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A implant that trains your brain to stop tinnitus
2014-07-25 19:29:11| Extremetech
Is that ringing ears bad enough that you would implant a simulator in your neck just to be free of it? For thousands of Americans, the answer seems to be yes. A series of clinical trials for an implant made by company called Microtransponder has demonstrated that their new nerve cuff electrode device is up to the job. The question that remains is how does it work, exactly?
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Rising Temperatures Could Help Brain Eating Amoeba
2014-07-24 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Naegleria fowleri is a brain eating amoeba that earns itself national attention at least once a year after infecting an unsuspecting swimmer during the summer season. Now researchers are saying that with rising global temperatures, the prevalence of these heat-loving microbes could go up. The Naegleria fowleri-related death of a 9-year-old Kansas girl is serving as a harsh reminder about the dangers of infections of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). "We are very saddened...
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US scientists push ahead with memory-boosting brain implants, but we still have to crack the brains code first
2014-07-17 20:05:06| Extremetech
As the latest effort to build some kind of implantable "memory bridge" now takes form at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), we might ask -- can such a device actually work?
Scientists discover the on-off switch for human consciousness deep within the brain
2014-07-07 13:56:23| Extremetech
Researchers at GWU are reporting that they've discovered the human consciousness on-off switch, deep within the brain. When this specific region of the brain, called the claustrum, is electrically stimulated, consciousness appears to turn off completely. When the stimulation is removed, consciousness returns. This could have massive repercussions for people currently in a minimally conscious state (i.e. a coma), and for deciding once and for all which organisms are actually conscious. Are monkeys conscious? Cats and dogs? A fetus?
Seeing the inner workings of the brain made easier by new technique from Stanford
2014-06-20 12:46:07| Biotech - Topix.net
Last year Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, announced a new way of peering into a brain - removed from the body - that provided spectacular fly-through views of its inner connections.
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