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brain
| How the brain is and isn't like a muscle |
 Use it or lose it, they say. The saying holds not only for muscle fitness, but also for the brain. The Romans already knew that 'mens sana in corpore sano' and today we know that both physical and mental fitness, exercis...[more] |
| brain default network spontaneity behavior |
| Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 - 13:20:45 |
| Noise in the brain? |
| I was recently alerted to a group of theoretical publications which deal with the issue of apparent 'noise' in neuronal populations. The Nature Reviews Neuroscience article "...[more] |
| brain noise variability neuroscience |
| Posted on Friday 08 May 2009 - 04:28:42 |
| Tomorrow social scientist Huisken will attack neuroscience in Berlin |
| As previously reported, Prof. Dr. Freerk Huisken (Wikipedia) professor emeritus of the University of Bremen, will give a talk here in Berlin tomorrow. He was invited by the "Sozialreferat" of the AStA FU, the students' g...[more] |
| Huisken Brain free will talk social science |
| Posted on Monday 14 January 2008 - 08:53:04 |
| Mice on drugs |
| Have you ever wondered what happens in your brain when you take drugs? The University of Utah has put up a fantastic Flash animation of mice at a party and you can see all the different drugs and what they do to the tran...[more] |
| drugs brain mouse neuroscience transmitter |
| Posted on Thursday 03 April 2008 - 03:37:49 |
| Insect minds for human minds |
| I just found this book chapter by our Professor Emeritus Randolf Menzel on Scribd and thought I should share it. It's a neat overview of how insects in general and honeybees in particular can help us solve some of the my...[more] |
| insects brain Menzel honeybee |
| Posted on Monday 26 January 2009 - 03:19:37 |
| Watching fly brains as they think |
| My colleague Jean-Rène Martin (we spent some years in the Heisenberg lab in Würzburg) and his co-workers at the CNRS in France have developed a new method for imaging activity in the fly brain (Drosophila). The researc...[more] |
| imaging drosophila brain spontaneous activity |
| Posted on Tuesday 17 April 2007 - 08:52:34 |
| ...and now for some not so random video on the science of spontaneity |
| This is talk 11 (of 31) at the Conference on Brain Network Dynamics held at the University of California at Berkeley on January 26-27, 2007. Speaker is Marcus E. Raichle, Departments of Radiology, Neurology, and Anatomy ...[more] |
| spontaneous brain activity spontaneity brain fMRI |
| Posted on Friday 11 January 2008 - 04:26:39 |
| Jewel Wasps manipulate specific brain centers to turn their prey into zombies |
| Jewel Wasps (Ampulex compressa) are amazing creatures and their form of parental care has received quite some attention not only by scientists but also from the general media, and rightfully so. This parasitoid wasp se...[more] |
| wasp actions spontaneous brain cockroach zombie |
| Posted on Wednesday 14 April 2010 - 05:07:06 |
| Video at SciVee |
| I've just uploaded a video to a new site which is being developed with support from The Public Library of Science (PLoS), The National Science Foundation (NSF) and The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC): SciVee. The vi...[more] |
| video SciVee neuroscience brain drosophila spontaneous behavior |
| Posted on Wednesday 22 August 2007 - 10:12:13 |
| "Dark Energy" in the brain accounts for human behavioral variability |
| For the last year or so there's been much talk about the fact that the brain apparently spends up to 99% of its energy on apparently useless, task-unrelated activity. Nobody knew what these activity fluctuations were goo...[more] |
| spontaneous activity output/input behavior dark energy brain fMRI Raichle humans |
| Posted on Friday 05 October 2007 - 10:11:24 |
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