Neurotronics.org

Are we humans – with our carbon-based neural net “wetware” brains – at a point in history when we might be able to imprint the circuitry of the human brain using transistors on a silicon chip?

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/brain-chip

For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It’s not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances—even in different menstrual cycles. But you can make it work better for you.

http://lifehacker.com/5585217/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-brain

Doctors believe that a burst of brain activity occurs just before death and this could account for vivid “spiritual” experiences reported by those who come back from the brink.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7785944/A-cascade-of-brain-activity-as-people-die-could-explain-near-death-experiences.html?

When you compare the brain’s detectives, neuroscientists, to other detectives, the neuroscientists seem to fall short in solving mysteries.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/5-brain-mysteries.htm

The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all

Personality types are linked with structural differences in the brain – which could explain why one child grows up to be impulsive and outgoing while another becomes diligent and introspective.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10566320

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

This is the most moving and intriguing TED talk that I’ve ever watched.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing.html

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

ScienceDaily (June 30, 2008) — The “La Mente Bilingüe” research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Basque Country analyses bilingual processing of language. The aim is to find out how the brain acquires and manages languages and to discover in what way languages being similar or different is influential in this process.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630093618.htm