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Smart Brain-Computer Interace Learns with the Brain

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2008-06-27 08:06:39 by Michael in Medgadget
...brain. At the University of Florida researchers have developed an algorithm that helps the interface learn from previous events, leading to better performance in subsequent ones. Until now, brain-machine interfaces have been designed as one-way conversations between the brain and a computer, with the brain doing all the talking and the...
 
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This Is Your Brain on Jazz

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2008-02-28 15:06:33 by Michael in Medgadget
...brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow In a report published Feb. 27 in Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE , the scientists from the Universitys School of Medicine and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders describe their curiosity about...
 
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MRI Used to Watch Brain Repair

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2008-03-31 22:48:08 by Michael in Medgadget
...brain using MRI and some nifty eye drops. In this report, Harvard researchers describe how they link a relatively common MRI probe (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles) to a short DNA sequence that binds to proteins in cells responsible for brain tissue repair (glia and astrocytes). Then, researchers used the eye drops on mice with...
 
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New Data Shows that Deep Brain Stimulation Useful for Severe, Treatment Resistant Depression and OCD

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2008-04-28 19:31:24 by Michael in Medgadget
...brain stimulation could become a useful treatment for a variety of drug resistant psychiatric disorders is not new to us or to our readers. To review, you can just take a look at many flashbacks at the end of this post. Now the news is that at the upcoming annual scientific meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS),...
 
Tags: depression, brain, treatment resistant depression, deep brain stimulation, treatment, ocd, data, anti depression, medtronic dbs system
 
 
 
 
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The Forward Thinking Brain

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2008-06-18 10:16:23 by Michael in Medgadget
...brain's prediction of what will happen an instant into the future. "The brain is generating its own version of the world, a 'forward model,' which allows you to know where you actually are in real time. It takes the delays out of the system," Andersen says The research in Andersen's laboratory is focused on understanding the neurobiological...
 
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The Robot And Its Biological Brain

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2008-08-14 08:52:33 by Michael in Medgadget
...brains and used the matrix to control a robot's movement, keeping it from hitting the wall The robot's biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells. This is then used to drive...
 
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Robot with Rat Brain!

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2008-08-19 06:33:27 by max in zedomax.com
...brain Well, heres one of the first signs of that, a robot controlled by rat brain The robots biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells. This is then used to drive the...
 
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Gadget Wednesday: Do You Know How Old Your Brain Is? [Must Haves]

2007-11-21 05:00:00 by Editor in Electronics Gadget BLog - Latest Gadget Reviews - Articles - Zimbio
 
...brain doesn't seem to function as well as it once did Just as our bodies need exercise to maintain health, Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima believes we need to "workout" our brains regularly also to keep it in shape and in optimal form. So, he worked with Nintendo to create Brain Age and Brain Age 2 - a series of quick, fun...
 
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St. Jude Begins Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression

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2008-02-08 08:00:01 by Michael in Medgadget
...brain stimulation for the treatment of depression in patients that have failed other available forms of therapy. Drs. Mayberg and Lozano conducted the first study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for depression in Toronto, Canada, in 2003 and published their findings in Neuron in March 2005. As reported in this journal article, imaging studies...
 
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