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- This Is Your Brain on Silence http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-is-your-brain-on-silence-rp 3 comments
- This Is Your Brain on Silence http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-your-brain-on-silence 71 comments
- Terminal spreading depolarization and electrical silence in death of human brain http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.25147/full 12 comments
- This is your brain on silence http://m.nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-your-brain-on-silence 6 comments cogsci
- How the brain hears the sound of silence http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100210124759.htm 12 comments science
- How deep brain stimulation silenced cravings http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180312-how-electronic-brain-stimulation-silenced-food-cravings 4 comments science
- Silencing brain cells with yellow and blue light http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100106193438.htm 10 comments cogsci
- Can retraining the brain help silence tinnitus? Some scientists are trying to find out https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/tinnitus-treatment-research-1.7100837 17 comments health
- DeSantis Seeks To Silence Brain Cancer Patient Speaking Out About Her Abortion https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/desantis-brain-cancer-patient-abortion-1235128999/ 93 comments politics
- AI Ethicist at Google Brain speaks out against silencing; gets told that she has now resigned https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical 19 comments technology
- Brain's response to threat silenced when we are reminded of being loved and cared for http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/1880/20141108/brains-response-to-threat-silenced-when-we-are-reminded-of-being-loved-and-cared-for.htm 190 comments science
- [RobinLehner] Never had silence and my brain is now fully broken that there is no return. https://x.com/RobinLehner/status/1867777010451222937 384 comments hockey
- Northwestern U's novel gene-silencing RNA drug shows promise in glioblastoma - Medicine made with real gold nanoparticle cores which can cross the blood-brain barrier to help deliver siRNA to treat brain cancer. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/a-novel-gene-silencing-rna-drug-attached-to-a-gold-core-shows-promise-brain-cancer 6 comments science
- Book alleges NFL -- for 20 years -- used influence to silence research suggesting link between football and brain damage http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9745797/new-book-league-denial-says-nfl-used-resources-power-two-decades-deny-football-link-brain-damage 438 comments nfl
- A classic psychedelic, similar to LSD, psilocybin and mescalin, was found to activate a cell type in the brain that silences other neighboring neurons, a result that provides insight into how such drugs reduce anxiety, according to a new study in mice and rats. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/psychedelics-excite-cells-hippocampus-reduce-anxiety 15 comments science
- Scientists discover sleep “reset” mechanism in the brain that prevents memory overload. Researchers found that a burst of neural silence in a specific part of the brain in mice, the hippocampus, allows neurons involved in memory to reset and prepare for new learning the following day. https://www.psypost.org/scientists-discover-sleep-reset-mechanism-in-the-brain-that-prevents-memory-overload/ 31 comments science
- An epigenetic editor to silence genes: in a study with mice, researchers find molecular-editing tool that’s small enough to be delivered to the brain shuts down the production of proteins that cause prion diseases, a rare but deadly group of neurodegenerative disorders. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334 11 comments science
- Martino Unstrung: A Brain Mystery (2008) - Neuropsychologist Paul Broks travels America in search of the soul of legendary jazz guitarist Pat Martino who was brutally silenced by memory stripping brain surgery. Tracing his remarkable comeback from complete amnesia to the peak of artistry [1:22:27] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuDSU9lQxw 6 comments documentaries
- Silencing gut pain without pain killers by surgically removing specific populations of sensory nerves that communicate between internal organs, such as the bladder and gut, and the brain, without impacting other functions in the body https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2022/09/17/silencing-gut-pain-without-pain-killers/ 5 comments science
- Study reveals brain circuit responsible for cocaine withdrawal-induced anxiety and relapse-related. The study shows the role of a ventral area dopamine projection to amygdala for cocaine induced anxiety, but not reward/sensitization. Silencing it prevents anxiety during protracted cocaine withdrawal https://www.som.uci.edu/news_releases/Brain_circuit_responsible_for_cocaine_withdrawal_relapse.asp 24 comments science
- Researchers mapped what's happening in our brains when we imagine music – when we think about music in silence. Their methodology also reveals a new way to study the neuroscience of imagination. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/neuroscience-of-imagined-music 7 comments science
- Lip-reading in silence activates the brain's auditory cortices, which create a synchronized representation of what the sound would be like based on visual cues. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/12/19/jneurosci.1101-19.2019 8 comments science
- Scientists identify brain circuitry that is activated by novelty and underlies memory formation. Temporally silencing neurons during object exploration led to a lack of recognition of the same object afterwards. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10484-7 5 comments science
- Reading silently didn't happen until the dark ages, when monks took a vow of silence. Before that, reading was done aloud, which is why the Romans had no punctuation and instead, chanted words to rhythms. Reading silently uses an entirely different part of the brain. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9804/ip.html 472 comments books
- Scientists successfully silence the extra twenty-first chromosome in Down syndrome brain cells, resulting in normal development. [xpost: /r/sciencemadesimple] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7462/full/nature12394.html 40 comments science
- Single drug treatment silences the mutated gene responsible for Huntington's disease in mouse & primate models. Treatment improved motor and cognitive function, blocked brain atrophy and increased lifespan in severe Huntington's disease models. http://neurosciencenews.com/dna-drug-reverse-huntingtons-disease-symptoms-antisense-oligonucleotides-aso/ 6 comments science