Monitoring Soldiers' Brains in the Field
REading SoldierMakinano/USAF/DODScientists are working on a device that will quickly assess whether a soldier has incurred a serious brain injury As many as 320,000 U.S. troops may have sustained brain...
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Mood rings contain crystal that changes structurally, much like the crystals used to detect bomb blastshappyrings.comA new color-changing badge may help medics determine the severity of brain trauma in...
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Soldiers who manage to walk away from explosions in Iraq may actually be suffering terrible-yet invisible-brain trauma. Could blast waves be fueling a new breed of injury? August 15, 2008— The first...
View ArticleNeural Stem Cells Don't Need to Be Surgically Implanted: You Can Just Snort Them
Say Hello To My 300,000 Little FriendsResearchers found that snorting a large sample of stem cells through the nasal cavity will deliver a portion of them to the brain intact, ready to treat...
View ArticleThe World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
IntendixJust focus on the letter you want to type; Intendix does the rest.IntendixThe world's first commercial effort at a patient-ready brain computer interface is on display over at CeBIT 2010, but...
View ArticleDARPA Wants to Install Transcranial Ultrasonic Mind Control Devices in...
Standard Issue Mind ControlDARPA wants ultrasound-enhanced helmets that allow soldiers to stimulate certain regions of their brains.DARPA has been trying to crawl inside the minds of soldiers for a...
View ArticleCan "Brain Freeze" Cause Long-Term Brain Damage?
Brain FreezeGetty ImagesWe've all sucked down a milkshake so quickly that it causes a sudden headache-the dreaded brain freeze. But . . . milkshake. Tasty. Must. Drink. Could chugging the rest of that...
View ArticleIn First Stem Cell Stroke Trial, Scottish Patient Has Embryonic Stem Cells...
Human Embryonic Stem CellsPLoS Biology via Wikimedia CommonsThis week, doctors drilled a hole into a Scottish truck driver's head and injected his brain with 2 million stem cells, in the first-ever...
View ArticleThere Is a Super-Entity Inside the Human Brain
Rich Clubs in the Human ConnectomeThis image shows the group connectome, with the nodes and connections colored according to their rich-club participation. Green represents few connections. Red...
View ArticleNew Device Treats Brain Injury By Zapping Nerves On The Tongue
The Portable NeuroModulation StimulatorU.S. ArmyThe tongue-mounted invention may help soldiers rebuild neural connections after traumatic brain injury. A new electronic device could treat brain damage...
View ArticleMonitoring Soldiers' Brains in the Field
REading Soldier Makinano/USAF/DOD As many as 320,000 U.S. troops may have sustained brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet less than half of them were evaluated by doctors. But now the Wall...
View ArticleA "Mood Ring" For Brain Trauma
Mood rings contain crystal that changes structurally, much like the crystals used to detect bomb blasts happyrings.com The September Popular Science feature "Shock to the System" (on newsstands next...
View ArticleA Shock to the System
HIT THE DECK A roadside bomb explodes in Baghdad. Improvised explosive devices cause up to 60 percent of American military injuries in Iraq. While body armor keeps most soldiers alive, blasts may be...
View ArticleNeural Stem Cells Don't Need to Be Surgically Implanted: You Can Just Snort Them
Say Hello To My 300,000 Little Friends Researchers found that snorting a large sample of stem cells through the nasal cavity will deliver a portion of them to the brain intact, ready to treat...
View ArticleThe World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
Intendix Just focus on the letter you want to type; Intendix does the rest. Intendix The world's first commercial effort at a patient-ready brain computer interface is on display over at CeBIT 2010,...
View ArticleDARPA Wants to Install Transcranial Ultrasonic Mind Control Devices in...
Standard Issue Mind Control DARPA wants ultrasound-enhanced helmets that allow soldiers to stimulate certain regions of their brains. DARPA has been trying to crawl inside the minds of soldiers for a...
View ArticleIn First Stem Cell Stroke Trial, Scottish Patient Has Embryonic Stem Cells...
Human Embryonic Stem Cells PLoS Biology via Wikimedia Commons This week, doctors drilled a hole into a Scottish truck driver's head and injected his brain with 2 million stem cells, in the first-ever...
View ArticleThere Is a Super-Entity Inside the Human Brain
Rich Clubs in the Human Connectome This image shows the group connectome, with the nodes and connections colored according to their rich-club participation. Green represents few connections. Red...
View ArticleNew Device Treats Brain Injury By Zapping Nerves On The Tongue
The Portable NeuroModulation Stimulator U.S. Army A new electronic device could treat brain damage by stimulating nerves on the tongue to send signals to the brain. The Portable NeuroModulation...
View ArticleCan 'Brain Freeze' Cause Long-Term Brain Damage?
Brain Freeze Getty Images We've all sucked down a milkshake so quickly that it causes a sudden headache—the dreaded brain freeze. But . . . milkshake. Tasty. Must. Drink. Could chugging the rest of...
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