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Future potential of brain chip is limitless after man. A large body of research links neuroticism with poorer health and conscientiousness with superior health. But where the highspeed electrical circuitry of the brain is also disturbed, optogenetic research, especially when enhanced by emerging wireless microchip technology, could offer new routes to treatment. The trance caused by regarding fixedly a gleaming point produces in the brain, in his. In 2012, a group of researchers wanted to study migraine headaches and so turned to brain freeze as a model. Im emily, chief curiosity correspondent for the field museum in chicago. Ferris jabr, one of my favourite science writers, has an intriguing longform article up at scientific american. In it he expertly guides you through a series of research that show why naps, vacations, meditation and other mental breaks unfill your cluttered brain and allow it to run optimally. The scientific american book of the brain by editors of. The latest episode goes right to the source of the museum specimens that usually take center stagea fossil hunting expedition.
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