Tag: brain

  • Losing Our Minds, part 2

    Losing Our Minds, part 2

    Losing Our Minds part 1 Yesterday Medscape published an article (Alzheimer’s set to Skyrocket):  “approximately 47 million Americans currently have preclinical AD.  That number is expected to jump to more than 75 million by 2060.”  The numbers are staggering. The article then spoke about the process, or what little we know of the process, of how the disease…

  • False but happy memory implanted in sleeping mice – Rodent recall

    photo:  Chris Warbey via Guardian newspaper This is really interesting – animals, including humans, have a map of neurons that represent “place”.  By figuring out which neuron represented which place in a mouses brain, scientists attached an electrode to this single specific “place” neuron, and another in the reward center of the brain: Scientists have…