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Book Review: The Brain by Dr. David Eagleman

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Pooja Kashyap

Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford, NYT bestselling author, Writer/Host of THE BRAIN on PBS, and the list continues. After listening to his podcasts and TED talks, I decided to pick-up one book from his vault – The Brain: The Story of You. The book is an interesting read and at some points, quite an eye opener. Here, Dr. Eagleman reviews how the human brain develops and make sense of the data that it receives from sensory systems. We are built to perceive only thin slice of perception,…

Human Brain Organoids Implanted in Mice: Human-mouse Synapses

January 10, 2023January 11, 2023 Pooja Kashyap

An international team of neuroscientists has demonstrated that human brain organoids when implanted in the cerebral cortex region of a mice can respond to external sensory stimuli. Brain organoid, here, refers to a three-dimensional tissue that is made from skin cells.

Interview: Wa’d AbuZurayk, a Neurotherapist and Paediatric Occupational Therapist, Jordan

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Wa’d AbuZurayk is the first qualified neurotherapist and paediatric occupational therapist in Jordan. She has attained her licensed device from Germany. The device is both FDA and internationally approved. She is also the founder of Ujeed, Child Development Consultations in Amman, Jordan. These days most of her time is occupied with families to create their own unique narrative through neurotherapy, occupational therapy and a pinch of magic. With the help of neurotherapy, Wa’d aims to retrain the brain to develop new skills and increase brain fitness. While at the same time…

Multiple Modes of Dendritic Integration in Single Neurons: Brain Computation

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Dendrites, branch like extensions protruding from a single neuron, participate in computations and permutations to give a synchronized output to the neuron. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated that not only different types of dendrites (of a single neuron) collect input from various regions of the brain, they also process that information in different customized ways.

Maneuvering Brain Astrocytes via Magnetic Field: Magnetomechanical Stimulation

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at University College London have discovered a new form of non-invasive therapy for neurological disorders. The technique called “magnetomechanical stimulation” (MMS) involves microscopic magnetic particles for remotely stimulating brain cells.

Altering Macrophage Metabolism Helps Damage Nerves Recover: Neuronal Health

October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Peripheral nervous system (PNS) axons regenerate in contrast with central nervous system (CNS) axons, however, the rate of renewal is fairly slow. It is because of its sluggish rate majority of the peripheral nerve injuries lead to permanent disability for patients.

Swimming is Dynamics of Two Nervous System: AgnathaX

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Starting in the early 1900s, one of the problems that baffled neuroscientists worldwide was the role of central and peripheral nervous systems in swimming locomotion. In other words, how swimming locomotion is generated and how vertebrates synchronize the rhythm that is required for the locomotion.

Memory Consolidation via Excitatory And Inhibitory Networks: Neuronal Circuits

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Until now, neuroscientists believed that during memory consolidation only “one” excitatory process occurs and that also in the Hippocampus region of the brain. Lately, McGill-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that there is not one but two different processes that are simultaneously taking place in different neural network within brain.

Internet of Things Will Morph To Internet of Humans: Neuralink

September 9, 2020September 22, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

In The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990), inventor and visionary computer scientist, Raymond Kurzweil predicted that there will be a huge increase in the use of technology and an exponential growth in the internet. And by mid-21st century, AI would overtake human brain in computational capabilities. Eventually it would lead to intelligence explosion resulting in a powerful super intelligence that qualitatively surpass all human intelligence.

Specialized Grafts Behaved Like Neurons: Spinal Cord Injury

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

A spinal cord injury (SCI) usually causes perpetual damage within our body. This can result in long-term disability. And in most of the cases, spinal cord compression can lead to paralysis.

10 Amazing Brain Facts: The Most Complex Manifestation of Intelligence

June 23, 2020August 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Study of human brain is one of the most remarkable subjects of all times. The more we learn, the more questions we have, this holds true for the wide network of neurons that we all carry above our head, literally.

Book Review: Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M Pittman, Elizabeth M Karle

May 12, 2020June 29, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Anxiety is part of our everyday life but chronic anxiety is a type of mental illness. It is neither a temporary problem nor does it get away with medications. It can have serious consequences on health such as depression, mood swings, headache, panic attacks, pounding heart, breathing problems, extreme fatigue, increase in blood pressure and so on.

Obesity May Trigger The Progression Of Brain Ageing: Neurobiology Of Aging

August 4, 2016 Pooja Kashyap

Over the years, various researches across neurobiology of aging have suggested that brain shrinks with age. A recent study led by the University of Cambridge has added that obesity may also trigger the progression of brain ageing.

Whisker System Reveals How Neurons Communicate Touch: Sensing Mechanism

August 3, 2016 Pooja Kashyap

Sense of touch helps us in distinguishing things in regions where sense of sight or our eyes can’t go, let’s say in purse or pocket. If we are to fetch keys from loose change in our pockets, without giving it a second thought, we take out the required thing, this happens due to sensorimotor integration.

Music Lessons facilitate Neurodevelopment: Enhancing the Teenage Brain

July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 Neha Shukla

According to a study conducted by Northwestern University, music training may help in enhancing brain’s responses to sound, hone hearing and language skills in teenagers even if it is introduced as late as in high school. The study suggests music lessons helps improving skills that are considered important for academic success.