Scientists find unique sound alleviates motion sickness
Researchers at Nagoya University discovered that a specific 100 Hz sound frequency can alleviate nausea and dizziness in motion sickness.
Calorie-free sweeteners can disrupt the brains appetite signals
A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that a common sugar substitute alters brain activity related to hunger and increases appetite, especially in people with obesity.
Your brain in the zone: A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain achieves a creative flow state
Researchers from Drexel University in the United States found that expertise and letting go are key to achieving creative flow, especially in jazz musicians.
Singing the science: Using karaoke to examine blushing
Researchers from the Netherlands and Italy are exploring the neural mechanisms behind blushing, using MRI scans to study the phenomenon in female adolescents.
Neuroscience of the entrepreneurial brain: Cognitive flexibility
Researchers from the University of Liège in Belgium explore the neural basis of cognitive flexibility in habitual entrepreneurs, revealing brain structure differences that enhance entrepreneurial success.
Evidence early, but emerging, that gamma rhythm stimulation can treat neurological disorders
From Picower Institute at MIT 08/01/24 A surprising MIT study published in Nature at the end of 2016 helped to spur interest in the possibility that light flickering at the frequency of a particular gamma-band brain rhythm could produce meaningful therapeutic effects for people with Alzheimer’s disease. In a new review paper in the Journal […]
Researchers identify new coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory
From Dartmouth College 03/01/24 Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled neuroscientists. In a new Dartmouth-led study, researchers identified a neural coding mechanism that allows the […]
Does a brain in a dish have moral rights?
From Cortical Labs 20/09/23 No longer limited to the realm of science fiction, bio-computing is here, so now is the time to start considering how to research and apply this technology responsibly, an international group of experts says. The inventors of DishBrain have partnered with bioethicists and medical researchers to map such a framework to […]
Discovery of new kind of brain cell shakes up neuroscience and AI
From University of Lausanne 07/09/23 Neuroscience is in great upheaval. The two major families of cells that make up the brain, neurons and glial cells, secretly hid a hybrid cell, halfway between these two categories. For as long as Neuroscience has existed, it has been recognized that the brain works primarily thanks to the neurons […]
Digitising smell: AI describes odor from molecules better than humans
From Monell Chemical Senses Center 03/09/23 A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships get more complex and perplexing. To address this question, a research team co-led by the Monell Chemical Senses Center and start-up Osmo, […]