The Neuroscience of PainJuly 5, 2018 |
Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety
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Can Zapping People’s Brains Reduce Violence?July 3, 2018 |
Controversial study sees potential. The study participants read short accounts of violent behavior: In one, a man smashed a beer bottle over someone’s head; in another, an assailant raped an acquaintance
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Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking past a drug deal on your block or a beating at your school. For kids living in picket-fence suburbia, these experiences might be rare. But for their peers in urban poverty, they are all too commonplace
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Neurons Made From Blood CellsJune 8, 2018 |
A new tool for understanding brain diseases. Marius Wernig writes, “Our team at Stanford University has just figured out the recipe for converting blood cells from adults directly into nerve cells, or neurons. You may be wondering why anyone would want to convert blood into brain cells.”
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A visit to a facility in Guangdong province, where researchers are tinkering with monkey brains in order to understand the most severe forms of autism. With comments from our Jeffrey Kahn
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My Patient’s SmileMay 16, 2018 |
“Dad, hold still.” As we entered the hospital room that morning, our patient’s daughter was attempting to give him a shave. He was bed-bound after his operation and had grown a salt-and-pepper stubble
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What’s Wrong With Growing Blobs of Brain Tissue?April 26, 2018 |
Last week, Rusty Gage and colleagues at the Salk Institute announced that they had successfully transplanted lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue into mice. Gage’s team grew the blobs, known as brain organoids, from human stem cells
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Researchers Are Keeping Pig Brains Alive Outside the BodyApril 25, 2018 |
If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber
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