August 2, 2015
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amazon, brain-to-brain interfaces., business, Business News, connectome, connectomics, consciousness, emotions, Hotels, human-rights, intelligence, medicine, mental-health, neurophysiology, optogenetics, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, top five neuroscience discoveries of the year, travel, vacation
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The year-end roundup has become an annual tradition here at The Connectome. In 2012 and 2013, we broke down the top five most fascinating, transformative, implication-riddled neuroscience discoveries of the year.
And now we’re back to do the same for 2014.
This year has seen a lot of steps forward in many of the areas we predicted – including optogenetics, connectomics, and brain-to-brain interfaces. It’s also brought some discoveries that seemed to come utterly out of the blue, and that may change the way we look at some of neuroscience’s most central questions.
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5. Brain-to-Brain Transmission of Words
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Click link below for article and narritive of the countdown:
http://theconnecto.me/2014/12/the-top-5-neuroscience-breakthroughs-of-2014/
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March 29, 2013
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amazon, anxiety, asking the right questions, brain, business, climate, connectomics, depression, Drugs, functional networks, gaming, Health, high I.Q., Hotels, I.Q., intelligence, intrepid reader, Journal of Neuroscience, learning, measurable differences, mental-health, neurophysiology, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, the connectome, travel, vacation, videogames
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Where in the brain, exactly, is intelligence? Is a high I.Q. just a result of a flawed test – or do high-I.Q. brains have specific, measurable differences from others? Answers await, Intrepid Reader – but first we have to make sure we’re asking the right questions.
Let’s start with the big news: a study just published in the Journal of Neuroscience reports that when a certain area of the frontal lobe has unusually wide and active connectivity, a higher I.Q. tends to follow. The trouble is, though, that a high I.Q. only reflects certain types of mental abilities – so what this discovery really means is that a certain functional network in the brain plays a major role in certain kinds of smart thinking.
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http://theconnecto.me/2012/08/brains-and-brilliance/
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February 5, 2013
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amp, article requests, biology, brains, business, climate, connectome, Connectome Q&A, connectomics, consciousness, evolution, Facebook, first-ever official Connectome Q&A, Future, imaging, incoming questions, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, queries, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, Twitter, vacation
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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 the full treatment it deserves.
So for today’s Q&A, I’ve decided to focus on just one question. That doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten the others, though – we keep everything archived, and we’ll be doing plenty more Q&As in the future. So keep sending those neuroscience queries and article requests our way.
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http://theconnecto.me/2012/11/qa-can-we-preserve-our-brains-after-death/
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January 26, 2013
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business, climate, connectomics, datasets free online for everyone, Future, Health, human-rights, imaging, learning, medicine, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, paradigm shift, peer reviewed journals, plos one, PNAS, politics, research, Science, Science News, science world, science world by storm, subscription fees, technology, travel, vacation
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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 behind exorbitant paywalls, the gloves are finally coming off. Thousands of researchers are fighting back by boycotting publishers, submitting their papers to open-access journals like PLOS ONE and PNAS, and – most excitingly of all – making their datasets freely available online, for everyone.
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http://theconnecto.me/2012/11/science-fights-back-with-open-access/
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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 behind exorbitant paywalls, the gloves are finally coming off. Thousands of researchers are fighting back by boycotting publishers, submitting their papers to open-access journals like PLOS ONE and PNAS, and – most excitingly of all – making their datasets freely available online, for everyone.
