This is Your Brain on Rhythm: Where Freud, Nas, the Grateful Dead and Neuroscience Meet
Micro Implants Are Learning the Brain’s Language to Heal the Body
The mind has a language of its own, and Jeff Ashe is trying to figure out what exactly it is saying.
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Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller
GE Scientists are Building a Wearable Brain Imaging Helmet
GE scientists are working on a wearable, high-resolution imaging “helmet” that would allow doctors to observe the brain on the cellular level. The portable device could also allow doctors to study motor activity in the brain, since patients will be able to move around as their brains are being imaged.
Head Health Challenge Winners Use Virtual Reality Goggles, 3D Printed "Microlattice" to Spot and Prevent Brain Injuries
Brittany Singh: How Can We Stay Smarter Than Machines?
Nadeem Ishaque: Imaging the Brain in Real-Time
Janet Crawford: Innovation’s Neural Paradox
No Cure But a Wish to Know: We Want to Know if Brain Disease Will Strike
There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, no definitive test and no way to prevent it. Yet when asked, an overwhelming number of people around the world say they want to know whether they are at risk. “I was surprised by the consistency and strength of that need,” says Ben Newton, who leads the neurology unit at GE Healthcare Life Sciences. “This strength of feeling is rare for a disease that we cannot treat.”
The Art of Science: Take a Look at the Future of Brain Imaging
Three decades ago, engineers at GE research labs in Niskayuna, NY, built one of the first magnetic resonance machines and peered inside a colleague’s head. The result was the world’s first MRI image of the human brain. “This was an exciting time,” says John Schenck, a lead scientist on the project and also the test’s subject. “We worried that we would get to see a big black hole in the center. But we got to see my whole brain.”