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Zephyr/Getty Images Experts explain how certain worms can infect the brain and why they are an important global public health problem. Earlier this week news broke that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed to have once had a dead worm in his brain. Kennedy had been experiencing memory loss and mental fog, and he…
If you take it for granted that nobody can listen in on your innermost thoughts, I regret to inform you that your brain may not be private much longer. You may have heard that Elon Musk’s company Neuralink surgically implanted a brain chip in its first human. Dubbed “Telepathy,” the chip uses neurotechnology in a medical context:
It’s such an insanely profitable opportunity that I’ve created more than X digital courses during my time as an online entrepreneur. Many of these courses have supported me with a lifestyle that would be envied by some of Silicon Valley’s most successful CEOs. And several of them have made me millions, like this one: After 20+ years of online entrepreneurship, why have I invested so much time creating and selling my own courses?The answer is simple…Before you let any preconceived (and most likely false) notions about this industry creep into your brain, allow me to share…Why I think online learning is the PERFECT business…
Your gut is a bustling and thriving alien colony. They number in their trillions and include thousands of different species. Many of these microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea and eukarya, were here long before humans, have evolved alongside us and now outnumber our own cells many times over. Indeed, as John Cryan, a professor of anatomy and neuroscience at University College Cork, rather strikingly put it in a TEDx talk: “When you go to the bathroom and shed some of these microbes, just think: you are becoming more human.”
A new study has shown that a common cholesterol medication could help to slow the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The research, which was undertaken by scientists in Sweden, suggests that statin drugs could reduce congestion in the brain that leads to cognitive decline. Statins are used to help lower bad cholesterols in the blood known as low-density lipoproteins (LDL). Using data from the Swedish Registry for Cognitive/Dementia Disorders, the researchers the effects of statins on pathways in the brain
For Alzheimer’s Sufferers, Brain Inflammation Ignites a Neuron-Killing “Forest Fire” For decades researchers have focused their attacks against Alzheimer’s on two proteins, amyloid beta and tau. Their buildup in the brain often serves as a defining indicator of the disease.
A Brain Injury Removed My Ability To Perceive Time. Here’s What It’s Like In a World Without It Getty Images/mikkelwilliam I slumped in a wheelchair in my doctor’s office. The clock above the door ticked erratically, as if someone outside the room was winding the gears forward and then turning...
George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety. You have likely felt anxiety inside your chest or stomach, and your brain usually doesn’t hurt when you’re...
Getty Images Scientists have known for years that there’s a “second brain” of autonomous neurons in your long, winding human digestive tract—but that’s about where their knowledge of the so-c…
George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety. You have…
The synapse (illustrated) is the gap between the outgoing wire, or axon, of one nerve cell and the receiving wire, or dendrite, of the next. Nerve cells send chemical messages across these gaps. (I…
Monica Ramos It’s 1:02 p.m. Do you know what your brain is doing? If the answer is trawling the bowels of the internet instead of finishing those spreadsheets, it might be time to step away from yo…
Myles Tan/Unsplash Imagine shining a flashlight at a wall in a dark, empty room. If you walk toward the wall, the light will contract. The closer you get to the wall, the smaller and more concentra…
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Getty Images Recently, a colleague and I were lamenting the process of growing older and the inevitable increasing difficulty of remembering things we want to remember. That becomes particularly annoying when you attend a conference or a learning seminar and find yourself forgetting the entire session just days later. But then my colleague told me about the Ebbinghaus…
Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those states the distracted brain, the frightened brain, the nourished brain, etc. to spotlight what is going on in our heads and how it impacts our bodies.
Recently, a colleague and I were lamenting the process of growing older and the inevitable increasing difficulty of remembering things we want to remember. That becomes particularly annoying when you attend a conference or a learning seminar and find yourself forgetting the entire session just days later.
This year, we couldn’t stop hearing about how ChatGPT was going to change the world. But, has it? Humans have finally done the work we’ve only read about in sci-fi novels. Computers can now write poetry (sort of) like Emily Dickinson, create works of art (sort of) like Vincent van Gogh, and write books on Marxist philosophy. So why do our lives feel relatively unchanged?
Emilio Duro in one of his best-known conferences called “Optimism and Enthusiasm” says that 99% of everything we worry about are things that have never happened to us nor will they ever happen. If we think carefully, it is true, because much of our suffering and its causes are in our brain, and what really happens is that we are afraid to suffer.
The Brutal Truth of What Zoom Calls Do To Your Brain, According to New Yale ResearchGetty ImagesWe’re years into the pandemic-driven explosion in remote work and, while most of us have gotten used to having many more remote meetings, they still seem a little awkward.There’s the uncertainty about...
Getty Images Scientists have known for years that there’s a “second brain” of autonomous neurons in your long, winding human digestive tract—but that’s about where their knowledge of the so-called abdominal brain ends.
In the US, a 2016 Gallup poll found that the majority of schools want to start teaching code, with 66 percent of K-12 school principals thinking that computer science learning should be incorporate…
Afriandi/Moment RF/Getty Images Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each epi…
AleksandarGeorgiev/Getty Images If you’re feeling a bit brain-fogged these days, you might not be wrong to blame it on the heat. Several summers back, researchers in Boston studied young adul…
Aim to eat two servings of fish per week to get your fill of brain-protecting omega-3 fatty acids. Image Credit: LauriPatterson/E+/GettyImages There’s more to keeping your brain sharp than cr…
Photo Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin. An individually trained semantic decoder translated brain patterns on functional MRI (fMRI) into continuous streams of text, a small study sh…
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