<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 04:57:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Gehirn</category><category>Brain</category><category>Wissenschaft</category><category>Science</category><category>Experiment</category><category>Bilder</category><category>Gehirnleistung</category><category>Psychologie</category><category>Unterricht</category><category>Erkrankungen</category><category>Gedaechtnis</category><category>Bildung</category><category>Fun</category><category>Hippocampus</category><category>Politik</category><category>Anatomie</category><category>Stress</category><category>Demenz</category><category>Illusionen</category><category>Kosten</category><category>Lustig</category><category>Memory</category><category>Missdiagnosen</category><category>Publikationen</category><category>Art</category><category>Comics</category><category>Fernsehen</category><category>Kunst</category><category>TED</category><category>Amygdala</category><category>Documentary Analysis</category><category>EU</category><category>Geschichte</category><category>Happiness</category><category>Meme</category><category>Place Cells</category><category>Religion</category><category>Sceptic</category><category>Water</category><category>Autoritaet</category><category>Cajal</category><category>Contest</category><category>Cortex</category><category>Cotard</category><category>Criticism</category><category>Deepak Chopra</category><category>Emoto Masaru</category><category>Golgi</category><category>Homeopathie</category><category>Homeopathy</category><category>Internet</category><category>Neuroscience</category><category>Physik</category><category>Publishing</category><category>ResearchGate</category><category>AI</category><category>Alpbach</category><category>Angst</category><category>Bachbluetentheraphie</category><category>Bakterien</category><category>Bial</category><category>Biotrial</category><category>Books</category><category>Broca</category><category>Business</category><category>Cannabinoid Rezeptor</category><category>Computer</category><category>Computerspiele</category><category>Concept</category><category>Courses</category><category>DNA</category><category>Deep-learning</category><category>Doping</category><category>Education</category><category>Free-Access</category><category>Frontiers</category><category>Fußball</category><category>Gesundheitsleistungen</category><category>Heart</category><category>IGel</category><category>Imageing</category><category>Klinische Studie</category><category>Krankenkassen</category><category>Machine Learning</category><category>Music</category><category>Neuron</category><category>Personalized Medicine</category><category>Placebo</category><category>Prefrontal</category><category>Roboter</category><category>Sequencing</category><category>Speech</category><category>Sport</category><category>Star Wars</category><category>Statistics</category><category>TV</category><category>Tattoos</category><category>Whole-genome</category><category>parasite</category><title>Neuralethes </title><description>Blogging about the Brain, Science &amp;amp; Healthtech</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>96</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-8542738410552408034</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2021-08-30T13:22:20.806+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Courses</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Deep-learning</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Machine Learning</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Statistics</category><title>Free Machine Learning and Deep Learning Ressources &amp; Learning Classes</title><description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;As I am preparing a new class for medical students I thought the Ressources may be useful for quite a number of individuals. There are a great many free and excellent classes and resources on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistics and Data Science available.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Uj1IQeErStZqpsJ9LcgvKBaiN-etDdEhUhBsCaqKtrtepxB9s-w5hqQ6H6clvq6NPhSzbTIVeIFfTMFvf7ZrastCrkMgj8gu3eFbnchatHNBh0Aai_35Myk7DZKk8gHHm_4FyyJuemU/s2048/charles-deluvio-pjAH2Ax4uWk-unsplash.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1380&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2048&quot; height=&quot;216&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Uj1IQeErStZqpsJ9LcgvKBaiN-etDdEhUhBsCaqKtrtepxB9s-w5hqQ6H6clvq6NPhSzbTIVeIFfTMFvf7ZrastCrkMgj8gu3eFbnchatHNBh0Aai_35Myk7DZKk8gHHm_4FyyJuemU/s320/charles-deluvio-pjAH2Ax4uWk-unsplash.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Here is a list and please feel free to add to it in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://databookuw.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nathan Kutz&#39;s and Steven Brunton&#39;s excellent Online Course on Data-Driven Science and Engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/spring2021/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;UC Berkeley&#39;s&amp;nbsp; Full Stack Deep Learning Course 2021&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://c.d2l.ai/gtc2020/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The GTC2020 Tutorial - Dive into Deep Learning from Rachel Hu and Aston Zhang (AWS AI)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yann LeCun&#39;s &amp;amp; Alfredo Canziani&#39;s NYU great Course on Deep Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://course.fast.ai/&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Practical Deep Learning for Coders&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stanford-cs329s.github.io/syllabus.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Stanford&#39;s Machine Learning Systems Design Course 2021&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Some further inforessoruces:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot; https://www.kaggle.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; https://www.kaggle.com/&lt;/a&gt; || &lt;a href=&quot;https://ai.googleblog.com/&quot;&gt;https://ai.googleblog.com/&lt;/a&gt; || &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/&quot;&gt;https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/&lt;/a&gt; || &lt;a href=&quot;https://openai.com/&quot;&gt;https://openai.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;|| &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/&quot;&gt;https://github.com/&lt;/a&gt; ||&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://paperswithcode.com/&quot;&gt;https://paperswithcode.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;||&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://read.deeplearning.ai&quot;&gt;https://read.deeplearning.ai&lt;/a&gt; ||&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/2021/08/free-machine-learning-and-deep-learning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Uj1IQeErStZqpsJ9LcgvKBaiN-etDdEhUhBsCaqKtrtepxB9s-w5hqQ6H6clvq6NPhSzbTIVeIFfTMFvf7ZrastCrkMgj8gu3eFbnchatHNBh0Aai_35Myk7DZKk8gHHm_4FyyJuemU/s72-c/charles-deluvio-pjAH2Ax4uWk-unsplash.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-6562562332608416494</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-11-01T20:06:40.776+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brain</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hippocampus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Neuroscience</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Science</category><title>Brain &amp; Science Books for Christmas</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;There is a good chance you will be spending quite some time at home this Christmas. So why not read a popular science book? Here is a list of my recommendations. Feel free to add yours in the Comment section below&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; My Top 10 Brain books for Christmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Click the Books for the Amazon Link)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s start with Behavioural Economics - Nobel Prize Winner &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Richard Thaler&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; gets two books on the list with his accessible and intriguing way to explain economic decision-making&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/039335279X/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/145-1390146-7730558?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;pd_rd_i=039335279X&amp;amp;pd_rd_r=c9a88793-3e13-4258-b1e2-24720e76052e&amp;amp;pd_rd_w=Mu4vF&amp;amp;pd_rd_wg=n3gp3&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=ce6c479b-ef53-49a6-845b-bbbf35c28dd3&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=7067TRVBAHAZ539ZW7XD&amp;amp;psc=1&amp;amp;refRID=7067TRVBAHAZ539ZW7XD&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Misbehaving&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;312&quot; data-original-width=&quot;210&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUslUWE06S_TI8VTvQbtAg-qMCHByl8B2Tcol_UiA1N_oOe9qHwtVJPNSGvInAybbv9z23vNgoPZShFDULLIy8rfEcDgkZOoPyjmKQ_ZRaL86IQ4cJBMO18xjKyxglOQD-LG-2aL81bM/w135-h200/Misbehaving.JPG&quot; title=&quot;for the Christmas Tree&quot; width=&quot;135&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/dp/014311526X?psc=1&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=0341f622-1508-4712-8614-4588a55d8cf4&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=7YQ6KD3DB51PE30D6TQQ&amp;amp;pd_rd_wg=z0W0i&amp;amp;pd_rd_i=014311526X&amp;amp;pd_rd_w=pQjGe&amp;amp;pd_rd_r=daf68bbb-dc3a-4717-88fa-e8183e8fcc30&amp;amp;ref_=pd_luc_rh_ci_mcx_mr_huc_d_02_01_t_img_lh&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;302&quot; data-original-width=&quot;192&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgfNHSxE5z1XEYeniz7WOZ2AoFslB3Cwf3gv-5PTrFAUytx4rWQMQdIFPE_T9pO4zRhfGKkItj_mj9Ye6fizVkIrP3S50gFSq2y7HjrZpTg6JllogCHo7YHO8ppuCoN8jH9jTHhf_mvw/w127-h200/Nudge.JPG&quot; title=&quot;Brain Books for the Christmas Tree&quot; width=&quot;127&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Another Nobel Prize Winner with one of the best selling non-fiction classic of this century:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3ILK1V22N0M56&amp;amp;dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=thinking+fast+and+slow&amp;amp;qid=1604106908&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;sprefix=Thinking%2Cstripbooks%2C163&amp;amp;sr=1-2&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;300&quot; data-original-width=&quot;199&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORiFRuQX1BAOhQyuClBN5AMY9Vfrj-wJFoGEXtjkPS5JOe6FpHQc2h3pAq2SxoV63SuMMt7p8P4T_8_st1_rzNPTc81oQnivm8Qyg7lVzXnElTqzTSwF6q6wiK_E9R-2w1oomtf9Rkic/w133-h200/kahneman.JPG&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Last on the Behavioural Economics list is&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Predictably Irrational&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Dan Ariely&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/0061854549/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1604107246&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;318&quot; data-original-width=&quot;210&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRBMKAuyHFJWNdTLz1cttlsBj0C-zWktpwutK7r3ohY8gPib7WIFm0VQWZUi15Aug0dEX4NvqVTwC9WCZwm0xqnhCz4g500hU_U3H-am4HhZUDKakVtox0rrQDej1sIRM3HVH85H4Sdo/w132-h200/predictable.JPG&quot; width=&quot;132&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s change gears to some actual Neuroscience with&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gyorgy Buzsaki&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, who may not have (yet) a Nobel Prize, but he excels in making the most complex concepts of brain function accessible to everyone.&amp;nbsp; No easy read but of high quality:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoTableGrid&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border: none; text-align: center;&quot; title=&quot;What are the best brain books&quot;&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Let&#39;s continue with Neuroscience and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Dan Quiroga &lt;/i&gt;with a focus on Memory and Perception in &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;The Forgetting Machine&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944648542/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1&amp;amp;spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyNEZMMExRWDBONjFXJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNTM5OTM1SEFIQlAzSDVMMjEmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDk2OTMwMzJPUkJKQ1JONzNTVFgmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWwmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;308&quot; data-original-width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsKnWo71e66EonkYAIlE_VXFX_UXAnybpo0yujSybTmc0KcGAPBG2p-1Ba4ScCj_BQHHXFVu00PYubKDtPtFvpxwWXukZ2NIRSBvKnqyBCItm0rpT4AUXoS0wjQpQKmx_ejRWb8cAKto/w135-h200/theforgettingmachineJPG.JPG&quot; width=&quot;135&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Walking is not something you would necessarily associate with the brain but give &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shane O&#39;Maras&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&#39; book &lt;i&gt;&quot;&lt;b&gt;In Praise of Walking&lt;/b&gt;&quot;&lt;/i&gt; a chance to change your mind.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Walking-New-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0393652084/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VKSGPV9YWST6&amp;amp;dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=in+praise+of+walking&amp;amp;qid=1604108972&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;sprefix=In+prais%2Cstripbooks%2C168&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;305&quot; data-original-width=&quot;198&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzYNFL8GitchpB4w4J6u_4CsRf739sPg34LUK3YgIP4DarC4Ao4OuQ5TTJmguUXrFpc8sdxETcHITvPW2IwumBbOXNFHvbrsB3A-qj4YSrHfODhQmFjtMov7ZIS7AHOHIs3hM4T6_fFo/w130-h200/walking.JPG&quot; width=&quot;130&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;What about Genes? &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kevin Mitchell &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;provides an accessible way into the Nature vs. Nurture discussion on what shapes our individual brains.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Innate-How-Wiring-Brains-Shapes/dp/0691204152/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1604109233&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;311&quot; data-original-width=&quot;197&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKRncjHOK4Kh3rJRkToFO-0vDVGHTCJHY4DSCYx2bP8vR1BOlEgH_y09RaUWCIgfXcosS3nbVCiGS9-J3zZPISazd_hxOTTOP5KhfQZb5mvLof_1p3TkLBhwaZIDWybxJpzhdhBN3FPw/w127-h200/innate.JPG&quot; width=&quot;127&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;There is probably no (Philosophy) book on free will that does not upset me in one way or the other but &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gazzaniga &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;found a great middle-ground with &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Who&#39;s in Charge?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Charge-Free-Science-Brain/dp/0061906115/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29PHG8XWCK5MT&amp;amp;dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=who%27s+in+charge+gazzaniga&amp;amp;qid=1604107782&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;sprefix=Who%27s+in+Charge%2Cstripbooks%2C163&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;493&quot; data-original-width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlje9tAz48O900xe5-i476awxplQhleGo546Myr2xNlwCMmryQLAv4aJUuI5fo8KYgCh03gt49dpJY5Dp9Z8yNOr6Gh5m_PMc845EqCzTd754q2MzxnMNPVe2clEzMH5o6gu-RzQHlS0/&quot; width=&quot;156&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/2020/10/brain-science-books-for-christmas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUslUWE06S_TI8VTvQbtAg-qMCHByl8B2Tcol_UiA1N_oOe9qHwtVJPNSGvInAybbv9z23vNgoPZShFDULLIy8rfEcDgkZOoPyjmKQ_ZRaL86IQ4cJBMO18xjKyxglOQD-LG-2aL81bM/s72-w135-h200-c/Misbehaving.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Rockville, MD, USA</georss:featurename><georss:point>39.0839973 -77.1527578</georss:point><georss:box>-12.826948551208012 -147.46525780000002 90 -6.8402578000000034</georss:box></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-2708283797392823977</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-10-18T21:22:46.515+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">DNA</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Personalized Medicine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sequencing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Whole-genome</category><title>Personalized Whole Genome DNA Sequencing</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;What was an unimaginable feat 20 years ago is now accessible for everyone – Whole-genome DNA sequencing (WGS). I just got my first kit in the post so here is a short overview of what you may want to know as there has been quite some development as companies are trying to
find the right business model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;How does it normally work? You order a kit, spit in it, send it back, wait (quite a bit) for data and analysis.&amp;nbsp; The current WSG industry standard is 30X
sequencing that allows sufficient whole genome sequencing but may not catch de
novo mutations. For those, you may want higher coverage like 130X Whole-exome sequencing for
known targets. Generally, all options are based on 150bp paired-end reads (no worries if you don&#39;t know what that means).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;so to the options:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SYSuTlHYd_Jtgs9xyvR6WIK0HhtCeb-AsgEWISB-_eWcg4HvNpUR6KrwhCGkprIiWKB_FLbrUFNp_0gXlrpffCpqjR0WCviOaxNKe87DTkK55hvOKUFLoeCCLO5RK5LYYsT4C4AZLSk/s1200/nebula_genomics_logo_dna-sequencing.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;627&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SYSuTlHYd_Jtgs9xyvR6WIK0HhtCeb-AsgEWISB-_eWcg4HvNpUR6KrwhCGkprIiWKB_FLbrUFNp_0gXlrpffCpqjR0WCviOaxNKe87DTkK55hvOKUFLoeCCLO5RK5LYYsT4C4AZLSk/s320/nebula_genomics_logo_dna-sequencing.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nebula Genomics&lt;/a&gt; – discounted rates start at 300$
for 30X. They have a subscription-based business model so effective costs will
be higher depending on your choice and expertise in analyzing your DNA (30X + lifetime
support is 500$). If you want to have higher confidence they now offer also a
100X WGS for around 1000-1200+$.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8ODxacLlJ5R4mjn7ezJpYS5LL9pFh86WGTe2GX89Zaz-LtCi9_C_DMt6gKwcj17xQudTXr0_Gp3jxdM1R47aSEnz0QVm0ImLgZO0WWV_auTkorIpNSKykWZwZsSDaaA3BZ5Lrj2l7bM/s367/dante-labs-sequencing-dna-genetic-testing.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;160&quot; data-original-width=&quot;367&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8ODxacLlJ5R4mjn7ezJpYS5LL9pFh86WGTe2GX89Zaz-LtCi9_C_DMt6gKwcj17xQudTXr0_Gp3jxdM1R47aSEnz0QVm0ImLgZO0WWV_auTkorIpNSKykWZwZsSDaaA3BZ5Lrj2l7bM/s320/dante-labs-sequencing-dna-genetic-testing.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dantelabs.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dante Labs &lt;/a&gt;is a very attractive alternative to Nebula without
the subscription model (but higher upfront costs). Also ships internationally, additionally
offers a combined 30X WGS and 130X WES, and is a well-established leader in the
field.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieels-uZJD3IlTK7XdemSERUdD9naP9SlEl0dMSI2hALSFT4D06jaGhdgGAN_c8pnblWSrsbmnmyBVYZhXkQfXwZIlKGhhDls5KBpOKRRw7jIv8-jtbItXsNKYM2KnFRjD9mDKHCOmcdQ/s1020/Dante_labs_WGS-premium-V2_1020x574.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;574&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1020&quot; height=&quot;181&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieels-uZJD3IlTK7XdemSERUdD9naP9SlEl0dMSI2hALSFT4D06jaGhdgGAN_c8pnblWSrsbmnmyBVYZhXkQfXwZIlKGhhDls5KBpOKRRw7jIv8-jtbItXsNKYM2KnFRjD9mDKHCOmcdQ/w320-h181/Dante_labs_WGS-premium-V2_1020x574.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Both Dante and Nebula also offer DNA analysis services if you already
have had your DNA sequenced but not yet analyzed. Oh and you can download the raw data at any time (be prepared it&#39;s a lot of data).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBvkgEHn0zhVt1FFtFp726oecvpt0BkQWkpm66iPcnK2DpXz19OZk_FgrT7NcsyFmvNvHNzIvidY-VAT79dw4yhSgVhB5c1kas1c1QdqDqMutLNbnYrOO1kShAlQVsfeRBWoURTNNQ-4/s320/5eba9404937ff-5eba940493c0alogo%25402x.png+%25281%2529.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;124&quot; data-original-width=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBvkgEHn0zhVt1FFtFp726oecvpt0BkQWkpm66iPcnK2DpXz19OZk_FgrT7NcsyFmvNvHNzIvidY-VAT79dw4yhSgVhB5c1kas1c1QdqDqMutLNbnYrOO1kShAlQVsfeRBWoURTNNQ-4/s0/5eba9404937ff-5eba940493c0alogo%25402x.png+%25281%2529.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.veritasgenetics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;Veritas Genomics &lt;/a&gt;– originally my first choice as they were
the first player on the market however currently an uncertain option. Due to
their financial insecurity earlier they currently lack clear info on their
options. They also have an increased barrier as they require physician approval
and access to your raw files costs extra.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;To-customer DNA genome screening, DNA analysis,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/2020/10/personalized-whole-genome-dna-sequencing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SYSuTlHYd_Jtgs9xyvR6WIK0HhtCeb-AsgEWISB-_eWcg4HvNpUR6KrwhCGkprIiWKB_FLbrUFNp_0gXlrpffCpqjR0WCviOaxNKe87DTkK55hvOKUFLoeCCLO5RK5LYYsT4C4AZLSk/s72-c/nebula_genomics_logo_dna-sequencing.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-1208906401166179656</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-08-29T23:20:02.372+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Neuroscience</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Science</category><title>Innovative Neurotech Start-ups</title><description>Neuroscience driven technology holds great promise and provides a rich resource of inspiration towards an exciting future for consumers, patients, businesses, and entrepreneurs alike. Elon Musks&#39; recent announcement of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.neuralink.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Neuralink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and its enthusiastic goals has put Neuroscience again at center stage for translating innovative research into business ideas. Here, I will provide a small glimpse into rising startups and innovative ideas that you may never have heard of.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;-&amp;nbsp; Note I will focus on the innovative aspect of the idea or product and not evaluate the business model, science, team, product-, market-, or financing strategy,....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.secretchordlaboratories.com/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;76&quot; data-original-width=&quot;440&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdfWQjheN2eMdWv77tV6C8oqxcAuW1RvylqnF7q9HdpLHTt6AfCkGqJbW7ZhAxaorVM7Aned6zxZCUP0QSp0PqVCcpHwFxf64LggmzElHM3hJKi89TYZbXqJAb4tylEG_jmcGhN_IIzQB/s0/secretchord.JPG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.secretchordlaboratories.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Secret Chord Laboratories&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;- makes use of the insight into how our brains appreciate music. They aim to provide an Ai-driven model to predict how well sounds, songs, and music are received by the audience. A very timely translational effort that holds great business promises and will raise the ears in the music industry and in the world of advertising. Done properly by combining the right behavioral and physiological read-out measures and optimizing deep-learning algorithm&amp;nbsp; - a strategy that almost certainly will succeed. Let&#39;s just hope it will not result in an even more optimized and thus generic popular music industry but allows flexibility and noise to push forward new concepts of how we listen to music.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.investacure.com/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;138&quot; data-original-width=&quot;539&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJWxVQiSLkzAhc_U-emjPny5ZUwhJ8rpChyijNkQ0RQrdsTvsMLTnvyq2-F0pGTP9QA6RGEzrmxzdGlzfTLzLIU9nfqBUk_ZCli-0v9skER6Gyq-89WQaCDr4oqxNdkWlgngSL4ejI-VU/s0/investacure.JPG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Spare-change Investment is the newest hype for the Populus. Currently, you can&#39;t go a day without being bombarded by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.acorns.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;acorns&lt;/a&gt;. However, what we should be really talking about is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.investacure.com/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;InvestAcure&lt;/a&gt;. A model that could be a way forward to speed-up translational research efforts. It enables a unique investment opportunity for each of us while at the same time allows us to fight Alzheimer&#39;s disease dollar by dollar. Currently, their focus is on Alzheimer&#39;s but I hope to soon see an expansion around the globe and efforts towards other debilitating diseases. Check out their Intro &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/7w8O8ojEQPk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;video &lt;/a&gt;for more information.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gero.ai/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;306&quot; data-original-width=&quot;340&quot; height=&quot;196&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYnkNlWXdCkciR_FJkjjIKjtLEsgrgr6I-B_zw7DFsOAYkRcR8p7bupC-8Vbu0D9oIWbgSKIE3b7k9Yxap6L1-7w_aGzQEgXK11PF8aB71s6AIC0slFZUvcp3D2lrmJVW2S__Gkun8VnM/w218-h196/gero.JPG&quot; width=&quot;218&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In all fairness, most pharmaceutical players have by now realized the potential of repurposing registered drugs or failed drug candidates for other indications or more refined patient subpopulations. A&amp;nbsp; branch of the industry dedicated to predict receptor binding and optimize early drug-development by utilizing AI-powered platforms. Singapur-based&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gero.ai/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Gero&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;is a very recent addition to the Club. They join the forces that battle the challenges Alzheimer&#39;s Disease poses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginostics.com/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;76&quot; data-original-width=&quot;285&quot; height=&quot;119&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnx-e_JBF_pFXTGgdnog9kXgw33hyphenhyphencir8H-OOy5gpKGSDepFsV_5PeZzHVCWzzttns7iVmC247Zmg1MpX6tXaGutXyRVnfEml-khVfYx_dfoX23OQFatDktb3e3QlDTXiVXLS-PEK3iSOi/w445-h119/imaginostics.JPG&quot; width=&quot;445&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginostics.com/technology/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Imaginostics&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a prime example of translating research innovations towards patient-oriented business.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginostics.com/technology/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Imaginostics&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;new technology QUTE-CE pushes MRI technology forward. As such it allows clinicians to increase resolution and quantification of the vascular network in our bodies for improved treatment evaluation and hopefully earlier and more accurate diagnosis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.haloneuro.com/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;112&quot; data-original-width=&quot;246&quot; height=&quot;140&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVfF0sX1yRQKGe5DqKOh8oSqy0MsxdJApcb5NrplgE_7dVTqVM3mFLWk2hpbjgupMJnVOi6fS-C0P5hXlxTy6v1vq8155r9IWZgWyeCyVBpOjoorXUqOqc6No6SktbTAbz5Rg7Y8nXFWq/w308-h140/haloneuro.JPG&quot; width=&quot;308&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.haloneuro.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Halo Neuro&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- one of the bigger fish in the pond. In contrast to many other EEG-based headphone integrated systems, Halo Neuro integrates transcranial direct curr&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;ent stimulation into headphones and markets them towards sports aficionados, professional athletes and aspiring musicians. The aim here is to stimulate the motor cortex while you learn motoric skills or perform m&lt;/span&gt;otorically demanding tasks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://brinkbionics.com/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;199&quot; data-original-width=&quot;606&quot; height=&quot;127&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhWDd_lX8hy3HSXQZwj_iCj4r0oQVw6GnfmsjX09kpXP_CxFwlr_2fdmLnzDCSRE1PrB-cFIU0KN6I3hZ1qKLJOSim6uDtFHDc44ZD44EcThP9mXXRiSlpWNDhvJNh_P6CtszuHjBSvdH/w388-h127/impulse.JPG&quot; width=&quot;388&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s stay in the domain of sports. Rising faster than ever E-sports is on the rise with a market evaluation of many billions. The folks from &lt;a href=&quot;https://brinkbionics.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Brink Bionics&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;bring us a simple yet ingenious solution on how to cut reaction time. Instead of waiting for the finger to press the mouse button they directly harvest the signal at its source thus gaining those extra milliseconds that separate the victor from the loser.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;On a side note, it still baffles me that we rely on a 180-year-old invention when interacting with the PC. It&#39;s about time to replace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;our keyboards and mice&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;with new game-changers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sens.ai/&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;166&quot; data-original-width=&quot;247&quot; height=&quot;166&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_EfVYbSRsEkNFcSJWMkqmsGWL_xk-4AjsHxOH3ehyphenhyphen1A-gSn0h1DF8e0Gt6qTYZie4VvYLzUi91Pk4EV9BS95wwOfKylYLPbR4mITlLb-eKJ5CexEQmozUzle8VafZBArgV5GnQVZWVr-/w247-h166/sensai.JPG&quot; width=&quot;247&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Building on the successful concept of integrating headphones with Neurotech applications,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sens.ai/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sens.Ai&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;follows a slightly different path than Halo. Canadian Sens.ai combines EEG readings and infrared stimulation towards adaptive and individualized brain state changes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayiJfeIQiMSYVI_nadzEedwKYosEJjTxgG8Bqvo-Hrrx4aMuvlhlfe0i3bbqsccwLTtbw9Q26CX9jxfN3zOde4pZomVkpLYGapHs7yXH-S_4u_H_8clC8HlsbRv3MMpeFEzDc7bsqfnK-/s103/brainpower.JPG&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;75&quot; data-original-width=&quot;103&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayiJfeIQiMSYVI_nadzEedwKYosEJjTxgG8Bqvo-Hrrx4aMuvlhlfe0i3bbqsccwLTtbw9Q26CX9jxfN3zOde4pZomVkpLYGapHs7yXH-S_4u_H_8clC8HlsbRv3MMpeFEzDc7bsqfnK-/w82-h60/brainpower.JPG&quot; width=&quot;82&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68QRceaPtzpT-uDMduKNylsgfYa4J5YZgLwGjUEHe_oPeDwjGKr4kQGJXvSoqPmb7-4hH57gAdxtUJ_i_D1rscnC2EMhR6J-LAidwOu9gsVEzz3l8z6IjqvCB7hmayuRdO4Xawr6BW9zD/s145/daqri.JPG&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;38&quot; data-original-width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;48&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68QRceaPtzpT-uDMduKNylsgfYa4J5YZgLwGjUEHe_oPeDwjGKr4kQGJXvSoqPmb7-4hH57gAdxtUJ_i_D1rscnC2EMhR6J-LAidwOu9gsVEzz3l8z6IjqvCB7hmayuRdO4Xawr6BW9zD/w181-h48/daqri.JPG&quot; width=&quot;181&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two unfortunately not yet complementary companies that highlight the potential of virtual reality. A first-generation company&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://brain-power.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Brain Power &lt;/a&gt;utilizes Google glasses to improve social and educational knowledge in kids with autism and ADHD. On the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://daqri.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Daqri &lt;/a&gt;is a global leader for customized augmented environment technology.&amp;nbsp; In combination, the application of augmented reality via smart glasses would hold great promises for neuroscience-based applications and opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6gqph9x3L1w_iLuUTql4BDhLs8RhYPQKGSd8xdsykcZoM4E3VsgGiLJ0w52WJi9yZqnrmsz7uTfALjRnyeShzYiKKGelW4rtfVPySbowpaefvfR5eck5mtMH61QFtI60QFU3YWZF31mO/s114/kernel.JPG&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;114&quot; data-original-width=&quot;106&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6gqph9x3L1w_iLuUTql4BDhLs8RhYPQKGSd8xdsykcZoM4E3VsgGiLJ0w52WJi9yZqnrmsz7uTfALjRnyeShzYiKKGelW4rtfVPySbowpaefvfR5eck5mtMH61QFtI60QFU3YWZF31mO/s0/kernel.JPG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I originally mentioned&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.neuralink.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Neuralink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and I will finish the list with its sister -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kernel.co/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kernel&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;- Why? Similarly big aims for brain-computer interfacing, well funded and holding great potential. In stark contrast to Neuralink, Kernel focuses on non-invasive brain recording technologies in combination with state-of-the-art machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms. The heart of this recording technique relies on a novel optically pumped magnetometer sensors for measuring the magnetoencephalogram of the brain.&amp;nbsp; We hope that both efforts will be successful and advance human knowledge of the brain and greatly improve the understanding and translation of neuronal signals.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/2020/08/innovative-neurotech-start-ups.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdfWQjheN2eMdWv77tV6C8oqxcAuW1RvylqnF7q9HdpLHTt6AfCkGqJbW7ZhAxaorVM7Aned6zxZCUP0QSp0PqVCcpHwFxf64LggmzElHM3hJKi89TYZbXqJAb4tylEG_jmcGhN_IIzQB/s72-c/secretchord.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-3300441938114307442</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-05-27T21:13:26.045+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brain</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Science</category><title>&quot;Proud of being humble&quot; - A personal note on the legacy of Oleh Hornykiewicz </title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&quot; I am only proud of being humble &quot;, Oleh Hornykiewicz &lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;(1926-2020)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;Personally,
I have to deeply thank Oleh, not only for his memories and the time he was willing
to spend with a young scientist like me, but also for a timely reminder restoring
faith in what makes a great scientist. A reminder that a successful scientist is
not measured by the prizes he or she acquires, nor for the low-hanging fruits they
collect because they can. A scientist is measured by those moments of profound breakthrough
discoveries that ripple and reshape the landscape of science. Those are the moments
of which you can be really proud to have achieved in your lifetime. And this is
the story of one of those moments....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Back in 2012, having recently received my PhD from Trinity College in Dublin, I
took up a Post-Doc in Vienna. Within the halls of the Center for Brain Research,
where Karl Landsteiner discovered human blood groups, I encountered a late octogenarian
whom I believed to be from a similar time period as Landsteiner. Intrigued by
his almost daily presence at the center, I asked my new colleagues of who that gentleman
may be and what the heck was he doing here? After more enquiries I finally
was able to spell his name correctly to allow a google search. It turned out to
be Oleh Hornykiewicz, a scientist who revolutionized Parkinson&#39;s Disease (PD) treatment
and who had such a tremendous and lasting positive impact on so many patients suffering
from this debilitating disease. A scientist with whom I had the pleasure of
many conversations throughout my years in Vienna. A scientist of old who shall not
be remembered as someone who &quot;should have received the noble prize&quot; but
for the outstanding scientist and person, he was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman, serif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;(left) Oleh Hornykiewicz and (right) Walther Birkmayer&lt;br /&gt;
who solved a unique mystery underlying Parkinsons Disease&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;Hornykiewicz
and fellow colleagues like Walther Birkmayer described for the first time the absence
of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, specifically in the substantia nigra of patients
afflicted by PD, thereby laying a new foundation for PD research and treatment
to this day. However, as so often happens, breakthroughs in science take their time
and are often met with skepticism from fellow peers. So Oleh had to go one step
further. Being in Vienna in the early 1960’s with health regulations less stringent
than today, an idea started to form in Oleh&#39;s brain when he glimpsed a long-forgotten
bottle of L-Dopa (a precursor to Dopamine) on a shelf within the Department of
Pharmacology. L-Dopa in hand, he walked across the street to his colleague and clinician
Walther Birkmayer convincing him to give it a try on his unfortunate patients
with PD. One may have to remember that patients of those days were in terrible shape
– unable to move or control their movements, among their many other debilitating
symptoms. A few days later they were ready for the first injection of L-Dopa ever
to take place, simultaneously anxious and hopeful to observe the outcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;What happened
next I will remember solely due to the delight and joy on the face of a 90-year
old Oleh Hornykiewicz recalling a glimpse of history. A memory for which he was
immensely grateful. Oleh had a tremendous memory and remembered my name after the
first time he heard it, later telling me that it reminded him of a long-foreclosed
Viennese Cafe and Wine House for which he had fond memories. Coincidently the namesake
Cafe that saved my grandfather from certain death in a Russian POW camp. My grandfather
could convincingly assure the guard, who had similar fond memories of the place,
that he is closely related to the owners - he wasn&#39;t - but could so gain double-rations
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Almost immediately following the injections it became clear that the highly experimental
treatment alleviated the symptoms of PD, it became a key moment in Oleh&#39;s life.
A moment for which every scientist strives, one that trumps all prizes. A moment
that rewards you for all the hard work and sacrifices. The magic of science
happens, when tremor stricken and bed-ridden patients regain their motor control
and are able to stand up and walk again. A joy of the moment that should stay with
Oleh forever and which he had the pleasure to encounter many times over in Austria
and later in his many successful years in Toronto. Canada should become his
home for many years, where most of his family now reside and where on the occasion
of his 90s birthday President Trudeau personally thanked him for his achievements
in Science.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;
I am deeply saddened by his passing and my sincerest condolences go out to his family
and close friends. I personally will remember him for who he was, for what he stood
for and for what we as scientists should aim to be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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One of the most famous patients of Neuroscience is Phineas Gage - Wanna know why? - watch this amazing LEGO Stop Motion Video by Brad Way and his students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wir haben mehr als jemals zuvor. Wir haben mehr Autos, mehr Geld, mehr Alles. Wir haben mehr Informationen als jemals zuvor und können uns mehr Gehör als jemals zuvor verschaffen. Doch wie kann es sein, dass wir nicht zufrieden sind? Wie kann es sein, dass wir am Tag der Wahl, in die Zukunft blickend, noch immer von Ängsten und Emotionen getrieben werden?&lt;/div&gt;
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Wir befinden uns in der westlichen Welt in einer gespaltenen Gesellschaft. Die eine Hälfte, vorwiegend die Generation der Babyboomer und älter, die in ihrem Leben einen stetigen Wachstum wahrnahmen. Jene konnten die positive Entwicklung der Weltpolitik sowie der Weltökonomie bis in die 2000er Jahre mitverfolgen. Diejenigen, die sich oftmals in der ländlichen Schönheit, Sicherheit und Idylle niedergelassen haben. Die sich in ihrer wohl bekannten Umgebung ein Leben aufgebaut haben, dass sie kennen und schätzen. In diesem Leben gibt es nur wenig Unbekanntes - ein Leben der Sicherheit, dass gleichermaßen Zufriedenheit schafft.&lt;/div&gt;
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Auf der anderen Seite steht der Teil der Gesellschaft der oft jünger ist, der oft auch notgedrungen den urbanen Raum sucht um sich selbst eine sichere Zukunft aufzubauen. In dieser urbanen Umgebung sucht man nach dem richtigen Job, nach den richtigen Freunden und vielleicht nach der richtigen Liebe. Man sucht in einer Umgebung, in der man zwar alles zum Leben hat, um die Erfüllung und das Lebensglück. Auf dieser Suche gibt es viel Unbekanntes - neue Leute, neue Herausforderungen, neue Umgebungen und neue Probleme. Dieses ewig Unbekannte schafft gleichermaßen aber ebenso Selbstvertrauen durch konstant notwendige Adaptierung.&lt;/div&gt;
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Wir sehen uns dieser Tage in der westlichen Welt mit zwei konträren Sichtweisen konfrontiert: Jenen die sich um die Zukunft sorgen. Jene die nicht ihr hart erarbeitetes Wohl verlieren wollen. Dessen Kinder nicht den gut bezahlten permanenten Job bekommen, denn sie einst bekommen haben. Sie sorgen sich um die Skandale die publik werden. Sie versperren nun plötzlich ihre Eingangstüren. Sie sorgen sich um die Weltpolitik den Terror, Putin, die Chinesische Wirtschaftspower und ein weiteres versagen unseres Wirtschaftssystems. Sie sorgen sich nicht zu Unrecht! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Die Welt verändert sich, der Reichtum verschiebt sich, politische Macht verschiebt sich. Die einzige Konstante ist, dass sich die Welt verändert. Dieser Tage meint zwar jeder Geschäftsmann, Politiker, Journalist und Wissenschaftler &amp;nbsp;die Zukunft der nächsten 50 Jahre zu kennen. Doch die Realität zeigt uns, sie alle schaffen es nicht einmal, die nächste Wahl vorher zu sagen. Die Welt ist nicht immer so linear, so einfach wie man sie gerne hätte. Laufend verändert sich die Umgebung in der wir leben, und umso mehr wir damit gewohnt sind umzugehen umso weniger Angst haben wir vor der Zukunft. Umso weniger Angst haben wir davor, dass unsere Kinder vergewaltigt werden. Umso weniger Angst haben wir davor das unsere Großeltern keine adäquate Gesundheitsversorgung mehr bekommen. Umso weniger Angst haben wir, dass uns Einwanderer unsere Jobs wegnehmen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Obwohl wir die Fakten und Informationen besser als jemals zuvor auf dem Tisch bekommen, handeln wir seit je her von Emotionen getrieben. Wahlkampfthemen sind dieser Tage keine logischen Themen, bei denen es um die wirkliche Zukunft unserer Bildung, der Wirtschaft oder des Gesundheitssystem geht. Es sind Themen die Emotionen schaffen, Emotionen die unsere Ängste ansprechen, Emotionen die Überzeugungen bilden, &amp;nbsp;und Emotionen die uns zur Wahlurne bringen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Dazu kommt der Teil der Gesellschaft der sich trotz ihrer eigenen Ängste gut gerüstet für die Zukunft sehen. Ein Teil der postmodernen Egozentrik der von sich selbst überzeugt ist.&amp;nbsp;Gemeinsam oder alleine aber es wird geschafft. Ein Teil welcher die Geschichte vergessen hat. Ein &amp;nbsp;Teil der sich wenig angesprochen fühlt. Ein Teil der von den Emotionen der Wahlkampfrhetorik wenig überzeugt ist. Ein Teil der sich &amp;nbsp;von den politischen Institutionen nicht besonders repräsentiert fühlt. &amp;nbsp;Der Teil der ebenso gerne &amp;nbsp;über die Politik meckert, der aber dann oft zu Hause bleibt am Tag der Wahl, um dann einen Tag nach der Wahl gleich wieder auf Facebook und Twitter sich über das Ergebnis lustig macht.&lt;/div&gt;
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Alle von uns müssen sich an der Nase nehmen. Wir müssen unsere Gemeinschaft stärken. Wir müssen Vertrauen bilden und Vertrauen geben. Wir stehen uns selbst in der Schuld sich der Zukunft zu stellen. Weder durch Ängstlichkeit noch durch Passivität werden wir erfolgreich sein. Die westliche Welt steht am Scheideweg. Wir entscheiden ob wir uns der Angst vor der Zukunft beugen, in Isolation uns verabschieden, oder gemeinsam &amp;nbsp;in die Zukunft gehen!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;USA: BRAIN Initiative &amp;nbsp;und Brain Map Project des Allen Brain Institutes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eines der bisher sicherlich&amp;nbsp;erfolgreichsten Projekte wenn es um effiziente Geldnutzung geht ist das Brain Map Projekt. Es gibt drei sehr sinnvolle Ziele des Brain Map Projektes. a) Die Verbindungen der Gehirnzellen untereinander zu visualisieren und zu verstehen b) Verschiedene Zelltypen unseres Gehirns zu identifizieren und charakterisieren sowie c) Elektronische Ableitungen und funktionelle Aufnahmen von einer Vielzahl von Zellen zu erreichen. Diese sehr fundamentalen Fragestellungen sind die Basis für ein besseres Verständnisses unseres Gehirns und von Forschungstiere, die in der Forschung genutzt werden. Leider gibt es in diesen Bereichen basierend auf der Komplexität des Gehirns noch extreme Wissenslücken. Gleichermassen wichtig ist die BRAIN Initiative. Ziel der Initiative ist es neue Methoden und Techniken zu entwickeln die in der Forschung sowie in der Medizin eingesetzt werden können um das Gehirn besser zu verstehen und gleicherma&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;ß&lt;/span&gt;en Störungen der Gehirnfunktion zu bekämpfen. Beide Ansätze der Projekte sind immens wichtig, da sie Fördermöglichkeiten für grundlegende Fortschritte in der Forschung ermöglich von denen die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft über viele Jahre profitieren wird.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vom erfolgreichsten gleich zum umstrittensten Projekts im Bezug auf dessen Zielsetzung. Ein Großprojekt das ungefähr einen Fördertopf von über 1 Mrd. € auf 10 Jahre verschlingt. Die Ambition &amp;nbsp;lag basierend auf dem vorheriggehenden Blue Brain Projekts auf einer Simulation unseres Gehirn. Harsche Kritik der Wissenschaft, verstörendes Projektmanagement und unrealistische Ziele führten sehr schnell zu einer Umstrukturierung am Kopf der Projektleitung und zu neuen Zielen die derzeit noch genauer evaluiert werden. Der Fokus des Projekts wird weiterhin auf der Simulation des Gehirns bleiben und weniger auf dem experimentellen Teil doch wird man sich auf grundlegende Prozesse unserer kognitiven Möglichkeiten fokusieren. Hinzu kommt, dass die Fördergelder einen wichtigen Beitrag zu Infrastrukturma&lt;span lang=&quot;DE-AT&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;ß&lt;/span&gt;nahmen erzielen werden. Aber klar ist, dass hier Ziele anfangs verkauft und vermittelt wurden die abgehoben und fern der Realität sind.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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China als aufstrebender Partner in der Wissenschaft will dem Westen um nichts nachstehen und hat ein neues Projekt in den Startlöchern. Ziel des ambitionierten Projektes ist weniger die Grundlagenforschung sondern Ansätze für die translationale Forschung um die wichtigsten und schlimmsten Hirnerkrankungen und Störungen direkt anzugehen. Ein wichtiger aber umso umstrittener Bestandteil des Projektes werden diverse Versuchsmodelle an Primaten sein. Aufgrund ihrer Nähe zum menschlichen Gehirn ermöglichen diese Studie einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Prozesse unserer Gehirne. Gleichermassen stellt sich die Frage der ethischen Vertretbarkeit dieser Versuche in unserer Zeit und ob standardisierte Prinzipien der Tierhaltung und Tierversuche strikt eingehalten werden um das Leid der Tiere so gering zu möglich zu halten.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Zumindest 1 Toter, und mindestens 5 weitere Personen sind schwerst verletzt im Krankenhaus. Insgesamt, nahmen mehr als 90 Patienten an der Studie teil - Das Positive: nur wenige haben die hohe Dosierung bekommen (alle Betroffenen sowie der Verstorbene gehören zu dieser Gruppe) daher kann man annehmen das die meisten anderen Patienten, mit niedrigeren Dosen, außer Gefahr sind. Wieviele Patienten jedoch die hohe Dosis bekommen haben ist aber noch nicht restlos klar aber es dürften insgesamt 8 Personen sein &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/857379?src=soc_tw_160115-pm_mscpedt_news_drugs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;(Link)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Laut Information von Bials Webseite befindet sich derzeit nur ein Wirkstoff in der klinischen Phase 1. Dieser Wirkstoff mit der Abkürzung BIA 10-247 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/patents/US20150174103&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Link zu US Patent&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;erscheint aufs erste unscheinbar. Ein FAAH Hemmer der zur Wirkung hat, dass mehr Anandamide zur Verfügung stehen. Das führt wiederum zur einer vermehrten Aktivierung von Cannabinoid Rezeptoren im Gehirn sowie in der Peripherie. Genauere Informationen sind schwer zu bekommen, da es abseits der Behörden derzeit keinen Zugang zu experimentalen Daten des spezifischen Wirkstoffes geben wird. (zumindestens habe ich keine gefunden)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bial&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bial&lt;/a&gt; ist ein mittleres Portugiesisches Pharmaunternehmen mit einige Produkten in klinischen Studien vorwiegend im Bereich der Epilepsie Behandlung. Es sei wichtig anzumerken, dass die Studie selbst wie normalerweise nicht vom Pharmaunternehmen selbst durchgeführt wird sondern von spezialisierten klinischen Zentren. In diesem Fall wurde die Studie vom französischen Unternehmen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biotrial.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Biotrial&lt;/a&gt; mit Sitz in Rennes durchgeführt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wahrscheinlich ja, es wäre nicht das erste mal, dass klare Indizien in wissenschaftlichen Daten übersehen worden sind, die Hinweise auf starke Nebenwirkungen geben könnten. Dieser Wirkstoff wurde zuvor in diversen Tierversuchen (wahrscheinlich als erstes in Ratten und Mäusen getestet, danach mit Sicherheit in Schimpansen). Werden die Ergebnisse als positiv bewertet wird mit der ersten Phase der klinischen Studien begonnen, die darauf abzielen lediglich die Sicherheit des Wirkstoffes zu gewährleisten. Hier werden normalerweise basierend auf den in Schimpansen gewonnen Daten verschiedene Dosierungsgruppen getestet. Sollten diese Versuche erfolgreich sein geht die klinische Studie im Normalfall in die nächste Phase, um die Effektivität des Wirkstoffes zu testen. In diesem tragischen Fall wird es nicht mehr dazu kommen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Klinische Studien sind die am meisten kontrollierten und aufwendigsten Studien die enorme Summen verschlingen, doch es passiert leider wenn auch nur ganz selten das es zu so tragischen Fällen wie gestern kam. Über die nächsten Tage und Wochen werden mehr Informationen hervorsickern und es wird mit Sicherheit eine lückenlose Aufklärung geben und Verfehlungen werden auftauchen soweit vorhanden. Wenn man ein Medikament auf den Markt bringen will, braucht man eine lückenlose Dokumentation und die wird hier nützlich sein um Probleme aufzudecken die so tragisch geendet haben.&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Schwer abzusehen, solange wir nicht die genaueren Ursachen kennen. Es wird vorerst schwere wirtschaftliche Folgen für Bial und Biotrial zur Folge haben. Es wird ebenso weitreichende Folgen für weitere klinische Studien haben die CB1 Rezeptoren Regulierung als Ziel haben. All jene Studien werden mit zusätzlichen Auflagen und zusätzlichen Kosten zu rechnen haben.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Ein persönliches Kommentar am Schluss&lt;/b&gt; - Es würde mich wenig überraschen wenn festgestellt wird das a) eventuell solche tragische Nebenwirkungen abzusehen waren b) eventuell die Anzahl der verwendeten Tiere zu gering war um richtige Schlussfolgerungen zu führen und c) eventuell das klinische Institut hier und da vielleicht doch von den offiziellen Richtlinien abgewichen wäre - All jene Punkte wären generell nicht zum ersten mal aufgetreten. Was auch immer die Untersuchungen ans Licht bringen werden, diese Katastrophe wäre zu verhindern gewesen und es zeigt u.a. wieder zwei wichtige Faktoren in der klinische Forschung auf:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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From an evolutionary standpoint some psychologists believe that the optimal time for a relationship is 3-4 years as the offspring would then reach a age where the mother may not need the protection and sustenance of a partner anymore. Not surprisingly this statement is backed by hormonal changes in females during this time period of a relationship and is taken as a reason for many break-ups.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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In sharp contrast to the above hypothesis, the medical field unanimously agree the optimal time to break up with a parasite is as &amp;nbsp;soon as possible. A Chinese man did not head the calls and as it should turn out, has lived with a parasite for more than 4 years. Now, that is not necessarily surprising as their are a number of parasites which go unnoticed for a prolonged time period. However, in his particular case,&amp;nbsp; it is surprising as the parasite was neither of small size, nor was it in a part of the body where you would expect it. In fact, the parasite worm settled in his brain - so you can imagine when doctors in Cambridge saw his brain scan images for the first time. See below what they have seen:&lt;/div&gt;
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All of us learn better when we are able to connect newly acquired facts and knowledge with something we already know - a central and crucial process in learning which helps us to learn more efficiently. The same is not only true for learning but also for recalling and remembering certain things. Germans (as always) have a specific name for this: &quot;Eselsbrücke&quot; (donkey bridge). It goes back to the fact that the only way to get a stubborn donkey to cross a stream is to send him over a bridge. And sometimes a donkey bridge is the only way to get our stubborn memories to remember something. So essentially it is easier to remember a name of a river if you have already been there and can link the name with a memory already available in your mind.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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So in order to form connections between certain elements we need to understand concepts. We would not see an obvious link, between a cow and a pencil, however between a cow and a farm or between a cow and cheese. You can also think of each concept as a bucket, once you learn something new, you decide in which buckets your new item will fit. Now what has it all to do with Star Wars. Rodrigo Quiroga and his team had a unique chance when he was allowed to record from actual neurons within the brains in awake patients. Sounds like science-fiction not really. In severe cases of epilepsy it is required to perform a brain surgery to identify the location of the seizure. This procedure requires the introduction of an electrode to stimulate certain areas. With a small tweak you can not only stimulate but also record the neuronal activity from a small and selected population of cells within the brain without any further harm or danger to the patient.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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During one of those procedures (the patients are awake as they would have to respond to stimulations of the brain) they were also shown a set of pictures. After recording a number of neurons the team realised one particular neuron which increased its firing activity when the patient saw pictures of Luke Skywalker (see the figure below). Not particularly surprising, however, the same neuron responded similarly when the name Luke Skywalker was shown on screen or spoken by a female or male voice. So now you may be wondering why we do not call the neuron - The Luke Skywalker Neuron - as the neuron did not respond to any other picture of people or objects in the test set. And yet it responded to one more picture - &amp;nbsp;the picture of Yoda. This proved that the neuron did not respond only to Luke Skywalker himself but characters associated with it. Due to time constraints they could not test more items and characters but in further experiments the team proved that these neurons would be able to form the basis of how we form associations and concepts and at the same time would explain why the hippocampus (a central brain structure where those cells were recorded) is so important for encoding and recalling of episodes and memories.&lt;br /&gt;
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Those individual neurons would be able to form the building blocks of a network that would represent our bucket from earlier on. Now if Disney decides to introduce a new character (like the BB-8 droid) in the series your neurons could find anchor points in the Star Wars network/bucket. The neuronal connections to this neuronal network would strengthen everytime you recall the memory of BB-8 &amp;nbsp;or experience it in another episode on or of the screen. Their finding not only awakened the Star Wars Neuron in Neuroscience but at the same time and for the first time in humans identified brain cells which could perform one of the most crucial tasks in our brains.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;They tend to fire to personally relevant concepts, namely, those that the subject may care to store in memory;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;They have a high degree of invariance, which is in agreement with the fact that we tend to remember concepts and forget irrelevant details&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;They have a sparse, explicit and non-topographic representation, which is ideal for memory functions such as creating new associations&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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</description><link>http://neuralethes.jpassecker.com/2016/01/the-star-wars-neuron.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (JPassecker)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTe78JFAzontaxv_rQ37r8SqN_11hqYWaFxcPuf2-6o5IGlbj7qSaiUvGEFRgmf0_rvj6i77zqD9Kc48hnr4YmHFmd5FAmFzN3A9qvOvQbZoxI3vLEwIX8Q65el1s-tp4Gcj4E5weNek/s72-c/StarWarsNeuron2.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4946200200621599884.post-2387796631603401093</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-11-08T12:10:24.205+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brain</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gedaechtnis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gehirn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gehirnleistung</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hippocampus</category><title>Das 90 Minuten Gehirn</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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Die meisten von euch kennen Leonard im Film-Klassiker Memento der verzweifelt versucht den Mörder seiner Frau zu finden obwohl er keine neuen Erinnerungen formen kann. Man würde meinen hier handelt es sich um herausragende Film-fiction. Im folgenden Einzelfall sehen wir aber, dass eine solch kuriose &amp;nbsp;Amnesie durchaus passieren könne und nicht nur ins Reich der Fiktion und der Filmindustrie gehört.&lt;/div&gt;
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Im Zuge einer dentalen Behandlung und lokaler Anästhesie verlor unser heutige Patient nicht nur kurzfristig sein Gaumengefühl sondern die Möglichkeit neue Erinnerungen zu formen. Um genauer zu sein, der Patient kann zwar neue Erinnerungen formen, diese aber nicht länger als 90. Minuten für sich behalten. Alle vorhanden Erinnerungen blieben jedoch unverändert vorhanden. Um weiter in Hollywood zu bleiben grüßt ihn jeden Tag das Murmeltier aufs Neue. In seinem Fall leider der Zahnarzt da er jeden Tag aufs neue aufwacht und meint er hätte einen Zahnarzt Termin. Neurologen stehen hier vor einem besonderen Rätsel, denn die verdächtigen Gehirnregionen des Patienten scheinen keinen offensichtlichen Schaden auf (soweit durch nicht invasive Technologien erkennbar). Ebenso weißt der Patient keine anderen psychologischen Veränderungen auf. Einzig ein andauernder Tinnitus wird vom Patienten beschrieben. Dies ist wohl der erste bekannte Fall einer starken anterograden Amnesie ohne eindeutiger Beschädigung einer Gehirnregion und eröffnet weitere interessante Fragen in der Verarbeitung von Gedächtnisprozessen im menschlichen Gehirn. Meine persönliche Vermutung ist, dass weniger Gehirnregionen geschädigt worden sind sondern Nervenbahnen die schwerer zu lokalisieren bzw. visualisieren &amp;nbsp;sind.&lt;/div&gt;
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Die Lissenzephalie beschreibt eine Fehlbildung des Gehirns. Je nach Ausprägungsstärke der Krankheit kommt es entweder zu Verkleinerungen der enorm wichtigen Gehirnwindungen oder gar wie im Bild sichtbar zu einem kompletten Verlust der Gehirnwindungen. Das Fotografen Duo &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voorhes.com/&quot;&gt;The Voorhes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;hatte den Auftrag in der pathologische Abteilung der Universität von Texas diverse Präparate von menschlichen Gehirnen stilistisch zu fotografieren. Am Beispiel des Gehirns mit Lissenzephalie mussten sie auch die Entdeckung machen das alle Dokumentationen zu den Gehirnen die auf Microfilm aufgenommen wurden zerstört wurden bzw. nicht mehr aufgefunden werden konnten. So konnten sie lediglich feststellen das dieses Gehirn einer Frau gehörte die im Jahre 1970 gestorben ist. Aufgrund der geringen Größe des Gehirns, sowie der geringen Lebenserwartung von Personen mit einer so stark ausgeprägten Krankheit kann man davon ausgehen das es sich hier um ein&amp;nbsp;junges Mädchen handelt. In den meisten Fällen ist es eine genetische Mutation der für die inkorrekte, verringerte oder gar nicht vorhandene Migration von kortikalen Neuronen verantwortlich ist. In solchen Fällen kommt es zu schlimmen Fehlbildungen der menschlichen Großhirnrinde im Mutterleib, die später zu ganz schweren geistigen und auch körperlichen Behinderungen führt. Abseits von genetischen Mutationen können in seltenen Fällen &amp;nbsp;auch schwere Vergiftungen oder Viruserkrankungen während der frühen Schwangerschaftswochen ein Grund für die Erkrankung sein. Heilung gibt es logischerweise keine, doch kann man heute die Erkrankung ab der 24. Schwangerschaftswoche relativ einfach per Ultraschall feststellen. Auch ein Grund wieso solche Gehirne fast nur mehr in historischen pathologischen Sammlungen zu finden ist.&lt;/div&gt;
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Viele von uns kennen die Erfindungen und Pläne von Leonardo da Vinci. Weniger oder fast gar nicht bekannt sind uns die Pläne und Ausführungen seines Landsmanns Angelo Mosso. Bis vor kurzem sind seine Manuskripte in einer Universitätsbibliothek verstaubt und vergessen worden, bis sie von Stefano Sandrone wiederentdeckt wurden. In ihnen fand er eine Maschine die Gehirnaktivität indirekt messen sollte. Die Maschine basierte auf der Idee, dass das Gehirn mehr Blut braucht wenn es mehr aktiviert wird. Das beachtliche daran ist, dass auf der selben Idee die heutige funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT) basiert. Diese Methode ist heutzutage die modernste um einen Einblick in die Gehirnfunktion zu bekommen. Daher verwundert es, dass Mossos Maschine 150 Jahre zuvor das auch schon zu einem gewissen Teil konnte.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Die ausgeklügelte Maschine funktioniert im Grunde wie eine Waage basierend auf einem gut balancierten Hebelpunkt - wohin das Blut fließt in die Richtung bewegt sich die Waage ganz leicht. Natürlich führte er auch Kontrollversuche die den Atmungsfehler ausgleichen sollen und korrigierte seine Waage dementsprechend. Denn bei der Atmung verändert sich der Schwerpunkt auch automatisch. Die Bewegungen der Waage wurden automatisch auf einem Kymographen aufgezeichnet (eine Art Seismograph der die Bewegungen per Stift automatisch auf eine Papierrolle überträgt).&lt;/div&gt;
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Laut Mossos Manuskript konnte er eine erhöhte Bewegung in Richtung des Kopfes feststellen wenn Probanden ein anspruchsvolles Philosophie Buch studierten im vergleich zu einem leicht lesbaren Buch. Es sei zwar stark zu hinterfragen ob seine Ergebnisse wirklich die erhöhte Gehirnaktivität, aber Forscher der Universität Reading machten sich daran um eine ähnliche Maschine auf Basis von Mossas Manuskript zu bauen. Und diese konnten in ihren Versuchen wirklich feststellen, dass man basierend auf seinem Prinzip, die Veränderungen der Blutmenge im Gehirn messen kann sofern das Gerät sehr gut kalibriert ist. Somit kann man Angelo Mosso durchaus als Vorreiter der modernen bildgebenden Gehirnmessungen sehen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Generell werden Informationen über Gedächtnis und Emotionen vom Hippocampus, der Schaltstelle im limbischen System des Gehirns, an viele andere Gehirnregionen „versendet“, damit sie dort weiter verarbeitet werden. Das kann, so die ForscherInnen, auf zweierlei Art passieren: „Wie ein Radiosender, der sein Programm ausstrahlt und jeder nimmt sich, was ihn interessiert, oder wie die Post, mit fix zugewiesenen Adressaten für verschiedene Informationen“, erklärt Klausberger, Leiter der Abteilung für Kognitive Neurobiologie.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Anhand der Funktionen „Gedächtnis“, „zielgerichtetes Verhalten“ und „Ängstlichkeit“ untersuchten die WissenschafterInnen der MedUni Wien den Informationsfluss. Sie konnten zeigen, dass dieser beim Gedächtnis breit gestreut ist, was daran liegen könnte, dass mehrere Gehirn-Areale dabei beteiligt sind. Aber im Fall von zielgerichtetem Verhalten und Ängstlichkeit sortiert der Hippocampus die Information und schickt sie mit Hilfe von unterschiedlichen Nervenzellen ganz gezielt an jene Zentren im Gehirn, die dafür spezialisiert und verantwortlich sind.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Ursache und Verarbeitung von Ängstlichkeit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Gleichzeitig wurde aber auch entdeckt, dass Ängstlichkeit von bestimmten Nervenzellen im Hippocampus kodiert und bevorzugt an ein Areal weitergeleitet wird, das bisher weniger damit in Verbindung gebracht wurde: Der Hippocampus leitet bei Ängstlichkeit die Informationen nicht an die Amygdala-Region des Gehirns, wo normalerweise Angstgefühle verarbeitet werden, sondern an den präfrontalen Cortex, wo eigentlich die Entscheidungen getroffen werden. Klausberger: „Wenn man etwa auf einen sehr hoch gelegenen ‚Skywalk‘ im Gebirge hinausgeht, ist man ängstlich und weiß nicht, ob man hinausgehen soll. Um den Ausblick zu haben, muss die Neugierde gewinnen und&amp;nbsp; die Ängstlichkeit überwunden werden. Die Entscheidung, ob man neugierig hinausgehen oder eher in Sicherheit bleiben soll, wird im präfrontalen Cortex getroffen.“ Klausberger: „Das beantwortet eine ganz generelle Frage der Neurobiologie, nämlich wie das Gefühl der Ängstlichkeit im Gehirn dargestellt und verarbeitet wird.“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Dabei darf die Emotion der Ängstlichkeit nicht mit akuter Angst, etwa bei einer überraschenden Begegnung mit einer Klapperschlange in freier Wildbahn, oft begleitet mit dem „Freezing“-Effekt, verwechselt werden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 19.4400005340576px;&quot;&gt;Analysiert wurde der Informationsfluss der Neuronen im Hippocampus im Tiermodell mit Hilfe einer opto-genetischen und elektrophysiologischen Untersuchungsmethode, die über Lichtreize funktioniert.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The new book from Prof Shane O&#39;Mara&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Turn on the TV and you will soon find a series where torture is applied not only to get confessions but information - ideally to save the life&#39;s of others (if the good guys apply it). Unfortunately this is not only seen on Television but you still find that torture techniques are not a thing of the past but are still applied all around the world. The common consensus in public or within military organisations is still that torture is effective in getting what you want. And there the problem already starts, it may not be the truth. So Prof. Shane O&#39;Mara goes on a quest to debunk the mythical cloud around torture and explains us how extreme stressors affect the brain and lead to unreliable information.&lt;br /&gt;
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Check out his upcoming book and pre-order online on Amazon:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.de/Why-Torture-Doesnt-Work-Interrogation/dp/0674743903/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1429205134&amp;amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;amp;keywords=Why+torture+does%27t+work&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Amazon.de&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Torture-Doesnt-Work-Interrogation/dp/0674743903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1429205096&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=Why+Torture+Doesn%27t+Work%3A+The+Neuroscience+of+Interrogation&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Amazon.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Harvard Univ. Press,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Graphik, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;&quot;&gt;ISBN 9780674743908&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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None of those songs will probably ever get a Golden Record award, but they certainly speak to the heart of many PhD students, post docs,med studens and whoever is in research. One of those long nights alone in the lab and a new idea for a song parody was born. Here are my best 5 of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nr. 1: Less known, but my favourite being a post-doc - Bohemian Rhapsody&lt;/div&gt;
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Nr.2: For the lazy hangover day in the lab (we all had one of those)&lt;/div&gt;
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Nr. 3: Probably the best known, at least the most viewed on youtube - Bad Project&lt;/div&gt;
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Nr. 4 - Don&#39;t stop pipetting&lt;/div&gt;
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and Nr. 5 - Was a though one to call &amp;nbsp;- but finally one for the Med students out there - I opted for UMD&#39;s Study Maybe&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Read more about Broca&#39;s Aphasia and the story about Sarah Scott &lt;a href=&quot;http://neuralethes.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/brocas-aphasia-story-of-sarah-scott.html?q=scott&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Once in a while you come across those rare jewels within the medical literature. This is one of them. Here is the case of a French Casanova who made his wife his mistress. To the best of his knowledge he was cheating on his wife with a complete stranger. I guess to impress on this new women in his life he even changed his usual sexual habits &amp;nbsp;(it is not reported in what ways exactly). &amp;nbsp;But luckily for him his wife did not file for a divorce because she was in fact the woman who seduced him one more time.&lt;br /&gt;
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So how could this happen? In the world of Brain research this phenomena is called Capgras Syndrome. (For the German speaking audience&lt;a href=&quot;http://neuralethes.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/capgras-syndrom-der-bekannte-betruger.html?q=capgras&quot;&gt; my previous post&lt;/a&gt; on the syndrome with more details and cases). People suffering from this Syndrome experience a delusional misidentification of objects, places and most of the time people. They would for example &amp;nbsp;not recognise their parents in front of them but would treat them as fraudulent imposters. So Neuroscience has a good excuse if you cheat on your wife with your wife, but unfortunately I have to tell you, we still have no good excuse if you cheat on your wife with somebody else. That case won&#39;t get you into the medical literature. It will only get you straight into the hands of a divorce lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Source: Neurophysiol Clin. 2008 Jun;38(3):177-82. doi: 10.1016/j.neucli.2008.04.003. Epub 2008 Apr 23. An odd manifestation of the Capgras syndrome: loss of familiarity even with the sexual partner.&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Antérion C, Convers P, Desmales S, Borg C, Laurent B.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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An entertaining talk about the Neuroscience of a Zombie - get a taste of how close some of our brain conditions are to the fictitious state of a Zombie.&lt;br /&gt;
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- a rare non lethal disease which we do not wish on anyone. Dissecting Scalp Cellulitis as the name implies results in an inflammation of the scalps hair follicles and an accompanying skin irritation. The causes are not entirely known, but as DSC often appears with acne conglobata and hidradenitis suppurativa it hints towards a common&amp;nbsp;pathogenic mechanism of abnormal follicular keratinization and occlusion interlinked with bacterial infections. In addition, 90% of all patients are black men mostly in their 20s to 40s. In belows case however we have a white man who has suffered incredibly under the disease and thus has chosen the most extreme treatment options available. - He opted for a scalp replacement therapy as you will see in the pictures below. I WARN you before starting the video or clicking on his photobook. The pictures are very graphic and if you are not used to seeing them, they are quite disturbing. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the disease is chronic and relapsing most of the treatment is supportive and tries to deal with pain and inflammation relief. In several cases tumor necrosis factor blockers, selective hair follicle removement and acne relief medication Isotretinoin have been utilised effectivly but conclusive data is yet insufficient as relapses might occur after many months and are not reported. In severe cases a scalp replacement is the last resort. In this case skin tissue grafted from the patient&#39;s leg has successfully been implanted onto the patients skull as you can see in the supporting pictures. We wish him the best and DSC is a thing of the past for him&lt;br /&gt;
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Imagine you are again a 5-year old playful child. And one time your mum will take you to a medical doctor who will perform a lobotomy? Well let&#39;s hear some thoughts of such a case. If you need a short update on the method of lobotomy I suggest a quick glance at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy&quot;&gt;Wiki site&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or check out the second documentary below.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 1: Die Hypnose kann versteckte Erinnerungen hervorbringen&lt;br /&gt;
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Gleich zum Anfang der wohl am meisten verbreiteste Mythos zur Hypnose. Selbst Mediziner und Psychologen glauben teilweise ebenso daran. Fakt ist, dass es dafür absolut keine Beweise gibt. Wenn dann, trifft das Gegenteil zu. Unter Hypnose fällt es leichter falsche Erinnerungen zu pflanzen denn man neigt offener für Vorschläge zu sein. Das ist auch der Hauptgrund wieso die Hypnose als Therapieform angewendet wird.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 2: Die Hypnose ist wie ein Schlafzustand&lt;br /&gt;
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Auch hier wiederlegt die Forschung den Mythos. Ebenso trifft hier eher das Gegenteil zu. Die Personen mögen zwar so erscheinen als würden sie schlaffen, da sie die Augen geschlossen haben, doch sind sie in vollster Konzentration.&lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektroenzephalografie&quot;&gt; EEG&lt;/a&gt; Messungen des Gehirns ergeben anstatt &lt;a href=&quot;http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1140322-overview&quot;&gt;REM&lt;/a&gt; (typisch für Schlaf) - Alpha Wellen. Diese Gehirnaktivität wird mit geschlossenen Augen in Verbindung gebracht, doch der Proband selbst ist zwar entspannt aber voll konzentriert.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 3: Unter Hypnose kann man nicht lügen&lt;br /&gt;
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Besonders Dank Hollywood meinen viele Menschen die Hypnose ist eine magische Welt in der man nicht lügen kann. Man kann genauso noch lügen, so sind ebenso noch die Moralvorstellungen der Personen intakt.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 4: Die Hypnose kann mich in einer Behandlung heilen&lt;br /&gt;
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Auch hier haben viele Menschen den Eindruck gewonnen, dass eine einzelne Hypnosebehandlung zum Erfolg führen kann. Natürlich verkauft sich so eine Geschichte immer gut. Wer will schon hören, dass es 20 Jahre, gescheiterte Ehen und hunderte Nikotin pflaster gebraucht hat um sich das rauchen abzugewöhnen. Wenn die Hypnotherapie mal hilft dann erst nach wiederholten Male und meist auch nur als Begleittherapie. Hier gilt wie in vielen Bereichen, &quot;Gut Ding braucht Weile&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 5: Nur die mental Schwachen sind anfällig für die Hypnose&lt;br /&gt;
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Auch hier dürfte das Gegenteil zutreffen. Bei der Hypnose geht es vordergründig um die Stärke der Konzentration. Daher umso höher die Intelligenz und die Selbstkontrolle umso einfacher sollte es für jemanden sein in einen hypnotischen Zustand zu treten. Daher fällt es Personen mit mentalen Problemen oft schwerer sich in solch einen Zustand zu versetzen. Sollte man aber generell nicht darauf ansprechen so ist man nicht alleine. Rund 30% der Bevölkerung spricht nur schlecht auf die Hypnose an, doch mit vermehrter Arbeit geht auch das.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mythos 6: In der Hypnose ist man hilflos&lt;br /&gt;
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Wie schon aus den vorherigen Mythen klar sein sollte ist an dieser Behauptung auch nichts drann. Wie schon erwähnt verliert man seine Moralvorstellungen ebenso wenig wie die Kontrolle über seinen Geist oder seinen Körper. Lediglich ist man offener für Vorschläge. Doch hat das wenig damit zu tun, mit einem Bein auf der Bühne herumzutanzen und wie ein Huhn zu schreien. Dies gelingt nur bei Leuten die auch mal gerne im im normalen Leben im Rampenlicht stehen wollen und solche Personen kennt wohl ein jeder von uns.&lt;br /&gt;
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Today I will deviate quite a bit from Neuroscience and wander into tissue engineering as I just want to share a very informative and impressive video about heart transplants and engineering. Growing &amp;nbsp;organs &quot;out of the Petri dish&quot; and successfully implanting them into the human body has already been achieved for several organs. However, most of those organs are of relatively simple architecture. Complex organs like the heart are causing much more headaches for researchers. Hence, they had to come up with new approaches to tackle the problem. Instead of growing the organ completely new, they took a heart from a recently diseased person, decellularized the heart and then repopulate the organ with functional stem cells. But the donor heart don&#39;t need to be human, it can be also from a pig. In fact, pig organs have been successfully implanted. But as with pig hearts or hearts from donor patients the main problem up to now has been the auto-immune reaction of the patients immune system. So it is not uncommon that the patients&#39; body often rejects the donor graft. With the new technique this problem will be overcome. However, there is still a long way to go to fully regrow a new heart but for the moment even rebuilding and re-implanting parts like a heart valves is an important step forward. Check out now the video for a better picture...!&lt;br /&gt;
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