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Science & Tech News tagged with Brain

Timewarp: How Your Brain Creates the Fourth Dimension - New Scientist
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, Timewarp, brain, fourth_dimension, time )

Jenny
- 37 days ago - newscientist.com
"Time: How your brain creates the fourth dimension is much weirder than we think it is."By understanding the mechanisms of our brain's clock, A team of scientists hope to learn ways of temporarily resetting its tick. This might improve our mental
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10 Big Differences Between Men's and Women's Brains
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, Brain, Health, Men, Women )

Jollygirl
- 164 days ago - mastersofhealthcare.com
Scientists have discovered that there are actually differences in the way women's and men's brains are structured and in the way they react to events and stimuli.
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'People-Person' Brain Area Found
Science & Tech  (tags: humans, news, study, society, brain, discovery, MRI )

Mimi
- 191 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News: Scientists say they have located the brain areas that may determine how sociable a person is.
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Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, brain, marijuana, humans )

Ingrid
- 219 days ago - sciencedaily.com
U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself.
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Britain's Oldest Human Brain Unearthed
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, ancient, discovery, history, humans, interesting, investigation, news, research, science, scientists, society, tech, technology, study, world, Iron Age, britain, brain )

SirRobert
- 349 days ago - cnn.com
Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age.
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Harnessing The Power Of The Brain
Science & Tech  (tags: thoughts, power, brain, computer interface, science, tech )


- 390 days ago - cbsnews.com
Scott Pelley Reports How Brain Computer Interface May Help The Paralyzed In The Future
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Does Music Have a More Powerful Effect on Memory Than Images, Words, or Smells?
Science & Tech  (tags: music, brain, memory )

Jean
- 462 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
Remember that great Stones' ballad you heard on your first date with that first great love? Well, despite music's importance to our lives, very little is known about the memories and emotions that are often evoked when hearing a piece of music from our pa
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Scientists Create Stem Cells for 10 Disorders
Science & Tech  (tags: stem cells, treatments, healing, Harvard, disease, heart, nerve, brain, scientists, science, disorders, genetic, study, research, humans, interesting, discovery, health, goodnews, health )

Mari
- 474 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.
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Changes in Gray Matter Induced By Learning--Revisited
Science & Tech  (tags: Neuroscience, brain, plasticity, gray matter, change, cortex, learning )

Francois
- 492 days ago - plosone.org
While traditional research has focussed on functional forms of neuroplasticity, current theoretically based concepts suggest that structural cortical plasticity in adult brains plays a crucial role in adaptation to environmental changes and disease.
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Single Brain Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think
Science & Tech  (tags: brain, science, research )

Michael
- 501 days ago - naturalnews.com
Stimulation of a single brain cell is enough to transmit sensations, Dutch and German researchers have discovered, and report in a study published in the journal Nature.
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Left Hemisphere Specialization for Oro-Facial Movements of Learned Vocal Signals By Captive Chimpanzees
Science & Tech  (tags: chimpanzee, brain, lateralization, speech, language, origin, culture, pan )

Francois
- 517 days ago - plosone.org
The left hemisphere of the human brain is dominant in the production of speech and signed language. Whether similar lateralization of function for communicative signal production is present in other primates remains a topic of considerable debate.
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The Colorful World of Synesthesia Why Some People Hear Colors or Taste Sounds
Science & Tech  (tags: investigation, mind, brain, humans, "cross-wiring" between areas of the brai, diffusion tensor imaging, neural pattern )

Jan
- 537 days ago - sciencenews.org
People with synesthesia experience a "blending" of their senses when they see, smell, taste, touch or hear. Such people have specially wired brains, so that when something stimulates one of the five senses, another sense also responds.
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Praise as Good as Cash to Brain: Study
Science & Tech  (tags: humans, interesting, study, science, brain )

Holly
- 580 days ago - reuters.com
Paying people a compliment appears to activate the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash, Japanese researchers said on Wednesday.
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The Hidden Talents of the Lowly Sea Cucumber
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, habitat, undersea creatures, Sea Cucumber, human, brain, diseases, health, medicine, interesting, medical technologies )

J.
- 606 days ago - popsci.com
Sea cucumbers have been considered both a culinary delicacy and a homeopathic panacea in Southeast Asia.Recently, scientists have found in the humble sea cuke an unlikely muse for some exciting new medical technologies.
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Growth Hormone Found to Have New Role in Development of Brain's Smell Center
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, study, discovery, humans, axon, brain, cell, chemical, chemoattractant, hormone, molecules, nerve, neurones, odour, olfactory, receptor )

J.
- 609 days ago - berkeley.edu
A Neuroscientist and his colleagues have now found that the hormone, insulin-like growth factor (IGF) plays a critical role in setting up the connections between chemical detectors in the nose and the brain's olfactory centers.
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