Scientists trial "mind reading" computer

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Reprogramming the brain

Gabrielle Giffords suffers from a massive attack to her brain and physiology having been shot in the head. The human body is amazing in how it compensates for injuries, especially with the aid of modern medicine....

Left brain – right brain battle for attention

In my experience, when one body part fails, another tries to compensate when it can and that goes for eyes, ears, and kidneys for that matter. Wherever there are two of something, in my observation.From my book,...

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Playing Musical Instruments Improves Reading and Language Skills

Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading. Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in...

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Nap Boosts Brain Power When your boss tells you off for falling asleep on the job you can now tell them that in the long run it will boost efficiency! Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have...

Alcohol Might Help In Brain Injury Recovery

A new study conducts alcohol may help people survive trauma to the head, and should perhaps be considered as a treatment method for patients with brain injuries in the future. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, compared the outcome of patients who had been...

Obama to address Children vs WWII - Never let this happen again!

"Today, our President Obama has said he was going to address the Children of America.  There is one group of America's who are concerned that this amounts to an political indoctrination of young persons in v various stages of there intellectual development.  On...

How Does Your Brain Work?

" If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.If you see it the other way, you are using left brain.Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way.See if you can...

How to destroy America from within, for Dummies!

If primitive war tactic is to destroy the children of your enemy, then Americans will be attacked from within when 75 million students return to school in September, –on time for the next 9/11 anniversary.With this dramatic opening comment, I'm hoping that a case of...

Artificial brain '10 years away' - End of the human race?

" A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat...

Girl with half a brain develops 2-in-1 eye

The capacity for the human brain to adapt still causes amazement and this story when we delve behind the lurid headline is such an example. Born with only one hemisphere of a brain this girl's brain appears to...

Genes From Canines may help cure Brain Cancer

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that a gene...

Jackson to be buried without brain: Report

"Press Trust of India, Sunday July 5, 2009, London " " Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain in a private ceremony on Tuesday by his family. The pop star, 50, died after a suspected cardiac arrest on Tuesday but the circumstances around his death...

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