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Cafeteria 2 at RIKEN

vladowsky — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:15 +0000

Cafeteria 2 at RIKEN

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A very stylish cafeteria. Beer night every Friday.

Path at the RIKEN pond

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One of many green spots at the RIKEN campus in Tokyo.

Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (FT Press Science)

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially “locked down” by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you’d be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there’d be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious, irreplaceable brain cells. But over the past five, ten, twenty years, all that’s changed. Using fMRI and PET scanning technology, neuroscientis

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vladowsky — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:03:16 +0000

Music From Eastman: Alec Wilder: Phyllis McGinley Song Cycle, Oboe Sonata, Bassoon Sonata No. 3 / Allan Blank: Duo for Bassoon and Piano – Jan DeGaetani, K. david Van Hoesen, Gretchen Van Hoesen, Richard Killmer, Barry Snyder, Bill Dobbins

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Ice cream may target the brain before your hips, UT Southwestern study suggests

h+ Magazine: News Feed — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:07:08 +0000

Kristen Holland Shear

DALLAS – Sept. 14, 2009 – Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night’s football game.

Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggest that fat from certain foods we eat makes its way to the brain. Once there, the fat molecules cause the brain to send messages to the body’s cells, warning them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and insulin, hormones involved in weight regulation.

The researchers also found that one particular type of fat – palmitic acid – is particularly effective at instigating this mechanism.

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Nam Do

vladowsky — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:03:03 +0000

inktalks.com Tech entrepreneur Nam Do showcases the next generation of human-computer interface through the Emotiv EPOC headset that makes it possible to control virtual objects with your thoughts. In his demo, Nam Do talks about its far-reaching applications. Prior to forming Emotiv, Nam Do co-founded and ran SASme, a pioneer in providing SMPP platforms to telecommunication carriers and content aggregators in Australia and Asia. In 1995, Nam won one of Vietnam’s most prestigious study abroad scholarships. Nam came to Australia’s RMIT University under a full merit scholarship, and started his first technology company in his final year. A regular guest-lecturer at Harvard Business School, HAAS Business School and Stanford University, in 2007, Nam was voted as one of Australia’s Top 10 Digital Entrepreneurs. Untold Story In 2003, Nam Do had dinner with Professor Allan Snyder FRS. They discussed at length about Allan’s work on non-conscious mind with autistic savants. At 4am, Nam told Allan, “you know what, the last 20 years have been the era for DSP (digital signal processing), the next 20 years will be the era for ESP (emotional signal processing)”. Allan loved it and that’s how Emotiv was formed.

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Scientists get first close look at stimulated brain

h+ Magazine: News Feed — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:07:46 +0000

Veronica Meade-Kelly

BOSTON, Mass. (August 26, 2009) — For over a century, scientists have been using electrical stimulation to explore and treat the human brain. The technique has helped identify regions responsible for specific neural functions—for instance, the motor cortex and pleasure center—and has been used to treat a variety of conditions from Parkinson’s disease to depression. Yet no one has been able to see what actually happens at the cellular level when the brain is electrically prodded.

Now, with the aid of optical imaging technology, researchers in the lab of HMS neurobiology professor Clay Reid have taken the first look at this process. They found that the neural response to electrical currents isn’t localized, as some had previously thought. That is, not all neurons immediately surrounding an electrode fire when a charge is delivered. Rather, a scattered and widely distributed set of neurons switch on. These findings, which will appear in the August 27 issue of Neuron, promise to end a longstanding debate about how neurons react to electrical stimulation.

Traditionally, observing neurons during electrical stimulation has been problematic. First author Mark Histed, a postdoctoral fellow in Reid’s lab, explains, "When you are stimulating electrically you are using relatively high voltages, and those high voltages make it almost impossible to record the very small currents that neurons produce."

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