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[News] Brain-Mapping Milestones

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/science/brain-mapping-milestones.html?_r=0

The one year has been passed since Obama, President of US, announced the Brain Initiative.

Connectome of mouse and fatal brain has been revealed in a one year. In this news, how the brain mapping is developed in one year and why the brain mapping is on the way of milestones.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/science/brain-mapping-milestones.html?_r=0

[News] How Yoga Changes the Brain

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/

Yoga is one of the way to make our mental calm or relieve. This yoga came out that it can change the brain volumes.

The somatosensory cortex, superior parietal cortex is enlarged in the brain of yogis. Moreover, the hippocampus which has the role of diminishing the stress also have the large volume.

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Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/

[Article] Movies synchronize brains: Brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people

When we watch a movie, our brains activate immediately in a similar way to brains of other people. 

Researchers at Aalto university in Finland have succeeded in developing a method fast enough to observe immediate changes in the function of the brain even when watching a movie.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140407090615.htm

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Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140407090615.htm

Original journal paper here:  http://bit.ly/1sw0v34

[Article] Scientists Create an Unprecedented Map of the Developing Human Brain

Scientist at Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle reported the most precise maps of the human fatal brain based on gene activity. More detailed information can be found at the following link: 

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/scientists-map-developing-human-brain/#disqus_thread

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/scientists-map-developing-human-brain/#disqus_thread

[News] Lost sleep leads to loss of brain cells, study suggests

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26630647

We have already known the importance of the sleep. In addition to our background knowledge, there is some scientific evidence.

According to the paper published in journal of neuroscience, the mice which the sleep is deprived has less brain cell.

Even though this result is from the mice, human can have similar phenomenon. Moreover, the mental disorder or mood depression will be able to be studied with sleep deprival.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26630647

[News] New evidence confirms link between IQ and brain cortex

Many people wonder the relation between IQ and brain. There are some evidence which can explain the link between IQ and brain cortex.

To jump to the conclusion, the thickness of brain cortex is associated with the IQ. The more the thickness of cortex, the higher IQ is.

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Read more: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/new-evidence-confirms-link-between-iq-and-brain-cortex/

[News] Equations are art inside a mathematician's brain

http://www.nature.com/news/equations-are-art-inside-a-mathematician-s-brain-1.14825

What is the definition of the beauty? The neuroscientist have found that the mathematician’s brain which is involved to feel the beauty activates to the fascinated equation such as Euler’s formula. This activated region is A1 field of the medial orbitofrontal cortex. Orbitofrontal cortex is known for playing a role of response to visual and musical beauty.

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Read More: http://www.nature.com/news/equations-are-art-inside-a-mathematician-s-brain-1.14825

 

[NEWS] This is your brain on jazz: Study shows how brains see music as langugage

Could we communicate without language? It is probably yes. 

Recent research  showed that brain’s language regions (i.e., syntactic) were activated when jazz musician improvise with another musician. Interestingly, however, brain regions related with semantic were deactivate during the improvisation. Based on these results, author said that  “Semantics has more to do with the meaning of words. So, if music has semantics, it’s not processed in the way that is traditionally used for language.”

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Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/this-is-your-brain-on-jazz-study-shows-how-brains-see-music-as-language-1.1694667#ixzz2ved5z22w

[News] What's best: A man's brain or a woman's brain?

Power Struggle Between a Man and a Woman

There is a book named ‘Men are from Mars and women are from Venus’.

The neuroscientist have revealed that this theory doesn’t have any scientific evidence to prove differences between men and women. The neuroscience expert Gina Rippon, a professor at the ashton University in Birmingham, Britain, said that our brain is changed by the social role which makes us play as the one of the social society. Additionally, as the brain is muscle, it can be exercised in accordance with duty which is required to do.

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Read more: http://www.india.com/whatever/whats-best-a-mans-brain-or-a-womans-brain-21107/