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more about #brain more comments → Alfisted: Suddenly, I feel like having a nice pastrami. more » tande04: I'm going to go ahead and say that this job would suck. Was kinda interesting to watch for the first couple hours but got old fast. Could only imagi... more » Wburg: I don't see any brain? more » midwestkel: Reminds me of this more » tande04: I'm surprised they didn't do a more high tech approach. Do what they did for the visible man project and just take a high resolution picture of the t... more » superhappyfuntime: Slicing of the Frontal Lobe more » beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: why are the slices bunching up, shouldn't be a clean cut, and FLAT!? Aren't they fucking it up? more » Jacubious: I was pretty disturbed by this article as I usually am when I read things about people getting death sentences. I must say though, the comments really... more » ForestFire0: So the jury came to the same conclusion, but it took 9 hours longer, and that is a victory? "Well, you'll still be killed, but they thought about it ... more » Duckspwn: Wooo! Death penalty! This article had a happy ending. more » yogibimbi: interesting to know that forensics seem to understand the brain better than neurobiology does. fMRI so far is mostly empirical data, meaning, that in ... more » Canoehead: Strikes me as a darned good reason to kill him, since apparently his brain architecture will prevent rehabilitation. One would think that defense cou... more » Nelson: Still waiting for advances in dream-recording technology, and then using a combination of someone's dream and intent to convict people. When that happ... more » tomsomething: I don't see this as a gateway to guilt-sniffing robots. This is a medical image used to prove that someone's brain is broken and could not function co... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Pop a xanax. more » -
#brains
50 Hour Livestream of Patient H.M.'s Brain Being Sliced
Studying Henry Gustav Molaison, more commonly known as Patient H.M., and his memory impairments has revolutionized our understanding of human memory organization. Researchers will analyze his brain next, but first they're slicing it up in a 50 hour long livestream. More » -
#crime
How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
I know it's science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there's something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US. More » -
#ai
Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM's Cat Brain Simulation Bogus
The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a "PR stunt" by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it's all a "mass deception of the public." More » -
#robots
How Much Power Does It Take To Simulate The Human Brain?
Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new "Neurogrid" supercomputer might be able to do it on only 20 watts. More » -
#brainimaging
Inside The Mind Of An LSD User
In the name of medical research, scientists analyzed the brain activity of individuals who were in the middle of drug induced hallucinations. The conclusion is that no matter how wacky the trip, the brain activities are identical among subjects. More » -
#brainscanning
Brain Scans Will Soon Reveal Exactly What You're Thinking
You already know what's on my mind, but what if you could see exactly what I'm thinking about? Might not be long before you can, because there have been some minor successes in thought decoding technology. More » -
#science
Fiber Optic Cable In Your Skull Can Reprogram a Brain
Stanford scientists discover that by changing a mouse's neurons to respond to light, they could use fiber optic cables to influence the mouse to do certain things. The trick is to insert plant genes into the brain first. More » -
#health
Electrical Shocks to the Brain Slow Down Gamers, May Speed Up Parkinson's Patients
Researchers somehow found volunteers to willing accept electrical shocks while playing video games. Ooook. The study's mostly good news though: Small zaps to the brain might help Parkinson's patients. The bad news? They'd turn us into bad video game players. More » -
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#science
Playing Tetris Will Get You A More Efficient Brain
According to new research by neuroscientist Richard Haier, Tetris makes your brain more efficient, as it helps develop some parts of it. In fact, according to Haier, any "challenging visuospatial task" will affect it. More » -
#artificialbrain
Krang Rejoices: Artificial Brain Ten Years Away From Reality
Scientists are claiming that a functional, artificial brain is only a decade away. This prediction correlates with the above chart, according to which our current computing capabilities limit us to...simulated lizard brains. More » -
#neurosky
Neurosky Brain Gaming Headset Now Has Free SDK
Remember the Neurosky mind-gaming headset we tried earlier this year? The one that actually worked? It's getting a free SDK. More » -
#thisisyourbrain
Amazing DSI Brain Scanning Visualizes Your Mind's Inner Workings In 3D
What's that monkey thinking about when he's mushing down that banana or tossing feces at you? Well, you're looking at it—this is a map of where a macaque's thoughts live. It's made possible by new 3D visualization algorithms developed by neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston which render a brain's billions of individual neuron connections in full-color 3D, with each visible strand representing several tens of thousands of the too-small-to-image neural pathways. It's all done by simply applying new processing to existing MRI scan data, and thankfully, it works on human brains too. More » -
#fronkonsteen
Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs
A neurosurgery team at Osaka University is now installing brain-machine interfaces directly into patients' heads. They claim the invasive open-skull surgery allows control over robotic limbs with the mind more accurately. In fact, in trials with four test subjects, their method has more than 80% accuracy. More »
