Mind Flex
Putting a ball through a hoop is no big deal, unless you’re using your brain to do it.
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City Life Is Bad For Your Brain
Many people find that city life is exhausting and now scientists know the reason. Here’s how urban living is actually detrimental to the human brain:
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Study Shows Brain Activity Related To Seeing Relatives
Do you have a positive or negative reaction when visiting your family for the holidays? A new study shows that seeing or spending time with your family can trigger activity in your brain that affects how you feel about them.
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Novelty Seekers Driven By Decreased Ability To Process Dopamine
For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year’s resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these individuals–labeled as novelty seekers by psychologists–face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year’s resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. The research reveals that novelty seekers have less of a particular type of dopamine receptor, which may lead them to seek out novel and exciting experiences–such as spending lavishly, taking risks and partying like there’s no tomorrow.
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How Would Cyborg Brains Work?
Have you ever wondered how cyborgs brains would work, well research scientists are taking us one step closer to figuring that out. Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal “smart” brain material.
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Why Men Are Hooked On Video Games
Scientists have found answer to the question that intrigued women for years: Why men are ‘hooked’ on video games? According to the researchers, the ‘passion’ stems from a deep-rooted urge to conquer.
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Smart Cars Are Getting Much Smarter Or At Least Safer
Well For Me They Need To To Have A Choice Of Two Other Messages That Either Flash “Attention Assist: Drink More Mountain Dew Or Do The Dew!”
We’ve heard of smart cars, but this is getting into a whole new dimension. Mercedes studied the brain waves of sleepy drivers, and matched those up with lackadaisical steering tendencies, resulting in a car that can sense if you’re spacing out.
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Thought of Money will Light Up Your Brain
Dreams of money can seriously affect your thinking
Like the dollar signs in the eyes of cartoon characters, thoughts of money light up visual areas of the brain, a study has found. An international team, led by California University, has found that thoughts of money light up visual areas of the brain, including a part of visual cortex known as “V1” which represents basic features such as edge orientation and color.
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Electronic “Sex Chip” For The Brain
Scientists are working on an electronic “sex chip” that will be able to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain.
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Brain Patterns Translated Into Images By Japanese Researchers
Science fiction movies have long been obsessed with the as yet unattained ability to project the thoughts of humans (dreams, intentions, etc.) onto a video screen. Now a group of Japanese researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab in Kyoto have brought us a lot closer to making that technology real.
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How The Brain Thinks About Crime And Punishment
Analysis Of the second smartest next to George Bush
In a pioneering, interdisciplinary study combining law and neuroscience, researchers at Vanderbilt University peered inside people’s minds to watch how the brain thinks about crime and punishment.
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Brain Cells That Are A Key To Learning Discovered
Pavlov’s Neurons
More than a century after Ivan Pavlov’s dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and animals learn from experience.
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