brain circuits

How COVID-related stress can disrupt your brain circuits and nine tips to prevent it

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COVID-19 has touched each of us some­how. Many now rec­og­nize that car­ing for our men­tal health is as essen­tial as address­ing the virus if we are to emerge stronger, more con­nect­ed and more resilient.

The Ancient Greeks said “know thy­self” to live sound­ly, but it is only now that we have the tech­nol­o­gy to start under­stand­ing how our indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ences arise from the com­plex­i­ty of our brains. [Read more…] about How COVID-relat­ed stress can dis­rupt your brain cir­cuits and nine tips to pre­vent it

Three pioneers of neuroplasticity research discuss the present and future of rewiring the brain

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neuroplasticity-A DISCUSSION WITH EVE MARDER, MICHAEL MERZENICH AND CARLA SHATZ (2016 KAVLI PRIZE IN NEUROSCIENCE):

“Our view of the brain as some­thing con­stant­ly shaped by thought and expe­ri­ence is only a few decades old, yet it has pro­found­ly influ­enced how we teach and treat, raise our young and care for the old.

Eve Marder, Michael Merzenich and Car­la Shatz are three researchers who, in very dif­fer­ent ways, have revealed that the brain is high­ly change­able, or plas­tic. [Read more…] about Three pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research dis­cuss the present and future of rewiring the brain

Is Mental Health ready to start transitioning towards measurable brain circuits, away from subjective symptoms?

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mental-healthTo Diag­nose Men­tal Ill­ness, Read the Brain (Sci­en­tif­ic American):

Although sci­en­tists have learned a lot about the brain in the last few decades, approach­es to treat­ing men­tal ill­ness­es have not kept up. As neu­ro­sci­en­tists learn more about brain cir­cuits, Stan­ford psy­chi­a­trist Amit Etkin fore­sees a time when diag­noses will be based on brain scans rather than symp­toms [Read more…] about Is Men­tal Health ready to start tran­si­tion­ing towards mea­sur­able brain cir­cuits, away from sub­jec­tive symptoms?

Start-up Thync raises $13 million to market transcranial stimulation via consumer wearable

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brain stimulation

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Thync gets $13 mil­lion to send elec­tric cur­rents to your brain (SFGate):

“Thync, a Los Gatos start­up, is work­ing on a wear­able that’s a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from most: it would send fine elec­tric cur­rents through the brain to alter users’ state of mind…some ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists are on-board with the unusu­al vision: on Wednes­day, it said it has raised $13 mil­lion from Khosla Ven­tures and oth­er investors.

Thync says it has cre­at­ed the first wear­able that uses “neu­rosig­nal­ing algo­rithms” to [Read more…] about Start-up Thync rais­es $13 mil­lion to mar­ket tran­scra­nial stim­u­la­tion via con­sumer wearable

Next: Neurotechnologies to visualize (and why not enhance) brain circuits

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Cred­it: Vin­cent Pieri­bone, Ph.D., John B. Pierce Lab­o­ra­to­ry, Inc.

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Obama’s Brain Project Backs Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy (MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review):

“…The White House had com­mit­ted to spend­ing $100 mil­lion this year on the project, which seeks to devel­op new tech­nolo­gies for study­ing the brain. As part of that, today the U.S. Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health announced [Read more…] about Next: Neu­rotech­nolo­gies to visu­al­ize (and why not enhance) brain circuits