In a first-of-its-kind experiment, a team of scientists led by Daniel Levitin, Steve McAdams, and Teresa Marrin Nakra attached electrophysiological sensors to conductor Keith Lockhart, 5 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and 15 audience members, to measure their brain activity and emotional reactions during a live concert in Boston's Symphony Hall in April 2006.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have invented a new, noninvasive method for recording patterns of brain activity and using them to steer a partially autonomous robot so that “locked in” patients can interact with others and appear physically present — without a lot of effort and concentration.

Audio-visual brain entrainment using an Arduino

So they designed a new EEG-based, cognitive event-related potential (ERP) test: the auditory rule violation ERP.

Essentially, the test evaluates cerebral responses to violations of temporal regularities in two ways: it looks for EEG detection of identification of a single deviant sound among a pattern of standard sounds, and for a longer-term violation made up of a series of five unexpected sounds.

University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University researchers have found neurobiological evidence for the context reinstatement hypothesis: that memories formed nearby in time become linked.

Tim Mullen, Richard Warp, Adam Jansch
NIME 2011, Oslo Nofway

A bolt implanted in the skull would contain an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) microchip under the skin in the skull. It would pick up and process neural signals, and transmit them via the skin directly to a receiver located in or near the target muscle group (such as an arm or hand).

When viewing images that suggested pain in others, pain synesthetes, who are unusually sensitive to the pain of others, displayed decreased theta and alpha brainwaves compared with other volunteers, suggesting that their mirror neuron systems, which perceive the pain of others, were activated more strongly. The results provide evidence that the inhibitory mechanisms that usually dampen the perception of pain in others among healthy people may be absent or less apparent in pain-sensitive amputees.

The lab approaches cognitive neuroscience from the vantage point of hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction in humans. The two hemispheres serve as a model system for modularity and intermodular communication in the mind/brain. We use a convergent approach, combining anatomy (cortical asymmetries, the structure of the corpus callosum), physiology (PET, fMRI, EEG, ERP, TMS) and behavior (hemifield tachistoscopy, dichotic listening).

Research hints that electrically stimulating the brain can speed learning.

Scientists in Israel are testing a noninvasive method to electrically stimulate neurons deep in the brain.

A new kind of sensor could allow for long-term medical monitoring--without direct skin contact.

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk, and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads

Arnon Rolnick, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and past president of the Israeli Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and member of the Board of the Israeli Psychological Association. His expertise in stress management is based on almost 20 years of working with elite military units as a senior psychologist in the Israeli Navy and head of the Biofeedback and Human Performance Laboratory.

A prototype wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset debuts this week at the Medical Device and Manufacturing conference and exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.,

Stimulating the brain with a very low electric current can enhance a person's maths ability for up to six months, British neuroscientists said on Thursday.

Equisync's design is based on the 100's of studies performed on the effectiveness of binaural audio technology, and 1000's of studies on the powerful benefits of meditation. If you are interested in better understanding the power of this technology and rapidly expanding field of research, then here is a very abbreviated bibliography, a very small sample of the studies out there.

The researchers discovered that the difference in a sleeper’s reaction to noise could be predicted by the level of brain activity called “sleep spindles.’’ A sleep spindle is a burst of high-frequency brain activity generated from deep inside the brain during sleep. (They are called spindles because the researchers who identified the brain wave pattern in the 1930s thought it resembled yarn wrapped around a dowel.) The source of the spindles is the thalamus, a part of the brain that sends sensory information to the rest of the cortex.

Here we show that it is possible to predict an individual's ability to maintain sleep in the face of sound using spontaneous brain rhythms from electroencephalography (EEG). The sleep spindle is a thalamocortical rhythm manifested on the EEG as a brief 11–15 Hz oscillation and is thought to be capable of modulating the influence of external stimuli [2]. Its rate of occurrence, while variable across people, is stable across nights [3]. We found that individuals who generated more sleep spindles during a quiet night of sleep went on to exhibit higher tolerance for noise during a subsequent, noisy night of sleep.

a new study being published in Tuesday's edition of the journal Current Biology, I now know that his brain probably produces more sleep spindles than mine.

antidepressant brain imaging EEG

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