Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies - GallantLabUCB. Brain Stimulation May Induce the Human Will to Persevere - Wired Science. The salience network, highlighted here in two epilepsy patients, is thought to mediate our response to important internal or external signals, such as pain or the sound of a siren.
Image: Parvizi et al. Neuron 2013 One epilepsy patient reported a flushing in his chest and described a feeling of determinedness, like getting ready to drive through a storm. What Comes After Antibiotics? 5 Alternatives to Stop Superbugs. Young and his colleagues at Texas A&M aim to unleash bacteria's age-old nemeses called bacteriophages, or phages for short.
Phages are simply viruses that infect and kill bacteria. They are ubiquitous in nature and in our bodies—astonishingly, Young notes, more than 90 percent of the DNA found in us belongs to phages. All those phages are parasitizing the trillions of resident bacteria within us; those bacterial cells outnumber our "own" by about 10 to one. Phages do not cause human illness, but for any kind of bacterium, there are often dozens of phages that harry it. Astonishing Photographs Of Drugs Prove Substances Look Just Like They Feel. Have you ever wondered what ketamine, speed and Prozac really look like?
You may or may not be familiar with the sensory experience of the various legal and illegal substances, but we're pretty sure you've never sat down with a microscope and pored over the celestial images that are hiding inside within. Speed Enter German artist Sarah Schönfeld, who's performed a similar experiment in her project "All You Can Feel. "