by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain plasticity — the ability to change based on experience and time — holds promise for wide-ranging advances in health and medical technology. In the field of robotics, intentional brain rewiring enables breaching the brain-machine interface. In short,...
by Bruce Brown | November 22, 2017 | General News, Health
Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the fifth leading cause of death among people 65 years of age and older. Approximately 5.4 million Americans have this irreversible, incurable, progressive disease,...
by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2017 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence machine learning technologies significantly enhance research potential, provided that the data is good. Neural networks that mimic human learning, pattern recognition, and data analysis plow through massive amounts of data at astonishing speeds...
by Kimberly Houston | November 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you’re among the millions of viewers who’ve tuned into the Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” you’ve seen the character Eleven use her telekinetic powers to liberate herself and her friends from the Hawkins lab goons, all using the power of her mind....
by Kimberly Houston | November 7, 2017 | General News, Health
One persistent myth in popular culture about the human brain is that we only use 10% of it. In fact, scientists have found that most of the human brain is actively in use over the course of a normal day. But that doesn’t mean we can’t improve brain function with...
