Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s …
Category Archives: Mind
Epilepsy, brain, research.
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell …
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 …
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 …
TED, atheists, censorship…
TED is supposed to be a platform to facilitate the organization of talks about interesting subjects by interesting people. But when Sheldrake decided …
Reality like Dreams…
A computer can decode the stuff of dreams. By comparing brain activity during sleep with activity patterns collected while study …
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 …
Learning, DSB, DNA…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental …
Synchronizing with the world…
Research on how anesthesia works on humans, shed new light on the patterns of human brain activity related to the …
Sleep & memories – A funny connection…
The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the …
