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Wearable PET Scanner For Rats Enables Real-Time Monitoring of Awake, Moving...
A new type of brain scanner attaches to a rat's head, allowing neuroscientists to study the brains of fully awake, mobile lab animals for the first time. The RatCAP, for Rat Conscious Animal PET, is...
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Researchers Use Brain Scans to Translate Thoughts Into Words
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Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
fMRI NIMH Brain scans can hear our thoughts, make us learn by osmosis and even predict our actions. Now a new study claims that functional MRI scans can reliably judge a person's most basic appetites,...
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The Best Way to Measure Intelligence Could Be Brain Imaging
Global Brain Connectivity WUSTL Image/Michael Cole There are a lot of hurdles to accurately predicting intelligence, from the difficulty of defining exactly what it is to accurately understanding the...
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Karate Experts' Superhuman Punch Comes From a Unique Brain Structure
Karate WC Tampere 2006 Wikimedia Commons If you've seen the board-breaking power of a professional martial artist and thought it looked superhuman, don't worry: for a while now science couldn't fully...
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On DARPA's 2013 Wish List: Extreme Diving, Portable Brain Reading, And...
U.S. Navy Diver DARPA wants a new dive suit that automatically monitors the diver's physiology and adjusts his or her air mixture accordingly. U.S. Navy DARPA solicitation days are like Christmas...
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New Science Identifies Brain Damage In Living Football Players
The Fallen Junior Seau's suicide in 2012 heightened the controversy around head trauma in athletes. Colts receiver Austin Collie [above] received three game-ending concussions in 2010 before he was...
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DARPA Wants To Recruit Smarter Service Dogs By Scanning The Brains of Canine...
Special Ops Canine U.S. Army It's hard enough to find good people for a given job. Harder still: finding the right dog. The U.S. military employs and deploys canines in a variety of roles throughout...
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Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi...
Go To Jail Dreamstime Researchers at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico--a non-profit, partially government-funded neuroscience facility--have discovered a way to predict whether released...
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Scientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams
Sweet Dreams Sima DimitricWith just an fMRI, an algorithm, and the internet, researchers from Kyoto, Japan predicted with 60 percent accuracy what a person was dreaming about, Smithsonian magazine...
View ArticleHumans Can Feel Empathy Toward Robots
Humans feel bad when they see other humans being mistreated, but do we feel the same way about robots?A team of researchers tested that by being first sweet and then really, really cruel to a poor...
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Watching Your Brain Freak Out On A Scanner Calms You Down
Inside A Musician's Brain Sivu via YouTubeIn a quirky new experiment, researchers at Yale University found that simply showing people what their anxious brains look like was enough to help those...
View Article'NeuroKnitting' Turns Brain Scans Into Personalized Scarves
Have you ever felt your clothing just doesn't say enough about you? As in, you're willing to go to semi-obsessive lengths to show everyone your thoughts? Almost literally, your thoughts? Then perhaps...
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Why Neuromarketing Is A Neuroscam
EEG Petter Kallioinen via Wikimedia CommonsAs a rule, almost anything that involves the prefix neuro is probably a buzzword. Brains! They're the key to everything! Pretty pictures of brain scans or...
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How Brain Scans Can Lighten Sentences In Murder Cases
Go To Jail Dreamstime A prison escapee convicted of killing a vacationing couple in their 60s—for their trailer, according to a newspaper from the couple’s hometown—recently dodged the death penalty...
View ArticleNew Science Identifies Brain Damage In Living Football Players
Researchers at UCLA have announced a major finding that could save the lives of football players and other contact-sports athletes who've suffered countless traumatic brain…
View ArticleDARPA Wants To Recruit Smarter Service Dogs By Scanning The Brains of Canine...
It's hard enough to find good people for a given job. Harder still: finding the right dog. The U.S. military employs and deploys canines in a variety of roles throughout…
View ArticleStudy: Your Doctor Really Does Feel Your Pain
They say good health is its own reward, but your good health may be a reward for your doctor, too. When doctors felt they were helping relieve a patient's pain, their brain…
View ArticleBrain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi...
Researchers at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico--a non-profit, partially government-funded neuroscience facility--have discovered a way to predict whether released convicts will return to their...
View ArticleScientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams
With just an fMRI, an algorithm, and the internet, researchers from Kyoto, Japan predicted with 60 percent accuracy what a person was dreaming about, Smithsonian magazine…
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