When you’re perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you’re doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! More »
Scientists don’t get their due. After all, they can do almost anything. Except, you know, eavesdrop on our conversations by reading our brainwaves. Oh… wait. Apparently, now, they can. More »
Want to add more wrinkles to that ol’ brain of yours? Stare at the coloured dots on the girl’s nose in the photo above for 30 seconds. Then look at a white surface (blank browser, mayhaps) and start blinking. You should see a non-negative image of the girl. WHAT. BRAIN. MELTING. WHAT. OHMYGOD. More »
If you are depressed, or schizophrenic or have Alzheimer’s, scientists say you probably have a shrunken hippocampus. The good news: a drug that just entered human trials promises to re-grow that part of the brain. More »
London is a crazy mixed-up city, navigation-wise. It’s so hard find your way around that when taxi-drivers learn to, they say they’ve Acquired The Knowledge. And now scientists say The Knowledge actually changes drivers’ brains. More »
New research suggests that electromagnetic stimulation may reverse the damage done by Alzheimer’s disease. More »
This video just blew my mind, kind of literally. I will never look at my own brain the same way again.
Iain McGilchrist talks about how so many of the left versus right brain arguments — for example that emotion and language are controlled by the left hemisphere and that the right hemisphere controls visual images and reason — have been disproven. More »
Using monkeys as test subjects, researchers from Duke University Medical centre are laying down the foundation for a new class of brain-controlled, touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs. More »
That time you stuck a fork in the electric socket as a youngster? Not only were you learning a valuable lesson about pain, but you may have also been firing up your brain, according to new research. More »
