Brain-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
Posts Tagged ‘neurosci’
Brain-Mapping Milestones – NYTimes.com
April 28, 2014How 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)
Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened – NYTimes.com
July 29, 2013RT @ilonummi: Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened – http://bit.ly/1e4YgK3 http://bit.ly/1e4YhgZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/science/false-memory-planted-in-a-mouse-brain-study-shows.html
Thoughts on O’Shea’s The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
December 23, 2012Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29
Football, dogfighting, and brain damage : The New Yorker
July 19, 2012Rather scary discussion of the buildup of tau protein in
ex-footballers. Tau usually marks the second
stage of Alzheimers, while the buildup of beta-amyloid marks the first.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain: Scientific American
July 14, 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)
Article: A human brain dissection – in pictures
March 30, 2012A human brain dissection – in pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/28/human-brain-dissection-in-pictures
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