🚨Our latest paper, Electrical Spinal Imaging: A noninvasive, high‑resolution approach that enables electrophysiological mapping of the human spinal cord is out now in PLOS Biology
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003116
It's not only fancy figures, let me show you ⬇️
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Scientists observe “striking” link between social AI chatbots and psychological distress
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #health #mentalhealth #psychology #chatbots #neuroscience #cognitivescience
Basic Consciousness in Birds
“Behavioral and neurophysiological data suggest that some bird species are aware of external stimuli and recognize themselves to varying degrees in the mirror. Despite large differences in the general brain organization between birds and mammals, the requirements for consciousness as outlined in Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and Recurrent Processing Theory (RPT) seem to be mostly met.”
“The presented results add to the growing body of evidence that consciousness may be present in many parts of the animal kingdom, across species that are phylogenetically distant from each other and have remarkably different brain structures. It is certainly too early to speculate whether this is the result of convergent evolution or results from a distant common ancestor, but if so many animals with such diverse brain organisations are conscious, it becomes increasingly likely that consciousness adds cognitive abilities that are evolutionarily successful.”
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0308
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #Evolution
#Birds #Ornithology #Biology #Nature
🚀🧠 Ah, the Journal of Neuroscience's latest opus: apparently, tripping on #DMT makes your sense of self go *poof*! 🌀 Who knew that the key to self-dissolution was just a psychedelic voyage away? 🤯👽 Scientists, always on the cutting edge of the *blindingly obvious*.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/24/JNEUROSCI.0344-25.2025 #Psychedelics #Neuroscience #SelfDissolution #Consciousness #HackerNews #ngated
DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/24/JNEUROSCI.0344-25.2025
#HackerNews #DMT #self-dissolution #criticality #neuroscience #consciousness
Vừa có tin tức về Synaptic Frontiers, một dự án tạo ra bộ câu đố tương tác, không hề nhàm chán về khoa học thần kinh và công nghệ thần kinh. Tuyệt vời cho những ai đam mê tìm hiểu về não bộ, mô phỏng não, và khoa học thần kinh tính toán. Hãy thử sức nhé!
#SynapticFrontiers #Neuroscience #Neurotech #Quiz #KhoaHocThanKinh #CongNgheThanKinh #HocTap
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1p9obrn/synaptic_frontiers_i_created_a_set_of/
What Baking Bread, Knitting, and Coloring Actually Do to Your Brain— Science shows everyday creativity can soothe your nervous system and boost your mood.
Here’s what baking, knitting, and coloring really do to your brain.
#Neuroscience #CreativityResearch #WellBeing #StressRelief #EverydayCreativity
Faculty position in adaptive neurotechnologies at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland www.myscience.ch/jobs/id68640... #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience
Faculty Position in Adaptive N...
Spotted on Facebook, originally from Bluesky.
25-Nov-2025
Scientists identify five ages of the human #brain over a lifetime
Unlocking the Brain's Hidden Learning Blocks
https://techlife.blog/posts/scientists-uncover-the-brains-hidden-learning-blocks/
#HumanBrain #CentralNervousSystem #Brain #Learning #Neuroscience
The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence between #contemplative insight and #neuroscience reveals the constructed, dynamic nature of ego. Here's a brief overview:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-default_mode_network/
Axons and dendrites are fundamentally different. An example from #Drosophila:
"axons and dendrites can accumulate different microtubule-binding proteins; protein synthesis machinery is concentrated in the cell body; pre- and post-synaptic sites localize to distinct regions of the neuron; and specializations similar to the initial segment are present. In addition, we track EB1-GFP dynamics and determine microtubules in axons and dendrites have opposite polarity."
"Polarity and intracellular compartmentalization of Drosophila neurons", Rolls et al. 2007
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1749-8104-2-7
To collapse axons and dendrites into point neurons in a simulation of neural circuits is, at this point, malpractice.
Open position: Postdoc in Systems Genomics in Neurodegeneration. #science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch #neuroscience #genomics #postdoc #postdocposition www.lifescience.net/jobs/215030/...
Open position: Postdoc in Circuits & Computational Neuroscience. #science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch #neuroscience #postdoc #postdocposition www.science.hr/jobs/215029/...
After 3 years initiated by @flybrain using the #flywire, I finally did a pathway analysis via #Codex, gosh it is totally addictive, and the Youtube tutorial is so easy ! Why didnt I find time to run this..oh well! I just need to dig a bit more on genetic line fetching now..
#drosophila #connectomics #neuroscience
“To put it bluntly: one can experience without thinking, but one cannot think without experiencing. Experiences come to the surface of being through the body, and not through the minds, or some sort of homunculus sitting in our heads, trying to ‘make sense’ of a world he doesn’t see, because the world is hidden in the black box of the scalp. We don’t perceive the world through some sort of inner solitary lens situated in our heads. We perceive the world through every single cell of our body.“
Aeon: Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think
https://aeon.co/essays/why-you-need-your-whole-body-from-head-to-toes-to-think
Scoperti quattro principali punti di svolta topologici nello sviluppo neurale nel corso della vita: intorno ai 9, 32, 66 e 83 anni. Queste età hanno definito cinque principali epoche di sviluppo topologico, ciascuna con distintivi cambiamenti topologici legati all'età. Queste epoche della vita presentano ciascuna una distinta direzione di sviluppo topologico e specifici cambiamenti nelle proprietà organizzative che guidano la relazione età-topologia.
#neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8
"For all the alleged complexity of generative AI, at their core they really are models of language.
The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own. Humans use language to communicate the results of our capacity to reason, form abstractions, and make generalizations, or what we might call our intelligence. We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought. Understanding this distinction is the key to separating scientific fact from the speculative science fiction of AI-exuberant CEOs.
The AI hype machine relentlessly promotes the idea that we’re on the verge of creating something as intelligent as humans, or even “superintelligence” that will dwarf our own cognitive capacities. If we gather tons of data about the world, and combine this with ever more powerful computing power (read: Nvidia chips) to improve our statistical correlations, then presto, we’ll have AGI. Scaling is all we need.
But this theory is seriously scientifically flawed. LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build.
We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #Intelligence #Reasoning #Neuroscience
