<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : brain : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2009, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : brain : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Legal Brain: How Does the Brain Make Judgments about Crimes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new imaging study reveals which area of the brain plays a key role in these cognitive processes.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/91270/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/91270/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[See What Other See Through Brain Imaging]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brain Imaging test results suggest that it may soon be possible to reconstruct a picture of a person&#8217;s visual experience from measurements of brain activity alone. It may even be possible to &#8220;see&#8221; someone else&#8217;s dream.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53384/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53384/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Right Brain vs. Left Brain:  Creativity Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being creative or artistic doesn&#8217;t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world. <br/>Creative people use the RIGHT side of their brains more than the LEFT. Take the test and find out if your brain is RIGHT for a creative career.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29876/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29876/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[First phase of simulated brain complete]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have been able to recreate 'thoughts and memories' for a small part of the brain, and think that scaling the project to a full brain is <i>only a question of money.</i>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/109115/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/109115/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Area Of Brain That Makes A 'People Person' Discovered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered that whether someone is a 'people-person' may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater the concentration of brain tissue in certain parts of the brain, the more likely they are to be a warm, sentimental person.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/115917/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/115917/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Toys Read Brain Waves]]></title><description><![CDATA[A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18493/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18493/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial brain could be reality in just 10 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry Makram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain. 'It is not impossible to build a human brain. We can do it in 10 years,' he told the conference.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/128792/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/128792/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Special 'vitamin' can prevent baby brain disorders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have found a special supplement that can prevent a common brain disorder in babies, if women take it during pregnancy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/101363/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/101363/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How the brain works]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long (23 min) but very interesting talk on how the brain works by exploring what happens when connections are broken. From one of my favorite websites www.ted.com]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43817/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43817/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Study helps unlock how the brain sees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Figuring out how the brain recognizes objects is an important step in building robots that can see. What seems a simple task, recognizing that a sleeping dog and a running dog are both dogs is something that computers can't duplicate. New research is looking to change that.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/76168/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/76168/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ice cream really can control your brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before you flip open that tub of Ben and Jerry's, be aware that ice cream really can control your brain and say &quot;eat me.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/133324/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/133324/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Living life to the full, the girl with only half a brain takes her first steps]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Cordelia Cowsill was born, her future looked bleak indeed. She was suffering from an incurable genetic condition for which the only possible hope was to have half her brain removed. Doctors warned her parents, Amanda and Martyn Cowsill, that their daughter would never walk, talk, cry or smile like a normal child - even if she survived.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45975/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45975/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smoking during a brain scan is not easy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/99537/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/99537/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface]]></title><description><![CDATA[Futurists and science-fiction writers speculate about a time when brain activity will merge with computers.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81467/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81467/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion: your brain stitches it together until it seems continuous. But what happens when it goes wrong..]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/134934/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/134934/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mouse brain simulated on computer]]></title><description><![CDATA[US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer. In other news, you can simulate the brain of Carlos Mencia with a small piece of rock.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18419/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18419/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Brain on Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Say you have a load of donated food to deliver to an orphanage. But due to circumstances beyond your control, you're forced to make a hard choice: give some of the children enough to stave off hunger for several days and let the rest go hungry, or evenly distribute a smaller amount so that each child feels full for just a few hours. See how the brain wrestles with such morally charged tradeoffs.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61422/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61422/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Surgeons repair Ella-Grace Honeyman's brain with superglue]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British toddler with an extremely rare medical condition has flown to New York for an operation to repair her damaged brain with superglue. Ella-Grace Honeyman, aged 17 months, was born with vein of Galen malformation, which causes tiny holes in the brain&#8217;s main blood vessels and affects only a few hundred babies worldwide each year.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82486/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82486/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial brain cells could treat Parkinson's]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artificial brain cell that could be used to treat diseases such as Parkinson's has been created by scientists.<br/><br/>The 'delivery electrode' works in the same way as nerve cells in the brain by releasing neurotransmitters.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/127150/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/127150/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain Eating Amoeba Are Becoming A Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently there is a problem with brain eating amoeba that may be getting gradually worse over the years . . . 6 deaths in 2007.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36886/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36886/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>