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Official: Obama to announce brain mapping project

| Associated Press
Obama Human Brain

The new project is aimed at tracking activity down to the individual cell and the tiny details of cell connections

Usher's 11 year old son brain dead after jet ski accident - TMZ

| InternAdmin
Usher

Child has not experienced any brain activity since he was admitted to the hospital

Baffling: Boy born without a cerebellum - AOL News

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‘He’s happy. We call him the Little Gremlin. He loves to play tricks on people’

Teenage brain development could explain bullying, study says - Newsweek

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Recent studies suggest that teenage brain wiring may be the root cause of teen bullying and carelessnes

Love conquers all, including pain - Time

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Stanford researcher Dr. Sean Mackey concludes that being in love can dull pain perception in a different way than painkillers do

Overuse of digital devices lead to possible brain fatigue - NYT

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When people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas

New microchip 'listens' to mind - Popular Science

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An updated version of a neurochip can monitor brain cells’ communications at the clearest resolution yet, according to scientists in Canada

Vet snub shocks families - Daily Beast

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Last month a brain and trauma center for vets was opened in Bethesda, but Washington hardly seemed to notice

Brain freezer claims secret of eternal life - AFP

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A company in Russia lets clients freeze their remains in hope that future technology will bring them back to life

Fish for brains - UPI

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A U.S. scientist says he’s found a new role for zebrafish in human studies — as an animal model for an enzyme found in people’s brains.

Magnet placed near brain alters judgment - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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Applying a magnetic field to a particular region of the brain can impact a person’s judgment of right from wrong

Man eats child's brain to cure fits - The Sun

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A Chinese cannibal is alleged to have killed an 11-year-old boy and eaten his brain in order to cure his epilepsy

Scientists use brain scans to eavesdrop on thoughts - Guardian

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Brain scans revealed with reasonable accuracy which short film clip volunteers were thinking about. This is the first time brain imaging has been used to decipher such complex thoughts

Brain control interfaces become a reality

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Researchers are making real progress in letting people control a PC simply by thinking, and the first crop of consumer Brain Control Interface (BCI) headsets has arrived

The quest to read the human mind - Popular Science

| Jeff Winkler (admin)

Mind-reading machines could help doctors understand the inner worlds of people with hallucinations, cognitive disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder and other impairment. How close are we to making the science fiction dream a reality?

Take a coffee break

| AJ

A coffee break after an important meeting or class may be just the thing your brain needs to digest new information and improve memory

Jogging your memory

| AJ

Running may do more than improve your cardiovascular fitness and overall physique. Running might actually make you smarter