A major paradigm shift is taking the science world by storm. Open source is taking over. For more than a century, scientists have depended on peer-reviewed journals to keep them up to date on the latest research. But as many of these journals have raised their subscription fees to bank-breaking levels, and locked life-saving research [...]
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Science Fights Back With Open Access
November 16th, 2012 
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Posted in Brain News, Featured 
Tags: connectomics, imaging, learning, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, technology 
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Q&A: Can We Preserve Our Brains After Death?
November 2nd, 2012 The Connectome As promised, here’s the first-ever official Connectome Q&A! We’ve been getting lots of incoming questions on our Facebook and Twitter pages – some of them on the technical side; others of the more “general interest” variety. Most of these questions require pretty involved answers – and it’s important to me that each of them gets [...]
Posted in Featured Tags: biology, connectomics, consciousness, evolution, imaging, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, technology 2 Comments »
Brain Scans and Bold Plans: Our Interview with Matt Wall
October 28th, 2012 The Connectome Sometimes, a conversation takes you to places you never would’ve expected. Matt Wall and I struck up a chat about brain-scanning technology early this year, and he mentioned that he’d like to do an interview for The Connectome. Since he’s got 5+ years of published brain research under his belt, I jumped at the chance. [...]
Posted in Feature Stories, Featured Tags: drugs, emotions, fMRI, imaging, neuroanatomy, technology, therapy No Comments »
The Intelligence Network
April 10th, 2012 The Connectome Intelligence isn’t a single process – but it still depends on the coordinated activity of some specific brain areas, a new study reports. In one of the most sweeping surveys in neuroscience history, researchers put patients with various types of brain damage through a battery of cognitive tests, and pinpointed the neural correlates of “general [...]
Posted in Brain News, Featured Tags: functional networks, imaging, intelligence, neurophysiology, structural networks 1 Comment »
Forget Me Not
March 2nd, 2012 The Connectome Having trouble remembering where you left your keys? You can improve with a little practice, says a new study. It’s an idea that had never occurred to me before, but one that seems weirdly obvious once you think about it: people who train their brains to recall the locations of objects for a few minutes [...]
Posted in Brain News, Featured Tags: aging, fMRI, imaging, learning, memory, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, senses, vision No Comments »
Podcast 1 – Our Interview With Joshua Vogelstein
February 5th, 2012 The Connectome Here it is – the first Connectome podcast! Join Ben as he talks with Joshua Vogelstein, a leading connectomics researcher, about the Open Connectome Project, an international venture to make data on neural connectivity available to everyone, all over the world. It’s like Google Maps for your brain. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. [...]
Sacred Values
January 25th, 2012 The Connectome Principles on which we refuse to change our stance are processed via separate neural pathways from those we’re more flexible on, says a new study. Our minds process many decisions in moral “gray areas” by weighing the risks and rewards involved – so if the risk is lessened or the reward increased, we’re sometimes willing [...]
Posted in Brain News Tags: emotions, ethics, fMRI, imaging, morality, neurophysiology, psychology, science to the rescue! 4 Comments »Clarke's Third Law
November 8th, 2011 The Connectome Today I want to take a break from breaking news and tell you about the new love of my life: my Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset. This thing costs $299, and it is worth every penny. It uses 14 sensors positioned around my scalp to create a wireless EEG interface between my brain and my computer. I can move objects [...]
Neuron Holograms
August 18th, 2011 The Connectome A new technique will allow us to watch hundreds of neurons in 3D, in real time, at a resolution that’s 50 times greater than before. The technology, known as digital holographic microscopy (DHM), was imported into neuroscience from materials science. It measures differences in the wavelengths of harmless lasers as they travel through a certain region of the [...]
