Tag: brain
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Epilepsy, brain, research.
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, raising hope that a similar treatment might work in severe forms of human epilepsy. UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of…
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Blood barrier, brain barrier, mind barrier…
Scientists are trying to bypass the blood-brain barrier so as to deliver drugs directly into the brain. [1] The brain is totally cut-off from the rest of the body. My hand does not “know” there is a brain. Nor does my blood. Could it be that my brain does not “know” there is a mind…
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Where is what we “see”?
People think what we see is in our brains. Like a small camera obscura. But Sheldrake reminds us of the obvious: What we see is not in our brains but we see it outside of it. A simple idea that could trigger a simple “huh?” by the haste reader. Think about it though: Even if…
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Reality like Dreams…
A computer can decode the stuff of dreams. By comparing brain activity during sleep with activity patterns collected while study participants looked at certain objects, a computer learned to identify some contents of people’s unconscious reveries. [1] “It’s striking work” says cognitive psychologist Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in…
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I know the “involved” mechanism… (and other science jargon tricks)
Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal a new target for therapeutic interventions to reverse the devastating effects of memory loss. The BBSRC-funded research, led by scientists at the University…
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