neuroscience
What could once only be imagined in science fiction is now increasingly coming to fruition: Drones can be flown by human brains’ thoughts. Pharmaceuticals can help soldiers forget traumatic experiences or produce feelings of trust to encourage confession in interrogation. DARPA-funded research is working on everything from implanting brain chips to “neural dust” in an effort to alleviate the effects of traumatic experience in war. Invisible microwave beams produced by military contractors and tested on U.S. prisoners can produce the sensation of burning at a distance.
What all these techniques and technologies have in common is that they’re recent neuroscientific breakthroughs propelled by military research within a broader context of rapid neuroscientific development, driven by massive government-funded projects in both America and the European Union. Even while much about the brain remains mysterious, this research has contributed to the rapid and startling development of neuroscientific technology.
Nov 30, 2016
IEEE Brain-Computer Interface Hackathon Participant Builds Mobile App to Detect Distracted Driving
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, neuroscience
Nov 30, 2016
China’s Former Richest Man Turns His Mind to Neuroscience
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: neuroscience
Nov 29, 2016
Depression Treatment
Posted by Matthew White in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, wearables
https://youtube.com/watch?v=melzXkH8KPY
The Happy Headband. Take my money.
The Fisher Wallace Stimulator® is a wearable neurostimulation device that is cleared by the FDA to treat depression and anxiety. During each 20-minute treatment session, the device gently stimulates the brain to produce serotonin and other neurochemicals that reduce depression and anxiety (and support healthy mood and sleep). The device has been proven to be safe and effective in multiple published studies conducted at top institutions such as Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital.
Nov 28, 2016
Neuroscientists Wirelessly Control the Brain of a Scampering Lab Mouse
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: genetics, neuroscience
Nov 28, 2016
Brain Activity Predicts the Force of Your Actions
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers have discovered a link between nerve clusters in the brain and the amount of force generated by a physical action.
Source: Oxford University.
Researchers have found a link between the activity in nerve clusters in the brain and the amount of force generated in a physical action, opening the way for the development of better devices to assist paralysed patients.
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Nov 28, 2016
Mystery of bleary-eyed astronauts may be cleared up with spinal fluid study
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: neuroscience
Scientific Method —
Mystery of bleary-eyed astronauts may be cleared up with spinal fluid study.
Small study finds fluid that cushions the brain floods eye cavities in microgravity.
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Nov 28, 2016
Researchers may have uncovered an algorithm that explains intelligence
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: information science, mathematics, neuroscience, robotics/AI
What if a simple algorithm were all it took to program tomorrow’s artificial intelligence to think like humans?
According to a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, it may be that easy — or difficult. Are you a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of person?
Researchers behind the theory presented experimental evidence for the Theory of Connectivity — the theory that all of the brains processes are interconnected (massive oversimplification alert) — “that a simple mathematical logic underlies brain computation.” Simply put, an algorithm could map how the brain processes information. The painfully-long research paper describes groups of similar neurons forming multiple attachments meant to handle basic ideas or information. These groupings form what researchers call “functional connectivity motifs” (FCM), which are responsible for every possible combination of ideas.
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