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Newly Discovered EEG Rhythm Related to Texting, or Cell Phone Artifact?
Texting Zombie (by Ian Aberle)Contemporary consumers of science infotainment “need” to understand that the brain responds to modern technology in an unprecedented and potentially sinister way. Or at...
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Professor Richard Frackowiak on Retirement (and the Human Brain Project)
A neuroimaging pioneer, distinguished Professor Richard Frackowiak, has come out in favor of retirement:I retired aged 65 – I am known for being very pro-retirement. Older scientists should advise, if...
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A New Twist on Some Old Brain Myths
1. We only use 4 to 5% of our brains.The usual ten percent myth is wrong, according to Brain Vizion. We have even more untapped potential waiting to be unlocked!Brain is the most complex organ in the...
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Clinical Trial for Alzheimer's Disease - Is LMTX Ineffective or Unprecedented?
AustrianTribune.comNew ScientistSo which is it? Ineffective or unprecedented?TauRx Alzheimer's Drug LMTX Fails in Large Study Although Some Benefit SeenWednesday, 27 Jul 2016 | 11:23 AM ET TauRx...
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Scientific Study Shows Mediums Are Wrong 46.2% of the Time
Not a very good showing, eh?Here's our latest study on mediumship: "Prediction of Mortality Based on Facial Characteristics". Available here: https://t.co/jVMHmF07Dj— Dean Radin (@DeanRadin) May 21,...
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Healing Prayer and the Brain: Not a Match Made in Heaven
Activity of the medial prefrontal cortex after psycho-spiritual healing (Baldwin et al., 2016).Everything we do and feel and experience changes the brain. Psychotherapy, juggling, taxi driving,...
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Music from Your Brain
The journal Brain has a new review on the history of converting the electroencephalogram (EEG) into sound (Lutters & Koehler, 2016). The translation of data into sound, known as sonification, has...
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Pain, Synesthesia, Aging, The Dress, and more
Vote for your favorites in the 2016Brain Awareness Video Contest!You can submit up to two votes for The People's Choice Award. You don't need to be a member of the Society for Neuroscience.Deadline:...
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The Neural Lace Tour
Stevie Nicks and Elon Musk— finally together in this stunning collection...ElonYou have the limbic system, the cortex and a digital layer above the cortex that could work well and symbiotically with...
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Self-Appointed Destructive Critic
by @bahniks - click on image for a larger viewBy now, those of you familiar with the “methodological terrorism” controversy (PDF) are probably sick of it. I won't go into any detail, other than to say...
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Update on Indie Neuroblogs
Independent Neuroblogs, a combined aggregate feed for non-network Neuroscience Blogs, was started on FriendFeed in response to the proliferation of blog networks in 2010. The associated Twitter account...
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Haunting Delusions of Identity
Bugs Bunny in Hyde and Hare (1955)Delusional misidentification syndromes have fascinated filmmakers and psychiatrists alike. Afflicted individuals suffer under the false belief that persons or things...
View ArticleHow did Gall Identify his 27 Faculties?
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), a founding father of phrenology Phrenology was the pseudoscience of identifying a person's character and mental abilities on the basis of skull morphology (“bumps on the...
View ArticleAirplane Headache II: The Sequel
Airline travel during the holidays is one big headache. But for some people, “airplane headache” is a truly painful experience. The headache occurs during take-off and landing, is unique to plane...
View Article19th Century DIY Brain Stimulation
Fig. 4 (Wexler, 2016). Lindstrom's Electro-Medical Apparatus (ca. 1895), courtesy of the Bakken. Think the do-it-yourself transcranial direct current stimulation movement (DIY tDCS) is a...
View ArticleBad news for DARPA's RAM program: Electrical Stimulation of Entorhinal Region...
The neural machinery that forms new memories is fragile and vulnerable to insults arising from brain injuries, cerebral anoxia, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Unlike language,...
View ArticlePenn's Restoring Active Memory dataset freely available
Image from an earlier DARPA news story Restoring Active Memory (RAM) is a DARPA research program that aims to enhance memory in military personnel who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. The goal...
View ArticleNeuroscience Can't Heal a Divided Nation
Brain activation during challenges to political vs. non-political beliefs (Figure modified from Kaplan et al., 2016). Lately I've been despairing about the state of America. I'm not sure how denying...
View ArticleWhy Do Political Figures Lie So Blatantly?
Are They Pathological Liars? Narcissists? Psychopaths? “Masterful Manipulators”? Trump Spokesman’s Lecture on Media Accuracy Is Peppered With Lies Nearly all American politicians lie, but few as...
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