neurobiology
17/01/2019 - 19:36
“I can trace everything I do now to computer games like Donkey Kong that I hacked in the 1980s,” Cerf tells ISRAEL21c. Now a 41-year-old... →
11/12/2017 - 18:23
As Mann dived into the topic of boredom, she found that it was actually “very interesting.” It’s certainly not pointless. Wijnand van... →
15/08/2017 - 19:08
This is the tyranny of sleep. Every animal on the planet is a junkie hooked on its restorative charms. Scientists have shown that if you... →
17/02/2017 - 15:57
One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, “I’ve got this awful pain just here.” She prodded her abdomen and made a face. “It feels... →
06/12/2016 - 12:41
"This is a really fundamental find—it's like the dark matter of memory," says Geoffrey Woodman, a cognitive neuroscientist at Vanderbilt... →
07/08/2016 - 13:30
These are global trends but, living in the US, it seems to me that there is something particularly American to them. We have a long... →
28/05/2016 - 13:17
“We focused on SLC6A4, which encodes the serotonin transporter, because we already know a good deal about the importance of this gene and... →
31/03/2016 - 15:00
Both Eagleman and Naber had their brain activity monitored via an electroencephalogram (EEG). The difference was stark. Eagleman’s brain... →
31/03/2016 - 14:30
There is also a deeper message laid bare within our futurist projections. Our notions about the emergence of intelligent machines expose... →
08/01/2016 - 14:59
Ansell and Co. gave participants a smartphone app that prompted them to record stressful experiences and small acts of kindness, like... →
22/09/2015 - 11:52
Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, who led the research, published earlier this year, has a name for this remarkable collaboration: a "... →
22/08/2015 - 13:15
The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, is engineered from adult human skin cells and is the most complete human brain model... →