We’ve written about the high incidence of debilitating concussions related to sports like football and ice hockey on this blog before. We could easily write about other sports that can injure your head, like boxing or skiing. Many people debate what the best way to deal with sports-related brain injuries might be. One of the [...]
Tags: boxing and concussion, brain injury, concussion, football and concussion, hockey and concussion, sports-related brain injury
Posted June 30, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends
Daniel Tammet is a self-described high functioning autistic savant with a mastery of language. This incredibly talented and interesting man has synesthesia that affects his perception of language, numbers and colors, so that all three are deeply intertwined. His synesthesia allows him to perceive the world in a phenomenally interesting way. Daniel Tammet gave a [...]
Tags: autism, autistic savant, daniel tammet, high functioning autistic, perception, savant, synesthesia, Temple Grandin
Posted June 27, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Autism
I recently read an interesting article on CNN about all of the ways that spending too much time online can affect the brain. As a webmaster by trade, I certainly spend a lot of my days and nights on the internet. Is it all turning my brain to mush? Some interesting findings reported in the [...]
Tags: gray matter, human emotions, multitasking, online
Posted June 23, 2011 by MacLean Fitzgerald under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Neuroscience, Research studies
Researchers at the University of Manchester have created an interesting short film: it shows the brain losing consciousness under anesthesia. Working with a group of 20 subjects, the researchers took 100 scans per second to generate a “movie” of the brain, using a new brain recording strategy called fEITER (functional Electrical Impedance Tomography by Evoked Response.) While it’s [...]
Tags: anesthesia, brain and anesthesia, consciousness, propofol, unconscious, what happens during anesthesia
Posted June 15, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience
Someone very close to me is absolutely terrified of going to the dentist, so my interest was piqued when I saw a report about a German study on the varying effectiveness of treatments for dental anxiety. The study concluded that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is more effective in treating dental phobia than standardized hypnosis or general [...]
Tags: CBT, CBT for phobia, cognitive behavioral therapy, dental phobia
Posted June 6, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Odds and Ends, Research studies
I love to travel, and I somehow manage to squeeze in a lot more trips than most people I know. So when I see hard and fast research supporting the health benefits of vacation, it really piques my interest. I recently read a somewhat unscientific article that talked about why vacation is good for your [...]
Tags: adam galinsky, brain and vacation, david eagleman, Jonah Lehrer, travel, vacation, vacation and depression, vacation and health, william maddux
Posted June 2, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Odds and Ends, Research studies
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