This article shows that physicists and anesthesiologist have demonstrated a plausible mechanism for encoding synaptic memory in microtubules, major components of the structural cytoskeletion within neurons.
link : http://in.news.yahoo.com/brain-memory-code-cracked-085514436.html
Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.”. They address an increasingly wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. TED and Cognitive Science has been opened. Even though there are now a few videos in the session, it will be more and more videos posted.
A project called See Through 3D Desktop is introduced in this aricle. Jin-ha.Lee, a member of the Media laboratory in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been involved in this project for 3 months as an internship in Microsoft Research and he introduces his project and his colleague through a youtube video in this article.
http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20120229103035
This report appears that Parkinson’s drugs can become a new treatment for brain injuries. Doctors have proved the result of the treatment and no adverse effects to patient on the drug.
This is a Korean article in the Science Times. Through this development, it would be possible to diagnose diseases such as epilepsy, seizure.
In this article, scientists investigated how the human brain activate to the sounds with distinct frequencies. This finding can potentially lead to the development of the automated brain-to-speech based communication system.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120206000555
Mapping the Psychedelic Brain
by Greg Miller on 23 January 2012, 5:07 PM, Science.
The finding that psilocybin inhibits the default mode network could help explain the surreal experiences the drug causes.
link : http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/mapping-the-psychedelic-brain.html?ref=hp
Chou et al., Am. J. Neuroradiol. 2011
Reproducibility between sessions and subjects via longitudinal study of fMRI data
http://lacontelab.org/3dsvm.html
supporting SVM-based regression, multiclass classification, and the use of non-linear kernels with a real-time capability (coming) in the AFNI software toolbox (http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/)