The endeavor assumes that computers could manage billions of billions of cerebral connections. Alas, that’s not happening anytime soon.
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Uploading one’s mind to a computer in order to attain digital immortality has long been the fantasy of geeks and billionaires. So what’s stopping us?
Studying diverse languages gives us invaluable insights into human cognition but more become endangered every month.
Could the not-too-distant future hold “brain chip” technologies that we could all use to enhance our memories to the point of perfection? Not so fast: there are big benefits to forgetting.
A new study of the brain structure of schizophrenics has revealed an important clue that could help treat hallucinations.
A drug to treat loneliness may be on the cards. But would we want it?
Particular parts of an individual’s brain tend to work together on certain tasks. Researchers can look at these patterns of “functional connectivity” to predict traits – like the ability to pay attention.
The headlines The Telegraph: Alzheimer’s disease: Online brain training “improves daily lives of over-60s” Daily Mail: The quiz that makes over-60s better cooks: Computer brain games ‘stave off mental…
It’s time for neurons to share the glory. Gene activity isn’t just a background utility of the brain, but an integral part of its operation.
Typically, researchers pool a bunch of brain scans to figure out the average way brains handle certain tasks. Instead, could they pick out individual brain profiles from a stack of 126 people’s scans?
New technologies bring questions that have belonged to the abstract realm of philosophers into concrete focus. Why do medical interventions in the brain feel different than those elsewhere in the body?
Our bodies have a complex system to control food intake, driven by hormones. Hormone levels also change when we gain and lose weight.
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Put the kettle on and relax with a cuppa; your brain, heart and waistline will thank you.
Biology can only tell you so much about the workings of the brain. To understand how we think and remember things you need he help of a mathematician.
Science fiction can’t become science fact if neuroscientists are to carry out some daring surgery.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
New evidence shows going back to a problem after sleeping gives your brain a chance to process the information it needs to solve it.
By tampering with the machinery which allows aggressive cancer cells to adapt, we can disrupt their ecosystem.
Solitary is used as a punishment but it doesn’t make for better prisoners.
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