Counting = science
I had to share this excerpt from a NYTimes article on boredom I read this morning: While attending lectures on dementia, the doctors, Kenneth Rockwood, David B. Hogan and Christopher J. Patterson, kept...
View ArticleRobots with a brain
Neurophilosophy (and Engadget) have some nice coverage of a cool new development – a robot with a purely-biological brain. The team (the Cybernetics Intelligence Research Group at the University of...
View ArticleNeuroimaging and Lie Detection
You’ve been falsely accused of a crime – a crime for which you could receive a life sentence if convicted. The hard evidence is shaky at best. The prosecution comes to you with a new idea: attach 32...
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Neurotechnica Review: Body Worlds 2 & The Brain, Our Three-Pound Gem
Having been a huge fan of the first Houston exhibition, I was excited to learn that Body Worlds would be returning this year. This time, it’s called “Body Worlds 2 & The Brain, Our Three-Pound...
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Vitamin B12 – it does a nervous system good
This evening I came across an interesting article in the New York Times about the neurological risks of a vitamin B12 deficiency. A number of recent studies seem to link a B12 deficiency with...
View ArticleNeurotechnica is on Nature Blogs
As of this morning, NeuroTechnica is now listed on Nature Blogs, a pretty incredible science blog aggregator, very similar to the one I proposed creating in a previous post. The main difference...
View ArticleCracked tackles neuroscience
I was browsing Digg today when I happened upon this Cracked article which talks about different illusions in neuroscience and does a pretty decent job explaining them in a humorous, mostly-accurate...
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Now you see it, now you don’t
Being exposed to popular media and fiction about science, we’ve all heard the term ‘brain waves’, loosely related to the frequencies of electrical oscillations in the brain detected at the scalp using...
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View your OASIS itinerary for SFN on your mobile device
For all those who are organized enough to have an itinerary planned out for SFN next week using the online Neuroscience Meeting Planner (a rather archaic tool that is only marginally useful, linked...
View ArticleSFN 2009 – so much to see
I apologize for my lack of updates lately. It turns out that trying to actively learn things and socially interact with other scientists while also reporting on new findings, etc, is extremely...
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