Things that happen when science is funded:
"Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows"
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I wonder how long it will be until the Trump regime puts a halt to this type of research.
#psilocybin #brain #HeadTrauma #research
https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-put-rat-brains-back-together-after-mild-head-trauma
ScienceAlert · Psilocybin Put Rat Brains 'Back Together' After Mild Head TraumaScientists are investigating whether the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms can put a brain 'back together' after head injuries.
It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory. 
From @KnowableMag: "Half a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers."
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsIt began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memoryHalf a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers
Dr. Neal interviewed by Mel Hopper Koppelman, episode 15: Neijing Brain Balancing
Mel Hopper Koppelman speaks with dr. Edward Neal about brain laterality, balancing the left and right hemispheres, and how these dynamics influence our lives as there are fascinating connections between the Neijing and modern science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQq47Msg-7s
#neijing #acupuncture #brain #science #chinesemedicine
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"To test this idea, researchers gave what they describe as 'bump on head, ice pack' injuries to 16 adult female rats without anesthesia for three days in a row. Half an hour after each of the daily injuries, half the rats received an injection of psilocybin."
An unusual female-only study.
Hope it still works if treatment is delayed.
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"The authors also noticed the rats treated with psilocybin showed reduced hyper-reactivity to CO2 following their head injuries and 'dramatic' differences in their functional connectivity."
Very interesting!
Researchers at Northeastern University were left “absolutely stunned” when a preliminary study showed that psilocybin was able to restore brain function in adult rodents that had experienced mild, repetitive head injuries. @ScienceAlert has more:
ScienceAlert · Psilocybin Put Rat Brains 'Back Together' After Mild Head TraumaScientists are investigating whether the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms can put a brain 'back together' after head injuries.
Once upon a time, I asked people to review my memoir, written w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, Finding the Right Words on #Amazon to help people dealing w/#dementia: the complexities of #brain health, #caregiving, #grief. B/c #Bezos is no longer someone I can support b/c he supports #Nazis, I humbly ask you -- if you've read the book -- to review it here. Also, #NIH cuts & the evisceration of #Alzheimer's research (et al.) will immiserate all of us. Grief (& rage) are the words.
Once upon a time, I asked people to review my memoir, written w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, Finding the Right Words on #Amazon to help people dealing w/#dementia: the complexities of #brain health, #caregiving, #grief. B/c #Bezos is no longer someone I can support b/c he supports #Nazis, I humbly ask you -- if you've read the book -- to review it here. Also, #NIH cuts & the evisceration of #Alzheimer's research (et al.) will immiserate all of us. Grief (& rage) are the words.
Psilocybin Put Rat Brains 'Back Together' After Mild Head Trauma
https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-put-rat-brains-back-together-after-mild-head-trauma
ScienceAlert · Psilocybin Put Rat Brains 'Back Together' After Mild Head TraumaScientists are investigating whether the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms can put a brain 'back together' after head injuries.
It may be the pain it causes to your teeth or the gross taste in your mouth, but a news study shows that chewing on a hard substance like wood can increase levels of a naturally occurring antioxidant in the human brain. This isn’t to suggest you gnaw on a 2x4, but perhaps chewing on a pencil may improve a person’s memory. @ScienceAlert has more on what dogs have apparently known for decades:
ScienceAlert · Chewing Wood Could Give Your Brain an Unexpected BoostMaybe dogs who chew sticks are on to something.
The #memoir I wrote with Dr. Bruce Miller is now available in #Chinese. Thank you Johns Hopkins UP & East China Normal UP. According to this article, "#China has the world's largest population of patients with #dementia, and #Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADOD) is the fifth leading cause of death in China." I hope this translation finds its way to people who are looking for information about #brain health, #grief, and #caregiving.
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14254
The #memoir I wrote with Dr. Bruce Miller is now available in #Chinese. Thank you Johns Hopkins UP & East China Normal UP. According to this article, "#China has the world's largest population of patients with #dementia, and #Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADOD) is the fifth leading cause of death in China." I hope this translation finds its way to people who are looking for information about #brain health, #grief, and #caregiving.
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14254
→ What Ketamine Does to the #Human #Brain (via @carolannie)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/ketamine-effects-elon-musk/681911/
“[T]he #drug is reportedly popular among #SiliconValley’s #tech elite, and a feature at some wellness retreats, including those for #leadership development, corporate team building, or couples counseling”
“#Musk has said he uses #ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he’s currently #high, or how it might affect his #behavior”
The Atlantic · What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Australian company Cortical Labs has launched the CL1, the world's first #commercial "biological computer" that merges #human #brain cells with #silicon #hardware to form adaptable, energy-efficient neural networks.
https://newatlas.com/brain/cortical-bioengineered-intelligence/
New Atlas · World's first "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cellsThe first-ever "biological computer" powered by human cells, which form an ever-learning neural network, has been launched. It's an entirely new kind of AI – Synthethic Biological Intelligence – and not even its creators can predict its full potential.
A study from EPFL, Univ of Cambridge, and Kumamoto Univ shows movement units in the neocortex consist of modules localized in areas traditionally associated with planning, executing, and sensing movements. Traditional view of cortex is it’s structured in vertical columns where neurons are stacked in layers. New finding shows movement units are organized horizontally into neuron-type-specific modules across different cortical regions.
go.epfl.ch · Unraveling the brain's hidden motor modulesScientists have identified previously unknown neural modules in the brain that control movement and adapt during skill learning. Their findings challenge long-held ideas about how the brain organizes movement.
Our #OpenAccess #book fund is showing real results! One of our supported researchers, Stephan Schleim, shared that their book "#Brain Development and the #Law: #Neurolaw in Theory and Practice" has been downloaded over 4,000 times!
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-72362-9
Stephan's publication was part of the first funding cycle that contributed to the publication of 47 open access books.
https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/funding-deals-and-discounts/oa-book-fund
SpringerLinkBrain Development and the LawThis open access book is the first to offer a systematic overview of the different methods for assessing brain development
Formation of organic glass from a human brain — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88894-5
#HackerNews #Formation #of #organic #glass #from #a #human #brain #science #innovation #neuroscience #organicglass #humanbrain
NatureUnique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE - Scientific ReportsGlass forms when a liquid is fast cooled preventing crystallization, across a reversible process known as the glass transition. Organic tissues are commonly preserved as glass by processes of vitrification at very low temperatures, known as cryopreservation, and can return to their original soft state when heated back to ambient temperature. It would therefore be impossible to find organic glass embedded in volcanic deposits that have reached several hundred of Celsius degrees. Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed within the hot pyroclastic flow deposits of the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption formed by a unique process of vitrification of his brain at very high temperature, and is the only such occurrence on Earth. Calorimetric analyses show that the temperature at which the brain transformed into glass was well above 510 °C, implying that the body was exposed to the passage and vanishing of a short-lived, dilute and much hotter pyroclastic flow, explaining its early fast heating and the following very fast cooling. The glass that formed as a result of such a unique process attained a perfect state of preservation of the brain and its microstructures.
A History of the Human Brain From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved by Bret Stetka, 2021
“A History of the Human Brain is a unique, enlightening, and provocative account of the most significant question we can ask about ourselves.” —Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox
"Baker noted that "there's long been this very human-centric idea of intelligence that only humans are intelligent." That's fallen away within the scientific community as we've studied more about animal behavior. But there's still a bias to privilege human-like behaviors."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/ai-versus-the-brain-and-the-race-for-general-intelligence/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
A #longread by @arstechnica about the #anthropocentric #bias of #AGI and #AI companies - money versus nature.
Ars Technica · AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence