Washington: Saying that he wanted the next job-creating discoveries to happen not in India or China, but the US, President Barack Obama has unveiled a $100 million initiative to unlock the "enormous mystery" of the human brain.
"I don't want the next job-creating discoveries to happen in China or India or Germany. I want them to happen right here, in the United States of America," the president said on Tuesday in an event in the East Room of the White House.
"And that's part of what this BRAIN Initiative is about," he said referring to the initiative, dubbed Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies.
"That's why we're pursuing other 'grand challenges' like making solar energy as cheap as coal or making electric vehicles as affordable as the ones that run on gas," Obama said....
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12:30 AM, Apr 04, 2013
According to the latest health update by the Singapore hospital treating the Delhi gangrape survivor, the 23-year-old has suffered significant brain injury and is struggling against odds for survival. The medical bulletin issued by Mount Elizabeth Hospital at 11.00 am read, "The patient continues to remain in an extremely critical condition. She is still receiving treatment at... Intensive Care Unit. Our medical team's investigations upon her arrival at the hospital...
11:08 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Scientists have created the first ever map of how the brain organises the thousands of images that come flooding in through our eyes every day. ...
12:14 PM, Dec 26, 2012
A doctor-patient relationship built on trust and empathy has much more going on than merely putting patients at ease -- it helps the brain beat pain and stress. ...
09:26 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Physicist Albert Einstein's brain, though of average size, contained an unusually high number of folds which may have provided the genius with the ability to think in "extraordinary ways", scientists claim. ...
01:27 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Smoking 'rots' the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to a new study. Researchers from the King's College London in brain tests and analysis of health and lifestyle data of a group of over-50s found that smoking affects the brain negatively even more than high blood pressure and obesity. ...
12:46 PM, Nov 26, 2012
The structure and the growth of the Universe may be similar to that of human brain and the Internet, a new study has found. ...
11:11 AM, Nov 26, 2012
Sydney: Nano particles could prevent the immune system from attack of multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating nerve disease diagnosed between 20 and 40 years, according to a finding. MS affects any area of the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord, damaging the myelin sheath, which protects the nerve cells, slowing down or halting exchange of nerve signals. The symptoms vary from mild limb numbness to paralysis and blindness. "This finding...
02:26 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Washington: Physicist Albert Einstein's brain had an "extraordinary" prefrontal cortex - unlike those of most people - which may have contributed to his remarkable genius, a new study has claimed. According to the study led by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk, portions of Einstein's brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities. Falk and his colleagues...
04:54 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Pueblo: A Colorado boy who survived three years without a brain has died. Nickolas Coke, of Pueblo, was born with only a brain stem, a condition known as anencephaly. The National Center for Biotechnology Information says most babies born with anencephaly live only a few days. The center says it occurs in 1 out of 10,000 births. Nickolas' grandmother, Sherri Kohut, tells KOAA-TV that she believes Nickolas came down with...
02:58 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Washington: Scientists have found a population of neurons that help in measuring time, suggesting that there is no "central clock" in the brain to rely upon for all tasks involving timing. Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) developed a task in which monkeys could only rely on their internal sense of the passage of time. Their task design eliminated all external cues which could...
02:40 AM, Nov 01, 2012
It's Halloween on Wednesday those who are heading for the parties are busy picking out their scary or bizarre costumes. But for those who aren't, they can dim the lights and create their own spookfest with some scary movies. Here are some all time favourites. ...
11:47 AM, Oct 31, 2012
New York: The most common and aggressive brain tumour grows by turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which can continuously replicate and regrow, a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher has found. These stem cells can regrow a tumour with only a handful of cells left behind which explains why the tumours, called glioblastomas, are so difficult to treat, said study researcher Inder Verma, a molecular biologist at...
03:23 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Brian Lara has been named brand ambassador of Bangladesh Premier League franchise Chittagong Kings. ...
02:31 PM, Oct 16, 2012
London: Here is why you should avoid people who annoy you. Scientists have discovered that being in the company of annoying people slows the rate at which the mind processes movement. Whether you like someone or not can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the University of Southern California. Most of the time, watching someone else move causes a 'mirroring' effect - that is,...
03:02 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Karachi: A waterborne parasite known as Naegleria fowleri, brain eating amoeba, has killed 10 people in the Pakistan's financial hub in recent months prompting an emergency meeting of health and water department officials. Sindh Health Minister Sagheer Ahmed said that 10 deaths had been confirmed from the brain eating amoeba since July including three this month and most of them were young people who used public swimming pools. "The meeting...
02:32 AM, Oct 10, 2012
Washington: Researchers led by an Indian-origin investigator are testing the suitability of a synthetic cannabinoid drug - dexanabinol - for curing brain cancer. Preliminary tests show that it kills cultured cancer cells derived from many tumour types, a US report says. Additional research in Santosh Kesari's neuro-oncology lab at the University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, demonstrated the drug's anti-cancer effects in patient-derived brain cancer cell lines. Kesari...
05:36 PM, Sep 26, 2012
London: The appetite centres of children's brains light up when they are shown advertising images such as the McDonald's logo, a study reveals. Researchers revealed that the same areas do not respond to well-known logos that are not to do with food, The Independent reported. It suggests that fast-food firms are tapping into the reward areas of the brain, and that these develop before the regions that provide self-control, leading...
04:40 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Los Angeles: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has announced that it has completed "brain transplant" on Mars rover Curiosity. As its main and backup computers have been successfully upgraded with new software after a four-day effort, Curiosity is now a big step closer to begin its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars, according to the JPL. Curiosity has been on the surface...
01:55 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Washington: The long term alcohol abuse affects the brain differently in men and women, a new study has claimed. Clinical and Experimental Research by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, suggests that with abstinence, women recover their white matter brain volume more quickly than men. In previous research, alcoholism has been associated with white matter pathology. White matter forms the connections between neurons,...
02:30 AM, Aug 11, 2012
