POSTS TAGGED AS Neuroscience

A New Generation of Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks

Training spiking neural networks using lessons from deep learning
“This article [from an international collaboration of computer scientists and electrical engineers] [MORE]

Neural Interface and Microfluidics Device

Flexible neural interface  and microfluidic device
“We [South Korean robotic engineers] fabricated a microfluidic interconnection cable (µFIC) and integrated it with [MORE]

How Neural Organization Develops in an Infant

fMRI
Infants, younger than four months, have multipurpose brains that have not yet specialized in processing information such as facial recognition. [MORE]

Watching Memory as It Happens

Neuronal Activity
Brain mapping has brought forward several big science projects around the world which all have the same goal—i.e. to [MORE]

Looking through the “Golden Window,” Deep inside the Brain

 
PET Image Golden WIndow
A biomedical engineer at the City College of New York’s Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers has [MORE]

Sleep, Memory and Beta-Amyloid

Brain with Beta-Amyloid (right)
Sleep is healthful. Indeed, poor sleep quality may be an early sign of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and [MORE]

Implantable Microscope for Brain Exploration

Laser Scanning Microscope
Neuroscientists at the University of Colorado’s medical campus in Denver have built a prototype of a tiny implantable [MORE]

A Smarter Neural Implant

Multi Function Fiber
Neurons depend upon chemical and electrical signaling simultaneously; so, a smarter neural implant would do the same. To [MORE]

Detecting Stroke with a Smartphone

Samsung Developing Wearable Sensor for Stroke Detection
Imagine this: your eyeglasses have sensors that fit snug to the temples and are [MORE]

Seeing Neurons as They Work

CaMPARI Fluorescence in a Larval Zebrafish
Calcium-sensitive fluorescent molecules have allowed researchers to see neuronal activity for some time, but mainly [MORE]

Neuroprosthetic for the Central Nervous System

Neuroprosthetics
In a great example of interdisciplinary collaboration, bioengineers in Lausanne, Switzerland have developed a brain or spinal cord prosthetic that [MORE]

Pediatric Blood-Brain Barrier Chip

Brain-on-a-Chip
The naturally-occurring blood-brain barrier is a mesh of capillaries within which endothelial cells are spaced so tightly that they form [MORE]

Max Planck in Florida

Sometime this year, construction and furnishing of the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience will be completed in Jupiter, FL—the [MORE]

“Brain Reading”

Brain Research
This piece describes research at UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging aimed at understanding and treating smoking addiction.  Investigators [MORE]