Posts Tagged ‘Brain’

Modern Life Causes Brain Overload, Study Finds.


Through email, the internet, television and other media, people are deluged with around 100,500 words a day – equivalent to 23 words per second, researchers claim.
Scientists from the University of San Diego, California, who conducted the research, believe that the information overload may be having a [...]

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Brain Scan Used In Murder Sentencing For First Time.


A defendant’s fMRI brain scan has been used in court for what is believed to be the first time.
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Brain scan evidence that the defense claimed shows the defendant’s brain was psychopathic was allowed into the sentencing portion of a murder trial in Chicago, Science reported Monday. Brian Dugan, who had been convicted of [...]

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A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind


Tim Barribeau writes on io9.com
By placing electrode grids inside patients’ skulls, researchers at the Mayo Clinic have created a way for people to type words using only their brainwaves. It’s a major breakthrough for brain-computer interface research.
The experiments were undertaken on patients who already had electrodes in their brain to monitor epilepsy. Readings were taken [...]

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