In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients--on her computer screen.
Experts said the findings could be important for future research into brain cell repair in patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and, importantly, that studies in mice would be applicable to humans.
Rather than discussing the already worn (and to me irrelevant) debate of digital book versus analog book, I talked about future technologies like brain computer interface, real-time simulation and programmable material, and how these will change the face of literature far beyond the Kindle, perhaps eventually eliminating text altogether.
In his luggage on his way home after the war he carried, for future study, the brain of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who had been killed by partisans.
Jones said he hopes that research will help bring more understanding of the brain disease so future football players are informed when they decide to take the field.
Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.
And Karmarkar expects brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice.
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President and co-founder of Emotiv Systems, Tan Le, said the brain-to-computer interface was undoubtedly the future for video games.
Stress to most of us means being short of cash, being over-worked in brain-numbing jobs, worrying about an uncertain future.
Oliver points to research showing that video gamers are more likely to be better lucid dreamers, and sees an opportunity for a future form of social media that employes a growing use of brain-reading gadgets like the Zeo, Muse and others.
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But it's unclear what such brain activity patterns would mean for a patient's future.
Future studies will investigate how obesity affects the same system in the brain.
Interestingly, the study also found that if a compound is given which blocks a step in the stress cascade, the same brain changes do not occur, which could suggest a future drug target.
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The leading nursing schools and nursing organizations have committed to educate current and future nurses on how to recognize and treat post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, depression and other combat-related issues.
Anything you do repetitively will activate the neurons in your brain, which makes the action more likely to be repeated in the future.
The basic problem is that the human brain struggles to envision anything close to an unbiased view of our place in the future.
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"In future studies, we'll analyse whether rehabilitation can influence the pattern of motor reorganisation after brain damage and whether certain patterns of reorganisation produce better patient outcomes, " he said.
Future researchers looking to increase IQ will need to become aware of the fact that its THE BRAIN that TEACHES, and THE MIND that LEARNS. I have recently completed a position paper that describes in detail the actual location in space where I think the human mind exists.
My mother was convinced my grades would suffer and my brain would turn to mush, but I always claimed I was doing research for my future career in television.
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"In the not-too-distant future, firms will be able to tell precisely if an advertising campaign or product redesign triggers the brain activity and neurochemical release associated with memory and action, " predicts James Bailey, professor of organizational behavior at George Washington University.
The human eye and brain can easily process 48 fps -- or even the 60fps James Cameron will use in future Avatar sequels.
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In a 2008 case report, a man who was receiving experimental brain stimulation for obesity also showed improvement in his memory, which prompted excitement and calls for future research.
But the hard reality is that few emerging markets have any hope, in the foreseeable future, of creating the type and volume of economic opportunities needed to reverse or even substantially slow the brain drain.
The researchers are hopeful that it will be possible in future to determine which patients are likely to go on and develop Alzheimer's disease on the basis of brain scans.
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