By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
When I was a kid, I was constantly scolded by my mother for spending countless hours on my 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System. She thought reading or playing outside would be more beneficial for me than Duck Hunt or Super Mario Brothers. My mother could have […]
In the past couple months of maintaining the Brain Health Blog, I’ve been surprised at how frequently the press release for a scientific finding has little to do with the research that was done. Maybe the cynical among you already figured as much, but it struck me as a bit disconcerting.
For example, I read this […]
Serina Deen, who has a background in neuroscience research, is a 4th year medical student at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Here she describes how your brain waves could get involved in your gaming.
I remember back in my freshman year of college, sitting in a pitch black room the size of a closet, […]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Have you ever inexplicably and involuntarily yawned after someone else does the same? Well, researchers may have found the neural basis for intention and emotions, empathy in particular. Neurons become activated not only when one performs an action, but also when viewing it!
Why might mirror […]
A man who spent the last 6 years barely conscious and unable to speak or eat can now do both with the help of electrodes implanted in his brain. These electrodes provide electrical stimulation to a region of the brain called the thalamus, which is involved in motor control and communication between different parts of […]
A few hours of attention training may lead to changes in brain activity that reflect improvement in attention. Wake Forest researchers yesterday released preliminary results indicating that following a series of attention workouts, older adults (age 65-75) were better at paying attention to visual information while ignoring distracting auditory information. Further, after training, fMRI scans […]
