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Lab-Grown Minibrains Show Activity Similar to Babies' Brains
Singularity Hub - 8 Sep 2019 18:00
Neurons are a collective bunch. Although each neuron receives, processes, and passes on information individually, the electrical spikes only make sense when melded together in waves of oscillating activity. Like an orche...
Deep magnet stimulation shown to improve symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder
Science Daily - 8 Sep 2019 20:44
Researchers have found that focusing powerful non-invasive magnet stimulation on a specific brain area can improve the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This opens the way to treat the large minority of su...
Study locates brain areas for understanding metaphors in healthy and schizophrenic people
Neuroscience News - 8 Sep 2019 23:42
Patients with schizophrenia show increased brain activity in central areas of the brain, but lower activity in the temporal sulcus when hearing metaphors.
What If There Were No Sharks?
Live Science - 8 Sep 2019 19:59
Scary portrayals of great whites in pop culture might lead some people to wonder if the world would be better off with no sharks at all.
How you live affects your sperm - and perhaps your future children too
New Scientist - 8 Sep 2019 14:00
Lifestyle choices from smoking to wearing tight underpants change men's sperm, and animal studies suggest these changes affect children's health and behaviour
Wild mountain gorillas enjoy playing in water just like we do
New Scientist - 8 Sep 2019 11:00
Captive mountain gorillas love playing in water, as a 2017 viral video demonstrated, and it turns out their wild counterparts also enjoy a good splash