We can respond to verbal stimuli while sleeping
From Institut du Cerveau (Paris Brain Institute) 08/11/23 Sleep is generally defined as a period during which the body and mind are at rest—as if disconnected from the world. However, a new study led by Delphine Oudiette, Isabelle Arnulf, and Lionel Naccache at Paris Brain Institute shows that the frontier between wakefulness and sleep is […]
Mechanism decoded: How synapses are formed
From Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie 03/11/23 Whether in the brain or in the muscles, wherever there are nerve cells, there are synapses. These contact points between neurons form the basis for the transmission of excitation, i.e. communication between neurons. As in any communication process, there is a sender and a receiver: Nerve cell processes called […]
Innovators develop technology to tabulate and characterize every cell in the human brain
From Massachusetts General Hospital 03/11/23 The brain is made up of numerous types of cells that are organized into different structures and regions. Although several important steps have been made towards building models of the human brain, the advances have not produced undistorted 3D images of cellular architecture that are needed to build accurate and […]
Meta decodes images from brain activity in real-time
From Superinnovators 25/10/23. This article is in TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read) format which is popular in the innovation community and provides a bullet summary of information. More info https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain-ai-image-decoding-meg-magnetoencephalography/ https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/image-decoding You may also be curious about:
How video games could unlock new treatments for Parkinson’s
From University of California – Riverside 19/10/23 A$5 million NIH grant is adding an ‘extra life’ to Parkinson’s research, with patients playing video games during brain surgery to help researchers understand better how the brain regulates movement. Vasileios Christopoulos, assistant professor of bioengineering at UC Riverside, is leading the five-year project whose goal is to […]
Brain washing machine: Light-therapy cleanses Alzheimer-causing toxins during sleep
From Higher Education Press 28/09/23 It is well known that sleep is the best medication. However, it is still unknown why the brain recovers better in sleep and whether these processes can be controlled. Recent discoveries have shown that the lymphatic system of the brain is activated during sleep, which contributes to the removal of […]
I know what you are thinking: AI detects person’s intentions from just brain wave data
From DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) 22/09/23 The research team led by Professor Sanghyun Park from the Department of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at DGIST (President Kuk Yang) announced that they have developed a few-shot learning model capable of accurately classifying brain waves using a small amount of information. A large amount […]
Mind reading: Innovators capture Pink Floyd song by decoding brain activity
From PLOS 16/08/23 Researchers led by Ludovic Bellier at the University of California, Berkeley, US, demonstrate that recognizable versions of classic Pink Floyd rock music can be reconstructed from brain activity that was recorded while patients listened to the song. Published August 15th in the open access journal PLOS Biology, the study used nonlinear modeling […]
Scanning the brain in unprecedented detail
By Charles Carter, 19/09/22 Innovators from UCL and European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) have developed a new 3D X-ray technique for scanning intact organs in unprecedented detail. The team hope the new approach will improve the understanding of health and disease by enabling analysis of organ damage at the macro and sub-cellular level, side by […]