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Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

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Duration: 13:32
Updated: 26 Nov 2013

The human brain is puzzling -- it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense cerebral cortex. But: why? Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel puts on her detective's cap and leads us through this mystery. By making "brain soup," she arrives at a startling conclusion. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

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The Human Brain (HD full documentary)

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Duration: 93:50
Updated: 08 Dec 2013

The Human Brain (HD full documentary)

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The Human Brain +18 (educational purposes only) / Человеческий мозг видео

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Duration: 5:55
Updated: 25 Dec 2013

In this teaching video, Suzanne Stensaas, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah, demonstrates the properties and anatomy of an unfixed brain. WARNING: The video contains graphic images, a human brain from a recent autopsy. Background noise is unrelated to this brain or the deceased. There are two purposes for this video: 1) to stress the vulnerability of the brain to highlight the importance of wearing helmets, seat belts, and taking care of this very precious tissue, and 2) to use as a teaching aid for students who only have access to fixed tissue, models, and pictures.

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Human Anatomy Dissection 15 (part 1 of 2) Brain

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Duration: 13:03
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Cranial contents.

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How the human brain works

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Duration: 6:45
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

An animated tour around the human brain (commissioned for Brain Awareness Week)

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Human Brain And Quantum Physics

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Duration: 49:31
Updated: 05 Aug 2013

Human Brain And Quantum Physics ::: Credits to ATHENE'S.

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Dissecting Brains

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Duration: 7:07
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Martha Henson, 2012. Digital video (7 minutes) On Wednesdays at Hammersmith Hospital in London, a few recently preserved human brains are dissected according...

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Human brain and its parts - Biology

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Duration: 2:22
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

This is a biology video for grade 7-8th students about the human brain and its different parts which include fore brain, mid brain and the hind brain.

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A Game that Maps the Human Brain: Claire O'Connell at TEDxAtlanta

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Duration: 19:02
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

About This Talk Claire O'Connell and her colleagues at MIT have accelerated neurological research to map the human brain — painstaking work that involves map...

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01 - the great mysteries of the human brain

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Duration: 55:46
Updated: 03 Jun 2013

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Neurons How they work in the Human Brain

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Updated: 04 Aug 2013

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Mini Human "Brain" Grown In Lab

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Duration: 2:48
Updated: 31 Aug 2013

Scientists have made another huge stem cell breakthrough. This time growing a human brain tissue in a lab! Laci explains how this work might revolutionize treatment for currently untreatable conditions. Read More: Human 'Mini Brains' Grown From Stem Cells In Lab Dish http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/mini-brain-human-lab-dish_n_3831998.html?ir=Science "The first complete living model of the developing human brain has been created in a lab dish. Researchers grew human stem cells in an environment that encouraged them to form pea-size gobs of brain tissue, which developed into distinct brain tissues, including a cerebral cortex and retina." Tiny Brain Parts Teased from Stem Cells http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/tiny-brain-parts-teased-stem-cells-130828.htm "Ear, eye, liver, windpipe, bladder, and even a heart. The list of body parts grown from stem cells is getting longer and longer. Now add to it one of the most complex organs: the brain." Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12517.html "The complexity of the human brain has made it difficult to study many brain disorders in model organisms, highlighting the need for an in vitro model of human brain development." Wake Forest Physician Reports First Human Recipients of Laboratory-Grown Organs http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2006/Wake_Forest_Physician_Reports_First_Human_Recipients_of_Laboratory-Grown_Organs.htm "The first human recipients of laboratory-grown organs were reported today by Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In The Lancet, Atala describes long-term success in children and teenagers who received bladders grown from their own cells." Young Girl Receives Lifesaving Windpipe Transplant Made From Her Stem Cells http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/30/young-girl-undergoes-successful-windpipe-transplant-from-her-stem-cells/ "Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells." Lab-Grown 'Custom' Organs May Be Future of Medicine http://abcnews.go.com/Health/lab-grown-custom-organs-future-medicine/story?id=16631764&page;=2 "Custom-made organs from a patient's own tissues would solve this problem, obviating the need for strong immune-suppressing medications that come with significant side effects." Scientists grow human heart tissue using stem cells http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/scientists-grow-human-heart-tissue-stem-cells-article-1.1428089 "Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh turned human pluripotent stem cells into precursor heart cells, then used a mouse heart 'scaffold' to grow them into heart muscle. Researchers say the findings are a small step towards being able to manufacture transplant organs." Watch More: Trachea Transplant: http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-300-stem-cell-tracheal-transplant-saves-girl Regrowing Teeth: http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-327-why-cant-we-regrow-teeth Cold Vs. Warm Blood: http://testtube.com/stufftoblowyourmind/cold-warm-blood ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Anthony Carboni on Twitter http://twitter.com/acarboni Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 Trace Dominguez on Twitter http://twitter.com/trace501 DNews on Facebook http://facebook.com/dnews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com

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The Human Brain Project SP 9: Neuromorphic Computing Platform

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Updated: 08 Oct 2013

The HBP will design, implement and operate a Neuromorphic Computing Platform that allows non-expert neuroscientists and engineers to perform experiments with configurable Neuromorphic Computing Systems. The NCS will be hardware devices incorporating state-of-the-art electronic component and circuit technologies as well as new knowledge arising from other areas of HBP research (experimental neuroscience, theory, brain modelling). Custom hardware is being developed at locations in Heidelberg, Germany (the NM-PM system) and Manchester, United Kingdom (the NM-MC system). The platform will provide remote access to both NCS, software tools for their configuration, operation and the analysis of generated data as well as user support documentation, training workshops and a consulting service. Platform users will be able to study network implementations of their choice including simplified versions of brain models developed on the Brain Simulation Platform or generic circuit models based on theoretical work. Featuring Karlheinz Meier, Uni Heidelberg and Steve Furber, University of Manchester. This platform is highly integrated with Subproject 7: High performance computing.

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Human Brain - 10 Fascinating Facts

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Updated: 10 Jan 2014

Check out 10 amazing facts about the brain you may not know. The human brain is one of nature's greatest creations. Here are 10 incredible facts about the brain. Number 10- Information is constantly passing through the brain. The slowest speed at which thoughts pass through is 260 miles per hour . Number 9 -- The organ is strong enough to power a light bulb...literally. The brian produces 10-23 Watts of electricity while in a waking state. Number 8 - 100,000 miles of blood vessels are held in the human brain. That's enough to circle our planet four times. Number 7 -- Got a short attention span? Blame it on your brain. It needs rest, a change of thought or so-called scenery after about 90 minutes. The brain can simply not focus on one single thing for periods longer than an hour and a half without a break. Number 6 -- A break is one thing, but according to researchers multitasking is a no-no when it comes to optimal brain performance. Although the organ can switch from task to task effortlessly, doing multiple things at once causes it to short fuse in a way, making you far less efficient. Number 5 -- The human brain is made up of 75% water. Number 4 -- Every second, the organ processes over 100,000 chemical reactions. Number 3 -- There's a good reason why babies have such huge heads. When an infant reaches 9 months of age, the brain has already reached half of it adult size. 3-year-old toddler brains are 90 percent of the way there towards their grown up size. Number 2 -- All human brains start off the same way -- as female ones. As testosterone production doesn't start until two months after conception, brains don't become classified as male until then. Nature 1 -- While the brain can register pain thanks to its elaborate sensory network, the organ does not in fact contain any pain receptors. That means the brain itself can be touched, poked, even sliced without feeling an ounce of pain. Ironic isn't it?

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The Miracle in Human Brain

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Duration: 1:24
Updated: 10 Aug 2013

how your brain works, amazing connections between billions of neuron cells.

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Dog brain responds to calls just like human brain

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Updated: 20 Feb 2014

Full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25094 The brains of humans and dogs light up in the same place in response to vocal sounds, suggesting these processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor

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Human Brain Project Overview

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Duration: 7:26
Updated: 06 Jul 2013

We take a look at the £1 billion supercomputer that researchers hope will simulate the human brain. Read more: http://bit.ly/X946kx.

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Full Program: Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain

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Duration: 88:48
Updated: 08 Jan 2014

Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing speed, and programming, a functioning human brain can be replicated in silicon. Others disagree, arguing that central to the workings of the brain are inherently non-computational processes. Do we differ from complex computer algorithms? Are there essential features of the physical make-up and workings of a brain that will prevent us from creating a machine that thinks? And if we should succeed in constructing a computer that claims to be sentient, how would we know if it really is? This program is part of the Big Ideas Series at WorldScienceFestival.com.

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The Human Brain Project SP 9 Neuromorphic Computing Platform سيليكونية لخلايا عصبية المشروع 9

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Updated: 28 Feb 2014

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The Human Brain Project SP6: Brain Stimulation Platform

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Duration: 2:45
Updated: 07 Oct 2013

The Human Brain Project's sub-project six: Brain Simulation Project will build the platform that will make it possible to reconstruct and simulate models at different levels of description allowing experimentalists and theoreticians to choose the level of detail most appropriate to the questions they are asking and to the data and computing power available. The platform will be designed to support continuous integration of biological data and implementation of biological principles, ensuring that the models become steadily more accurate and detailed as the project proceeds. Tools developed for the platform will allow researchers to collaboratively design and run in silico experiments to further validate the models and perform experiments and manipulations impossible in the lab. The project will use these tools to reconstruct and validate first-draft models of different levels of brain organisation, in mice and in humans. The ultimate goal is to develop multi-scale (simple to complex), multi-level (genes to whole brain) models of the mouse and human brains, in which different brain areas are modelled at levels of detail appropriate to the state of current knowledge and data, the computational power available for simulation and the needs of researchers.

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CCP Games' Hilmar Petursson - "The Human Brain is the Platform" - D.I.C.E. Summit 2014

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Duration: 35:21
Updated: 09 Feb 2014

Hilmar will discuss how today's technology advances lead to the ascendance of the mind as the preeminent gaming platform. He treats the audience to a revealing examination of how perceptions of reality have changed over time, and how new technology blurs the lines between what we consider real today and what our minds will consider real tomorrow. Find more info about the D.I.C.E. Summit at the link: http://www.dicesummit.org

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The Human Brain Project: Future Medicine

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Duration: 2:03
Updated: 08 Oct 2013

Learn how The Human Brain Project is working to advance disease simulation in order to improve data analysis, diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

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The Human Brain Project: Future Neuroscience

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Duration: 2:35
Updated: 08 Oct 2013

The future of neuroscience lies in collaboration. The Human Brain Project aims to develop new simulations and brain models that will change the way researchers worldwide analyze and experiment with big data.

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A fire burns at a restaurant after an earthquake in Iquique, Chile, Tuesday, April 1, 2014.

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Chile earthquake: five dead, tsunami hits northern coast

Canberra Times

02 Apr 2014

Locals sit on the street following a tsunami alert after a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake. Photo. AFP. Chile earthquake. as it happened. Santiago. A major earthquake has struck off the coast of Chile, triggering a tsunami, causing landslides that blocked highways and leading to at least five deaths. The earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck at 8.46pm local time, and triggered a tsunami that hit the northern part of the country ... Photo ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)

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A man, one of the relatives of Chinese passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, prays near candles before a briefing with Malaysian officials at a hotel in Beijing, China, Monday, March 31, 2014.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Last Words: Government Backtracks, Offers Differing Report

The Inquisitr

31 Mar 2014

“We would like to confirm that the last conversation in the transcript between the air traffic controller and the cockpit is at 01.19 (Malaysian Time) and is ‘Good night Malaysian three seven zero,’” the Malaysia Transport Ministry said in a statement. The Malaysia authorities also backtracked on the identity of the person who spoke those last words from the deck of the Malaysia Airlines plane ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov climb the stairs in the Russian Ambassador's house in Paris, France, on March 30, 2014, before a meeting focused on Ukraine.

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Misreading Russia and Trying to Control Geography, Again

WorldNews.com

01 Apr 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Instead of being overly alarmed with Crimea's popular and democratic referendum to join Russia, or as some in the West would say Russia's military incursion into Ukraine, the real concern should be if the United States and western Europe will again misread Russian objectives ... Although the U.S ... Human rights abuses have been committed, including sectarian violence and atrocities ... 353 ... 296. ....(size: 5.8Kb)

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File - Hurricane Sandy passed to the west of Haiti October 25, 2012 causing heay rains and winds, flooding homes and overflowing rivers.

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UN warns over world’s food supplies amid climate change

South China Morning Post

31 Mar 2014

Climate change has already cut into global food supply and is fuelling wars and natural disasters, but governments are unprepared to protect those most at risk, according to a report from the UN’s climate science panel. The report is the first update in seven years from the UN’s international panel of experts, which is charged with producing the definitive account of climate change ... “It’s more relevant to the man on the street....(size: 5.2Kb)

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Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion's captain, Wing Comdr. Rob Shearer watches out of the window of his aircraft while searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, Monday, March 31, 2014.

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MH370: Missing plane search 'most challenging ever'

BBC News

01 Apr 2014

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the "most challenging" ever seen, the man responsible for co-ordinating the search from Australia says. Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston also said that the search for the plane could take weeks. The plane disappeared on 8 March as it was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 239 people ... Search efforts would take time, he said ... 8 March ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)

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Neuroscientists from TUT join the EU’s Human Brain Project (Tampere University of Technology)

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02 Apr 2014

02.04.2014 9.10 The EUR 1 billion Human Brain Project is one of the largest EU-funded initiatives ... The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations ... The Human Brain Project is coordinated by Professor Henry Markram from Switzerland ... Human Brain Project....(size: 3.4Kb)

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We're humans, not robots with 21 facial expressions

The Guardian

02 Apr 2014

However, this again undermines the ironically mindboggling workings of the brain. Speaking of primary colours, it may surprise many to know that the human eyes only have colour receptors for three different colours, but from this information, the brain can work out how to perceive an entire spectrum. Given that much of the human brain is devoted to face perception, six basic expressions seems ample for a diverse range....(size: 4.2Kb)

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World's first computational psychiatry centre opens in London

The Guardian

02 Apr 2014

Centre will use latest technology to gain insights into human cognition and learn how it becomes disrupted in disorders ... Backed by a five-year €5m (£4.1m) investment from the Max Planck Society and UCL, the centre, which is named after its funders and will be based in London and Berlin, will use powerful modern technology in an effort to create more detailed models than ever before of how the human brain works....(size: 3.7Kb)

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Marx may not be mistaken today

Business Day

02 Apr 2014

But it enormously increased the need for human eye-ear-brain-hand-mouth loops in both blue-collar and white-collar occupations ... But the real prices of the cybernetic control loops needed to keep the machines running properly did not, because every control loop required a human brain, and every human brain required a 15-year process of growth, education, and development....(size: 5.0Kb)

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Sapolsky: Hoping against hope: it’s a people thing

Richmond Times Dispatch

02 Apr 2014

The defining feature of human brains is the size and complexity of the cortex, which provides the underpinnings of rationality for our actions....(size: 0.7Kb)

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Top 10 books on memory

The Guardian

02 Apr 2014

Looking back … an image of the human brain ... You can specialise in short-term memory (memory traces that persist for a few seconds) or cast your net into memories that stretch back through an entire human ......(size: 1.0Kb)

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Prawns on Prozac – antidepressants threaten aquatic wildlife (University of Portsmouth)

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02 Apr 2014

"There is a staggering list of prescription drugs passed from humans to wastewater treatment plants and into receiving streams, estuaries, or oceans by direct consumption, metabolism, and excretion or by toilet flushing of old prescriptions ... Dr Ford said that just as anti-depressants affect hormones such as serotonin in the human brain, many biological functions within invertebrates are under the control of serotonin....(size: 3.3Kb)

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The Galápagos: A Natural History review

The Guardian

02 Apr 2014

The blue-footed booby ... According to Judith Schalansky's 2010 book Atlas of Remote Islands, he believed he could build a new map of the human brain. ....(size: 0.8Kb)

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Drugs 'threat to aquatic wildlife'

Belfast Telegraph

02 Apr 2014

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National Post

02 Apr 2014

Redefining autism. National Post ·. TORONTO - Four-year-old Adam Wolfond is comforted by shadows ... His parents noticed this shadow play as early as his first birthday party ... The trampoline has a similar calming effect. "I could never think about Adam losing his Adamness," Ms ... It is part of The Joy of Autism, Ms ... the notion that autism is one of many ways that human brains can work, and is therefore not something that should be eradicated ... ....(size: 8.9Kb)

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New Military Office Will Seek “The ability to link human brains to machines”

The People's Voice

01 Apr 2014

connecting humans to computers to designing entirely new ... Brain-steered Drones ... Brain....(size: 0.4Kb)

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Bioethicist delivers Research Days address (Binghamton University)

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01 Apr 2014

Obama's Brain Initiative to map the activity of neurons and the human brain project of the European Union to simulate the human brain ... In addition to the many studies Moreno uncovered for his research for Mind Wars, he spoke about drugs that can be used to modify brain, and therefore, human functioning abilities, as well as non-invasive brain imaging. ... • Human brain-to-brain interface studies....(size: 6.2Kb)

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'Mind-reading' technology can reconstruct faces from the viewer's brain

CNET

01 Apr 2014

Based on the idea that the human brain repeats activity when repeating thoughts, scientists have already found a method to -- and even stream in real time what ... However, researchers at Yale have just breached this barrier, at least as pertains to human faces ... The brain uses large areas to process information about human faces, and each brain operates differently....(size: 4.5Kb)

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