Neuroscience
TED Talk: Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain
July 2010
Watch the talk here
"In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works backward -- manipulating specific neurons to figure out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that reengineer the way fruit flies percieve light."
- More Videos From The Redwood Center For Theoretical Neuroscience
Charles Anderson: A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation is a talk given at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley on 04/10/06, now available on video. From the abstract: ...a computational framework [1] that shows...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Today's Ted Talk: Dr. James Flynn Of "the Flynn Effect"
Watch his TED talk here. ...
- Neuroimaging And Stimulating Human Brain Remodeling
A broadcast of a recent presentation at the National Institutes of Health: Watch the presentation Air date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Category: Neuroscience Description: Neuroscience Seminar...
- Light-switch Technology: Channelrhodopsin-2
From tomorrow's New York Times: The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain By INGFEI CHEN Published: August 14, 2007 [snip] One of the newest, fastest strategies co-opts a photosensitive protein called channelrhodopsin-2 from pond...
Neuroscience
TED Talk: Gero Miesenboeck
TED Talk: Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain
July 2010
Watch the talk here
"In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works backward -- manipulating specific neurons to figure out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that reengineer the way fruit flies percieve light."
- More Videos From The Redwood Center For Theoretical Neuroscience
Charles Anderson: A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation is a talk given at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley on 04/10/06, now available on video. From the abstract: ...a computational framework [1] that shows...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Today's Ted Talk: Dr. James Flynn Of "the Flynn Effect"
Watch his TED talk here. ...
- Neuroimaging And Stimulating Human Brain Remodeling
A broadcast of a recent presentation at the National Institutes of Health: Watch the presentation Air date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Category: Neuroscience Description: Neuroscience Seminar...
- Light-switch Technology: Channelrhodopsin-2
From tomorrow's New York Times: The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain By INGFEI CHEN Published: August 14, 2007 [snip] One of the newest, fastest strategies co-opts a photosensitive protein called channelrhodopsin-2 from pond...