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Henry Markram Talks Brain Simulation

posted on 6/23/2017 9:00:00 AM

The preliminary work for simulating the human brain is already under way

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A week long awakening

posted on 5/21/2017 10:14:00 PM

Daily brain stimulation has helped people in a minimally conscious state communicate even after the treatment ended

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Electric zaps bring brain-dead people back to life for a week: Scientists successfully 'reawake' two patients from a vegetative state with brain stimulation

posted on 5/17/2017 3:09:00 PM

Neurologists in Belgium tested transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) They used the method to stimulate the brains of 16 brain-dead people After 5 days of 20-minute-a-day sessions, 2 in a vegetative state could respond to a conversation Another 9 were showing signs of awareness following the treatment

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Fancy a drink?

posted on 3/16/2017 9:23:00 PM

The average adult drinks about 1.7 litres of fluids a day: water, tea, coffee, soda, milk, fruit juice and more. But our ideas of what we should be drinking are clouded by urban myths, wishful thinking and dubious health claim

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