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

“…this latest from researchers at the Brain Science Institute (BSI) — Toyta Collaboration Center have what they claim is a system that’ll control the ride using brain waves analyzed every 125 milliseconds, which it boasts bests the competition by several seconds. Testers using the wheels and EEG cap system have achieved accuracy up to 95 percent…”

The teenage brain is an unfinished product, continuing to develop in spurts until about 25. During the brain’s growth spurts, the nerve endings grow rapidly, called blossoming. During that time, the cells that fire strengthen networks. The ones that don’t die back, called pruning.

http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2006/06/13/gentech/frameset1710052.shtml

I’ve definitely done this myself in the past. I believe it was an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues that contained the line “let the pain become part of you.”

Science is beginning to investigate and support the role of therapies such as biofeedback and meditation in pain control. The idea that the mind has power over the body may be especially useful to chronic pain patients who often find themselves without satisfactory medical treatments.

http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20189613_1,00.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

Kevin Lafferty is a smart, cautious, thoughtful scientist who doesn’t hate cats, but he has put forth a provocative theory that suggests that a clever cat parasite may alter human cultures on a massive scale.

http://a.abcnews.com/Technology/DyeHard/Story?id=2288095&page=1

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

A new imaging technique reveals previously hidden brain structures, including the central hub.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21042/page1/