By StudyFinds The glow of screens has become the unofficial nightlight of a generation, but at what cost? As researchers track the intersection of screen time, sleep patterns, and behavioral issues among preschoolers, they’re discovering that the digital devices meant to entertain and educate might be wreaking havoc on young …
Are bright cities ruining brains? Light pollution linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Is the streetlamp outside your window putting you on the highway to cognitive decline? From busy cities to the light coming from the smartphones people keep right next to them in bed, a new study has found a startling connection between this nonstop activity and brain health. Researchers in Chicago …
The brain’s “switch” that puts fear into overdrive
Fear is essential for survival, serving the important evolutionary purpose of increasing an organism’s vigilance and alerting it to dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations. An inappropriate fear response can, however, be harmful. Such responses are triggered in the absence of any real threat and play a role in a variety …
Walking in Nature can Restore Brain’s Ability to Pay Attention
By John Anderer While great American authors like Whitman and Thoreau have been telling us for centuries that nature can soothe the soul and heal the heart, new research finds a walk in green spaces may be just as revitalizing for the brain. Scientists from the University of Utah say …
High levels of mercury traced to particular cell types in brains of mammals
Tissue-level X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging elemental distributions in coronal brain sections reveal Hg aggregation in choroid plexus and ventricular wall. A) Matching section in yellow mongoose brain atlas: http://neurosciencelibrary.org/Specimens/carnivora/yellowmongoose/index.html. B) Fe, Cu, Zn, Se, and Hg distributions. C) Hg/Fe distributions in area indicated in Hg (B). Ventricles and brain tissue …
Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder | MIT News
With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers. The new study reveals that sentences that are more complex, either because of unusual grammar or unexpected meaning, generate stronger responses in these …
AI system self-organizes to develop features of brains of complex organisms
Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system — in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological constraints — allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks. As …
DEBUNKED – We Only Use 10% of Our Brains
Have you ever heard that humans only use 10% of their brains? Did you know that it was a bullshit? That’s what we explore in … source
Evolution wired human brains to act like supercomputers
Scientists have confirmed that human brains are naturally wired to perform advanced calculations, much like a high-powered computer, to make sense of the world through a process known as Bayesian inference. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Sydney, University of Queensland and …
The brains of lonely people process the world differently
The brains of lonely individuals respond to video stimuli in unique ways dissimilar from their peers, while the brains of less lonely people respond similarly to others’, suggesting that lonely individuals may process the world differently, which could exacerbate or even trigger their loneliness. This finding was recently published in …
Big Tech Crash Extends into 2023 as Does Science Fiction with “Hackable Brains” False Prophecies
by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News The Big Tech crash that started in 2022 has now extended into 2023. Here is what I reported in the 4th quarter of 2022: Big Tech Crash! Twitter Near Bankruptcy, Amazon First Company to Lose $1 TRILLION, Facebook Fires 11,000 Employees Big Tech Crash …