This image is part of a stress test. For some individuals, these two dolphins may appear slightly different. This is an indicator of stress. The brains of individuals undergoing stress often have enhanced activity wherein they notice finer details. Final exams are one progenitor of stress.
It has long been observed that [...]
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Brainbow: Purty, purty neurons
Posted in Brain, Imaging, Techniques on Nov 22nd, 2007
Neuroimaging is a rapidly growing aspect of neuroscience with lots of new toys to view the active structures of the brain during as a result of different stimuli. But this new technique takes it to a new level. There are great pictures of hippocampal neurons from the “brainbow” mouse.
Stanford’s online-medical ezine has a [...]
Music and the Brain
Here are an amazing number of stories that deal with the notion of music and language. Diana Deutch from UCSD discusses her studies how infants that are raised in different language context will have differing abilities to acquire perfect pitch. She demonstrates that children that have a tonal language (such [...]
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