Are downloadable memories just around the corner?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223834/Are-downloadable-memories-just-round-corner.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:49 EST, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 18:49 EST, 26 October 2012 A scientist at MIT could be on track to uncovering how to restore lost memories in the brain. Using light stimulation to control neurons and map out brain activity, scientists could repair neuron functionality in cases where […]

Children addicted to television face a lifetime hooked to the box say doctors as they warn a generation risks brain damage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147871/Children-addicted-television-face-lifetime-hooked-box-say-doctors-warn-generation-risks-brain-damage.html By Fiona Macrae PUBLISHED: 18:24 EST, 21 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:24 EST, 21 May 2012 Today’s youngsters risk developing a lifelong dependency on TV and computer screens, Britain’s leading doctors will be told today. The growing addiction could leave a generation suffering damage to the body as well as the brain, a leading […]

Power really does corrupt as scientists claim it’s as addictive as cocaine

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136547/Power-really-does-corrupt-scientists-claim-addictive-cocaine.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 06:11 EST, 28 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:19 EST, 28 April 2012 More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true. The feeling of power has been found […]

How to live to a ripe old age: Regularly eating strawberries and blueberries can stave off mental decline by more than two years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2135396/Strawberries-blueberries-stave-mental-decline-later-years.html By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 02:55 EST, 26 April 2012 | UPDATED: 08:03 EST, 26 April 2012 Eating blueberries and strawberries may stave off mental decline in later life, claim researchers. They found brain ageing could be delayed by up to two and a half years in elderly women regularly eating high amounts of the […]

Think you’re all grown up? Remarkable new research suggests young people don’t become true adults until they’re 24

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134813/Think-youre-grown-Remarkable-new-research-suggests-young-people-dont-true-adults-theyre-24.html Researchers describe how the brain is not fully developed until the age of 24 Britain among the worst high-income countries for adolescent health behaviour By Amy Oliver PUBLISHED: 03:31 EST, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:30 EST, 25 April 2012 Getting plastered every Saturday night before heading back to a respectable office job on […]

‘The biggest experiment of our species’: With five billion mobile users in the world, conference calls for research into potential brain cancer risks

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134382/Risks-biggest-technological-experiment-history-species-Calls-research-links-using-mobile-phones-brain-cancer.html Scientists at London conference call for independent research into potential links between using a mobile phone and brain cancer Figures from ONS show 50 per cent increase in brain tumours since 1999 Studies ‘are split 50/50′ in conclusions, leaving the issue open for debate But believers fear fall-out from the ‘biggest technological experiment in […]

The God spots revealed: Scientists find areas of the brain responsible for spirituality

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133032/There-God-spot-new-research-claims-instead-spirituality-exists-brain.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:15 EST, 21 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:57 EST, 21 April 2012 Scientists have speculated for years that the human brain features a ‘God spot,’ one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. Now, University of Missouri researchers have completed research that indicates spirituality is a complex phenomenon […]

Washing up, cooking and cleaning can ‘reduce Alzheimers risk even in those over 80′

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2131876/Washing-cooking-cleaning-reduce-Alzheimers-risk-80.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:04 EST, 18 April 2012 | UPDATED: 20:04 EST, 18 April 2012 Washing up, cooking and cleaning can help reduce the risk of Alzheimers even in those over 80, a study has claimed. Researchers asked 716 volunteers with an average age of 82 to wear a device that monitors […]

Porn may shut down part of your brain! Naughty films ‘quiet the areas that process visual stimuli’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2132022/Porn-shut-brain-Naughty-films-quiet-areas-process-visual-stimuli.html By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 06:39 EST, 19 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:43 EST, 19 April 2012 Children have long been warned that self-stimulation could make them go blind. Now it appears there may be some truth in the old wives’ tale. New research shows that watching pornographic films can actually shut down the part […]

Scientists to build ‘human brain’: Supercomputer will simulate the entire mind and will help fight against brain diseases

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2130124/Scientists-build-human-brain-Supercomputer-simulate-mind-exactly-help-fight-brain-diseases.html The ‘brain’ will take 12 years to build It will feature thousands of three-dimensional images built around a semi-circular ‘cockpit’ By Tamara Cohen PUBLISHED: 13:27 EST, 15 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:14 EST, 15 April 2012 The human brain’s power could rival any machine. And now scientists are trying to build one using the […]