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- What Grain Is Doing To Your Brain http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/11/14/what-grain-is-doing-to-your-brain/ 23 comments
- French firm Robeauté, will start human trials on its grain-of-rice sized microbot that will move through brain tissue at 3 mm/min to perform micro-biosipies, more safely than a human brain surgeon. https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/01/size-of-a-grain-of-rice-robeaute-raises-e27-2-million-to-transform-neurosurgery-with-microrobots/ 16 comments futurology
- Robots the size of rice grains aim to revolutionize brain surgery https://www.techspot.com/news/106402-robots-size-rice-grains-aim-revolutionize-brain-surgery.html 16 comments upliftingnews
- A piece of your brain the size of a grain of sand . . . http://ponderabout.com/archives/2467/brain_specs_(no._1).aspx 6 comments cogsci
- Nintendo Brain Training, Math, and a Grain of Salt http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/09/25/nintendo-brain-training-and-math-in-uk-schools/ 2 comments technology
- New technology for wireless charging can make implants as small as a grain of rice. They could soon make brain implants possible. https://theconversation.com/new-type-of-in-body-device-could-be-charged-wirelessly-27490 4 comments science
- “Brain fingerprinting” might be able to predict mental health problems. Brains scans at regular intervals not only provides fine-grained information about adolescent brain development, but it can also better pinpoint the emergence and onset of mental ill health. https://www.psypost.org/2022/08/brain-fingerprinting-of-adolescents-might-be-able-to-predict-mental-health-problems-down-the-line-63679 23 comments science
- AI researchers create largest neuronal map ever - of a piece of mouse brain the size of a grain of salt. The atlas, published in March in Nature, shows not only how these neurons connect, but also how they function as the brain processes information. https://spectrumnews.org/news/artificial-intelligence-project-could-yield-clues-about-autism/ 11 comments science
- A Harvard team helped create the largest 3D brain reconstruction to date, showing in vivid detail each cell and its web of connections in a piece of temporal cortex about half the size of a rice grain https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/the-brain-as-weve-never-seen-it/ 3 comments science
- Mediterranean diet (plant foods, olive oil, whole grains, moderate intake of red wine) inversely related to stroke, depression, cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. In comparison, Western diet (more processed foods and sugars) may result in an increased decline in certain brain functions. https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/study-finds-new-link-between-food-choices-depression-and-alzheimers-disease 3 comments science
- Researchers designed a microdevice the size of a grain of rice that is implanted into brains of patients with gliomas, a brain tumor, that in 2-3 hours administers tiny doses of up to 20 drugs into the tumors safely with no side effects to assess the effectiveness of responses to different drugs. https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/press-releases-detail?id=4515 3 comments science
- Human brain uses standard code for entire spectrum of emotions - “We discovered that fine-grained patterns of neural activity within the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with emotional processing, act as a neural code which captures an individual’s subjective feeling,” http://www.techtimes.com/articles/10219/20140712/human-brain-uses-standard-code-for-entire-spectrum-of-emotions-study.htm 137 comments science