New brain imaging methods help detect giant, superconnected neurons such as this one (in a mouse’s brain)

By SharpBrains | March 1, 2017

A Giant Neu­ron Has Been Found Wrapped Around the Entire Cir­cum­fer­ence of the Brain (Sci­ence Alert): “For the first time, sci­en­tists have detect­ed a giant neu­ron wrapped around the entire cir­cum­fer­ence of a mouse’s brain, and it’s so dense­ly con­nect­ed across both hemi­spheres, it could final­ly explain the ori­gins of consciousness.

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Scientists call for network of “brain observatories” to accelerate neurotechnology research and innovation

By SharpBrains | October 16, 2015

. A nation­al net­work of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy cen­ters for the BRAIN Ini­tia­tive (press release): “The authors of the orig­i­nal pro­pos­al for the Brain Activ­i­ty Map (BAM) Project, which inspired the White House­’s BRAIN Ini­tia­tive, issued today a posi­tion state­ment in Neu­ron propos­ing the cre­ation of a nation­al net­work of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy cen­ters. These “brain obser­va­to­ries” would 

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The Life of Your Next Neuron

By SharpBrains | March 12, 2012

(In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week, which starts today, let’s learn a bit more about neu­rons. A ques­tion we get often as we dis­cuss the ben­e­fits of aer­o­bic and men­tal exer­cise is, “Can neu­rons trav­el -“migrate”- inside the brain?” Below you have the answer, and more, straight from the Nation­al Insti­tute of Health website.)

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Training Attention and Emotional Self-Regulation — Interview with Michael Posner

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 18, 2008 |

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is one of the 20 inter­views includ­ed in the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age) Michael I. Pos­ner is a promi­nent sci­en­tist in the field of cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science. He is cur­rent­ly an emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor of neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon (Depart­ment…

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