On the convergence of neuroscience and electronic engineering

By SharpBrains | July 9, 2014

To under­stand the brain you need elec­tron­ic engi­neers too (The Con­ver­sa­tion): “Elec­tron­ic engi­neers are emerg­ing as impor­tant con­trib­u­tors to under­stand­ing of the work­ings of the human brain. There is a rapid­ly grow­ing inter­sec­tion between elec­tron­ic engi­neer­ing and neuroscience. 

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10–12 hours of meditation training can improve daily-life emotional regulation

By SharpBrains | November 14, 2012

Med­i­ta­tion Appears to Pro­duce Endur­ing Changes in Emo­tion­al Pro­cess­ing in the Brain (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “A new study has found that par­tic­i­pat­ing in an 8‑week med­i­ta­tion train­ing pro­gram can have mea­sur­able effects on how the brain func­tions even when some­one is not active­ly meditating…While neu­roimag­ing stud­ies have found that med­i­ta­tion train­ing appeared to decrease acti­va­tion of the…

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Cognitive therapy or medication? Brain scans may help personalize treatments

By SharpBrains | September 7, 2012

Pre­dict­ing How Patients Respond to Ther­a­py (press release): “A new study led by MIT neu­ro­sci­en­tists has found that brain scans of patients with social anx­i­ety dis­or­der can help pre­dict whether they will ben­e­fit from cog­ni­tive behav­ioral therapy…Social anx­i­ety is usu­al­ly treat­ed with either cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py or med­ica­tions. However,

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Connecting the (Brain) Dots: Understanding Brain Functional Networks

By SharpBrains | April 24, 2012

A sta­tis­ti­cal mod­el of the net­work of con­nec­tions between brain regions (Kurzweil): — “Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge have devel­oped a sim­ple math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el of the brain which pro­vides a remark­ably com­plete sta­tis­ti­cal account of the com­plex web of con­nec­tions between var­i­ous brain regions.”

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