With the NFL season beginning in less than one week, We at NEWRON headquarters are happy to know that neuroengineers are finally lending a hand in keeping our football players alive and well. Sure, these scientists could be spending their lives curing debilitating diseases that people get without intentionally bashing their head’s into others, but […]
This latest edition of NEWRON has not one, but two articles featuring Johns Hopkins University scientists that made it all the way through the highly selective NEWRON publishing staff filters and into your inboxes. In case you didn’t know it already, Hopkins has got a decent research thing going on.
Spam-Filter Math Used to Understand How […]
Welcome to the trippy edition of NEWRON. One of our lead NEWRON editors recently got his wisdom teeth extracted today and is currenlty doped up on a variety of mind-altering narcotics. Aren’t the colors far out?
ELECTRICAL IMPLANT STEADIES BALANCE DISORDER IN ANIMALS
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2007/08_06a_07.html
Hearing […]
The NEWRON publishing staff would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the premature and unintentional dissemination of this week’s issue, which occurred earlier this evening. Sometimes we get a little too excited and just can’t hold ourselves back from sending out the latest riveting news in the world of neuroengineering. We will try […]
Happy Friday all!
Man Regains Speech After Brain Stimulation
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/health/01cnd-brain.html?em&ex=1186200000&en=95f2b4f58d93163f&ei=5087%0A
A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses of electric current, […]
