Helium is God’s gift to humankind. It’s particularly fantastic for science and medicine and has allowed us to make an enormous number of fundamental advances. We use it for a whole vast array of things…
Each dream has its own brain scan ‘signature’.
mondi
You may have read last week that a team of researchers has developed, for the first time, a way to detect the contents of people’s dreams. But what can we glean from this research?
During the same week…
Building an accurate brain model is computationally demanding.
JamesJam
By Heath Pardoe, The New York University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
It’s been referred to, somewhat disparagingly, as blobology, but MRI technology has the potential to improve treatment for epilepsy – in part thanks to developments in computing.
Identifying where seizures…
Different parts of the brain do different things, but there’s more overlap than you might think.
Brain image from www.shutterstock.com
If I had been asked 15 years ago to write a short piece about what the different parts of the brain did, it would have been a fairly straightforward task. Not any more.
Over the last 15 years, the methods…
Brain scan technology is finding that some parts of the brain respond more strongly to colour than others.
Flickr/dpi
For more than 200 years, scientists have known the range of colours we can see means there must be three different types of light-responsive cells in our eyes.
These three types of cell, along with the…
The emerging field of neuromarketing exploits the gap between what we say and what we think.
Flickr/DierkSchaefer
How do we choose? Consumers imagine themselves as rational decision-makers, able to weigh up the relative costs and benefits of decisions to arrive at reasoned choices.
Yet, a growing body of research…
