Biologie… How Your Brain Decides Without You 5 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 In a world full of ambiguity, we see what we want to see. Tom Vanderbilt | NAUTILUS Illustration by Tim O’Brien Princeton’s Palmer Field, 1951. An autumn classic matching the…
Bildung… How Your Brain Fills in the Blanks with Experience 8 Aug 20227 Aug 2022 Our neurocircuitry is profoundly shaped by a lifetime of learning. Chantel Prat | NAUTILUS Doggygraph / Shutterstock I remember all too well that day early in the pandemic when we…
Biologie… Wie das Gehirn unseren Geist erschafft 10 Nov 202110 Nov 2021 Hirnforscher wissen: Das menschliche Wesen ist ein ständig neu entstehendes Konstrukt. Gehirn, Körper und Umwelt fließen zusammen. Lisa Feldman Barrett | heise online (Bild: 3Dsculptor / Shutterstock.com) Lisa Feldman Barrett…
Fortschritt… „Totart“: Kann die Hirnforschung Lahme wieder gehen lassen? 9 Sept 20199 Sept 2019 In diesem Saal operieren die Roboter, Kommissarin Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) ermittelt gegen Prof. Bordauer (Sebastian Bezzel) Bild: SWR/Sabine Hackenberg Im neuen „Tatort“ verschwindet ein Querschnittsgelähmter und eine Ärztin wird ermordet.…
Fortschritt… Neuroscientists Hack Itching, Exposing a Mysterious Neural Circuit 18 Aug 201717 Aug 2017 A key to understanding why scratching an itch feels so good. By Michael Byrne | MOTHERBOARD Scratching an itch doesn't take a whole lot of brain horsepower. It's not automated…
Geschichte… Your Brain Can Resurrect ‚Forgotten’ Short-Term Memories 3 Dez 20162 Dez 2016 Day-to-day living can be such a struggle for people with short-term memory loss. But scientists have now found that memories are rarely completely lost—instead they’re just moved to the subconscious.…
Geschichte… It Took 1700 Hours to Map a Fly’s Brain 19 Sept 201618 Sept 2016 A team of researchers from Tokai University in Japan recently produced the first 3D model of a fruit fly’s neuronal network. The team’s work is an important step forward for…
Fortschritt… Scientists Made Mice That Are See-Through, Shrunken, and Glow in the Dark 23 Aug 201622 Aug 2016 Imagine being able to peer deep inside of a creature, without needing to dissect it first. If you were studying a specific organ or tumour, that would be incredibly useful—not…
Geschichte… New Imaging Study Shows How Schizophrenic Brains Regenerate 29 Mai 201628 Mai 2016 To say that cures are rarely discussed within the context of mental illness would be an understatement. The reality is much closer to never and this becomes even more true…
Evolution… Neuroscientists Hack the Brain’s Circuitry for Winning and Losing 1 Apr 201631 Mär 2016 We may be programmed in such ways as to predispose us toward "winning" or "losing," according to research published this week in Science by neuroscientists at the RIKEN Brain Science…
Bildung… Scientists Studied How Our Brains Would React to Teleportation 26 Feb 201625 Feb 2016 Teleportation turns out to be an easy thing to simulate, neurologically speaking. The rhythmic brain patterns that appear in real-world spatial navigation reappear as subjects navigate virtualized environments on a…
Ökonomie… Lab Grown Mini-Brains Could End Animal Testing (on Brains) 15 Feb 201614 Feb 2016 Each year, millions of animals around the world are used for laboratory testing. Animal advocacy groups such as PETA and the Human Society have been very vocal about the need…
Medien… How Do You Make a Memory? This Study Puts Us Closer to the Answer 2 Jul 20151 Jul 2015 Human memory—the encoding of information into our very brains—is a process at once fascinating and still pretty mysterious. In a study published Wednesday in study published Wednesday in Neuron, researchers…
Ökonomie… The Paralysed Man Who Can Control a Robotic Arm With His Thoughts 13 Jun 201512 Jun 2015 When Erik Sorto was 21, a gunshot wound left him paralysed from the neck down. Over ten years later, he was preparing smoothies for a room full of kids with…
Bildung… The Race to Map the Brain So We Can Upload It Into a Computer 12 Jun 201511 Jun 2015 It’s 2015, and we can’t even map a mouse brain, let alone a human one. “Nobody really knows how the brain is wired,” neuroscientist Shawn Mikula, who recently discovered a…
Ökonomie… Apocalypse Neuro: Why Our Brains Can’t Process the Gravest Threats to Humanity 11 Jun 201510 Jun 2015 Our brains are incredible little mushboxes; they are unfathomably complex, powerful organs that grant us motor skills, logic, abstract thought. Brains have bequeathed unto we humans just about every cognitive…
Christentum… Humanity’s long Search for the Soul in the Brain 9 Jun 20158 Jun 2015 The history of Western neuroscience may seem a dry topic to an outsider, a litany of impenetrable Latinisms and anatomical diagrams. It is, in fact, a series of fascinating battles…
Ökonomie… Neuromorphic Circuits Don’t Just Simulate the Brain, They Outrun It 14 Mai 201513 Mai 2015 Actually simulating a human brain is a long, long way off—much longer than many neuro-enthusiasts would like us to think. But that doesn't mean powerful, practical neuromorphic computing is quite…
Bildung… A Neuroscientist Explains Why We Look At Porn 12 Feb 201511 Feb 2015 David J. Linden, Ph.D. is a Professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind. By…
Fortschritt… Scientists Found a Way to Email Brain Waves 22 Aug 201421 Aug 2014 Researchers have successfully communicated words from one brain to another over the internet. By Jordan Pearson—MOTHERBOARD Brain wave-sensing technology, which utilizes electroencephalography-powered headsets, has already been demonstrated to do all kinds of…
Ökonomie… Shark Research Could Cure Cancer 19 Aug 201418 Aug 2014 They rarely get cancer. Their wounds heal much faster than humans’. Their unique skin makes for a low-drag glide through the water that engineers envy. Scientists say sharks have much…