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A Quarter Million Gamers Helped Build This Incredibly Detailed Map of the Brain
EyeWire, neuroscience’s most audacious experiment, just opened up a digital museum. Constructed with the help of a quarter million gamers, EyeWire Museum is one-of-a-kind: the [...]
How to relax and meditate with help from Alexa and Google Assistant
We're forever being told that switching off from technology is good for our mental health. But, in some ways, technology is here to help. There [...]
MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’
When is a sleeper actually asleep? There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, [...]
Holograms Can Now Program Brain Activity—Are Fake Experiences Next?
Optogenetics, neuroscience’s hottest mind-control tool, just got a major update. Projecting 3D-light holograms—yes, holograms!—directly onto a mouse’s cortex, engineers at UC Berkeley instantaneously gained control [...]
Could Pokemon GO, Augmented Reality Apps be Used for Mental Health Therapy?
The use of the popular smartphone application Pokémon GO—and possibly similar games—could have the potential therapeutic benefits for those with mental illness. The findings showed [...]
Editing brain activity with holography
What if we could edit the sensations we feel; paste in our brain pictures that we never saw, cut out unwanted pain or insert non-existent [...]