Tag: Brains

Germ Communities in Our Gut Talk to Our Brain

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There are trillions of microbes inside the human body, and University College Cork professor Dr John Cryan’s studies indicate that these germ communities appear to influence both the brain and its behaviors. Since that groundbreaking and contested 2014 announcement, much more research has continued to support the idea that the human microbiome impacts depression, dementia, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and even Parkinson’s disease. All of this …

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New Mind-Uploading Start-Up Can Only Preserve “Fresh” Brains

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Y Combinator start-up Nectome believes they’re capable of backing up the mind for future digitization. Their process involves preserving every microscopic detail of the brain with a new, advanced embalming process paired with cryonics. It’s the ability to keep the connectome intact, or the web of synapses that connect neurons, that sets them apart from others pursuing similar preservation. As Technology Review points out though, …

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Keeping Up With the Machines, Elon Musk’s New Program

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It’s been a week now since serial entrepreneur (and futurist) Elon Musk announced the launch of Neuralink Corp., and to be honest, it’s still on our minds. With this new venture, Musk proposes developing a technology (known as “neural lace”) that would potentially implant electrodes into human brains, allowing us to keep up with the advancement of machines—even uploading and downloading thoughts or fight brain …

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