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Watching Another Person’s Dreams Moves a Step Closer to Reality
Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios...
New Aqueous Reagent Turns Biological Tissue Transparent
Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organization, have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent. Experiments using fluorescence microscopy on samples treated with the reagent,...
When It Comes to Pursuing Your Goals, Let You Unconscious be Your Guide
A new University of Alberta study says when it comes to goal setting, your unconscious mind can be a great motivator. Alberta School of Business researcher Sarah Moore and colleagues from Duke and Cornell universities say that unconscious feelings about...Scientists Highlight Link Between Stress And Appetite
Researchers in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine have uncovered a mechanism by which stress increases food drive in rats. This new discovery, published online this week in the journal Neuron,...
Is Meditation an Exercise Regime for the Brain?
Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation may indeed be good for all of us...A Better Way to Remember
Scientists and educators alike have long known that cramming is not an effective way to remember things. With their latest findings, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, studying eye movement response in trained mice, have elucidated...‘The Potential to Modify the Course of Parkinson’s Disease’
Georgetown University Medical Center’s Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, joins preeminent scientists from academia, government, and industry along with advocates, at the “One Mind for Research Forum,” a three-day conference designed to dramatically...Tiny Variation in 1 Gene May have Led to Crucial Changes in Human Brain
The human brain has yet to explain the origin of one its defining features – the deep fissures and convolutions that increase its surface area and allow for rational and abstract thoughts. An international collaboration of scientists from the Yale School...
