Brain boosting: It’s not just grey matter that matters http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530090.600-brain-boosting-its-not-just-grey-matter-that-matters.html Learning involves changes to myelin sheaths, not just synapses
Posts Tagged ‘brain’
Sign in to read: Brain boosting: It’s not just grey matter that matters – life – 18 February 2015 – Control – New Scientist
March 8, 2015How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains
December 9, 2014How Exercise Can Boost Young #Brains
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/how-exercise-can-boost-the-childs-brain Running around & acting like a kid is, in fact, good for kids. Duhh!
The U.S. BRAIN Initiative Boldly Begins – IEEE Spectrum
September 1, 2014Technologies for Hacking the Brain – Scientific American
May 24, 2014The New Century of the Brain: Nice overview of some new #brain mapping technologies & the government’s big initiative
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/technologies-for-hacking-brain
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v310/n3/full/scientificamerican0314-38.html
Brain-Mapping Milestones – NYTimes.com
April 28, 2014Brain-Mapping Milestones: 1st mention of the BrainSpan.org project in
the Times! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/science/brain-mapping-milestones.html #Neuroscience & #Genomics
Protein interaction network of alternatively spliced isoforms from brain links genetic risk factors for autism
April 27, 2014Protein… #network of alternatively spliced isoforms from brain…: Half of the interactions from #splicing variants
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140411/ncomms4650/abs/ncomms4650.html
How the Freaky Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human Brain – Wired Science
February 18, 2014How the… Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human #Brain: Intelligent but with very different, decentralized wiring http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/how-the-freaky-octopus-can-help-us-understand-the-human-brain
(Intelligent enough to open childproof tops)
Cell – Trnp1 Regulates Expansion and Folding of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex by Control of Radial Glial Fate
November 30, 2013Trnp1 Regulates Expansion and Folding of the Mammalian Cerebral #Cortex: less in mice gives more human-like folds
http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413003498
Foody brain pics
September 3, 2012The Limits of Intelligence: Scientific American
April 16, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-limits-of-intelligence
log (brain mass) = .75 * log(body mass)
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