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What are people saying? - Muse: the brain sensing headband. There's New Hope For Alzheimer's, Depression, And Other Brain Illnesses. Learning Music as a Kid Heads Off Adult Depression, Anxiety. UVM’s James Hudziak, also director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, called the new report "the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development.

Learning Music as a Kid Heads Off Adult Depression, Anxiety

" Using a database provided by the NIH’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development, the psychiatrists were able to look at the brain scans of 232 children ages 6 to 18. Using these scans the UVM team examined a known physical indicator of depression and anxiety in developing brains: the thickness of the brain’s outermost layer, e.g. the cortex. Varying cortical thickness turns out to be tied to all sorts of behavioral indicators, including aggression, attention, and “control issues.”

"Music is a critical component in my model," Hudziak said in a statement. Hudziak’s findings shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. The basic idea is that playing music is a singularly focused and challenging neuro-workout. The implication here is clear enough. This Man Uses Twitter To Augment His Damaged Memory. Thomas Dixon has no idea what he did yesterday.

This Man Uses Twitter To Augment His Damaged Memory

Sitting across from me at an outdoor cafe, he tries to jog his memory by doing what a lot of us do habitually: checking his iPhone. Specifically, he pulls up Twitter and starts scrolling through his own feed. "Ah right," he says. "I was talking to my friend Stephanie about our New Year's Eve plans. " On this drizzly Friday afternoon in downtown Philadelphia, nothing seems even remotely unusual about a guy checking his phone to look something up. But unlike you or I, Dixon isn't exercising a compulsive, unnecessary habit. You wouldn't guess from having a face-to-face conversation with Dixon that his brain is damaged. Four years ago, Dixon was out for a run near his parents' house when he was struck by a car and injured so badly that doctors weren't sure if he would survive.

"I'm always aware of what I'm talking about and who I'm with in the moment," Dixon says. "Sometimes if I have like an hour, I'll be like 'How's the last week been? '" Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment. Mumbai woman receives ‘telepathic message’ from France.

For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France.

Mumbai woman receives ‘telepathic message’ from France

The woman in Mumbai received the message from a person in France. Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person’s brain to another’s even, as in this case, if they are thousands of miles away. “It is kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical,” Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, told AFP by phone from Barcelona.

“We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain.” For the experiment, one person wearing a wireless, Internet-linked electroencephalogram or EEG would think a simple greeting, like “hola,” or “ciao.” A computer translated the words into digital binary code, presented by a series of 1s or 0s. Brain to brain communication successful - Scientists email "hola" and "ciao" MindRDR. The Wildly Ambitious Quest to Build a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton by 2014 - Wired Science. Harvard creates brain-to-brain interface, allows humans to control other animals with thoughts alone. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page.

Harvard creates brain-to-brain interface, allows humans to control other animals with thoughts alone

Terms of use. Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech. In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces).

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