Rewriting The Past: Scientists Have Figured Out How To Turn Bad Memories Into Positive Ones During Sleep
Imagine being able to erase bad memories or traumatic flashbacks – it could make a huge difference in treating a wide range of mental health issues.
Video Of Computer Reading Paralysed Man’s Thoughts Is Just Incredible
Professor Edward Chang said that this is the first successful demonstration of direct decoding of full words from the brain activity of someone who is paralysed and cannot speak.
Living Under Lockdown Has Rewired Your Brain [Video]
Researchers are still attempting to understand exactly what impact lockdowns have had on us, but we do know some things for sure.
Largest COVID-19 Survivor Study Shows A Third Suffer ‘Brain Disease’
We continue to learn about COVID-19 and its long-lingering effects, with a recent study showing just how prevalent neurological and psychological symptoms really are.
Do Your Looks Determine Your Personality?
Studies have shown that physical attributes can affect how your personality develops, with some interesting theories as to why.
Paralysed People Are Sending Text Messages From Their Brains [Video]
A new device has been proven to help people with motor neuron diseases navigate the internet in unprecedented ways.
Oh, The Shame: Why Left-Handed People Are Left Out Of Neuroscience Studies
Lefties are routinely rejected for brain research studies, and they’re not happy about it.
Tetraplegic Man Walks With Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton [Video]
Technology that links a machine to the brain has made it possible for this tetraplegic man to walk again.
They’ve Worked Out How To Bring Dead Brains Back To Life
Do you really want to live forever? Science may have found a way to keep brains alive long after you die, but it does come with drawbacks.
Thursday Morning Spice
Brain implant lets paralysed man use hand. Guptas face JSE delisting. Stairway to Heaven copyright trial. Global steel demand falls. Bill Gates will stop polio by next year. Napster founder to annihilate cancer. Novak Djokovic shock. Austria to seize Hitler’s birth home. Will Smith had loaded gun the night he was killed. Rihanna equals Beatles record. New York City bank heist. Meet the celeb sex tape broker.
This Online Test Will See If You Have A Photographic Memory
Are you some kind of whizz-kid and you just don’t know it yet? Time to shine, because here’s how you can take your memory for a stroll.
Hang On – These Scientists Sent Messages From One Brain To Another
Neuroscientists have sent a message from one brain to another using nothing but machinery to read their electromagnetic pulses.
High Cellphone Use = Higher Risk Of Brain Cancer
Radio frequency fields emitted via mobile phones are carcinogenic. You ever heard that before? It’s something that most of you are probably vaguely aware of . At some point in your life you would have definitely heard that talking on your cell phone too much might give you brain cancer. However, like other nasty, illness-type […]
Incredible Brain-Scans Reveal Men And Women’s Brains ARE Wired Differently
Men have known it for years, women have known it for years, but finally, we have incorrigible proof. A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nearly 1,000 men, women, boys and girls and found some very real differences.
This Is Your Brain On Crack [VIDEO]
How whack is crack really? Disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Rod freely admits to smoking crack cocaine ‘in one of my drunken stupors’ (he also regularly binge drinks – fun guy). Thanks to the mayor, everyone’s talking about crack again. This video shows you exactly what happens to your brain on crack, and it’s definitely not fun.
These Optical Illusions Will Make You Second Guess Your Brain [VIDEO]
Things are not always what they seem! Check out this video and put your brain to the test! These optical illusions are sure to play trickery on your brain and give your mind a well needed mid-week work out.
This Guy’s Brain Is Controlling This Other Guy’s Hand [VIDEO]
Researchers from the University of Washington believe this is the first “noninvasive human to human brain interface.” Which is a fancy way of explaining that this guy is very definitely controlling this other guy’s body with his MIND.
Man Loses The Ability To Feel Sad After Suffering Stroke
68-year-old, Malcom Myatt of England, will never be sad again. After spending 19 weeks in the hospital due to a stroke he suffered, doctors told him the frontal lobe of his brain had been destroyed. That’s the section of the brain that controls emotions.
This Is The Part Of Your Brain That Decides Whether Or Not It Likes Something On The Net
If you have been longing for anything to viral on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube you need to aim for this part of the brain. The Temporo-Parietal Junction, or the TPJ.
Yes, Hobbits Did Actually Once Exist
In 2003, on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia, an 18,000 year-old fossil was discovered of Homo Floresiensis, a humanoid, one metre high. The discovery of the fossil led researchers to believe that they were a unique species of human, and not in fact deformed.
Scientists Turn Brain Transparent To Get A Better Look [VIDEO]
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new way of looking at the brain – they make the brain tissue almost transparent.
Pretend To Ignore This Headline – “Court Rules That Cellphones CAN Cause Brain Tumours”
2oceansvibe has long despised the rude habit of random, unplanned phone calls. That was to do with manners, but now it is OFFICIALLY affecting our health as well. So you just carry on.. make another phone call. Click headline for story.
New Drug Could Make You Never Forget
According to the exciting world of Science, the men in white coats have discovered a molecule in the brains of mice that, when switched on, gives these mice super memories. This could work for humans too – but the question is, do you really want to?
Straight Man Becomes Gay After Stroke
Strokes can have massive effects on the body and mind, and are known to be occasionally transformative. Perhaps none more-so than the stroke experienced by Chris Birch during a rugby training incident in Wales. Birch,26, claims to have woken up after suffering a stroke feeling very different, and that the incident had turned him into a gay man. He was engaged to his girlfriend at the time.
Facebook Enlarges Social Areas Of Brain
Neuroscientists have discovered that using Facebook has a measurable impact on the size of particular areas of the brain. The results of a recent study show that the more Facebook friends you have, the bigger and denser become the three parts of your brain which are associated with the power to socialise. It’s unclear whether by ‘socialise’ they mean really, in real life. But maybe.
Scientists Can Reconstruct The Pictures In Our Heads Now [VIDEO]
It’s always nice when the world catches up with 80’s sci-fi films. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have succeeded in reconstructing people’s visual experiences using MRI and image libraries. Which means that if you click on the link you can see somebody’s brain try to replicate the Pink Panther film trailer.
Manchester Art Installation Shows Your Brain’s Reaction To Cocktails
Hemingway drank cocktails. I’m just saying that now so that any concerns about masculinity and ‘girly drinks’ are shelved from the get-go. Multimedia artist Marcos Lutyens has set up an installation that projects arsty scans from EEG headsets worn by people drinking Absolut vodka, and if boozey brain-waves isn’t art then I don’t know what is.