The blood may hold many clues to damage and degeneration in the brain. New findings bring a blood test for brain disorders closer to reality….
What Can Your Blood Tell You About Your Brain?
Lab Talk
Astrocytes Mediate Brain Lymphatic Function
The lymphatic system plays a key role in waste removal and immune function. Until 2012 it was thought that not such waste removal system existed…
Education and Travel in the EEG
Education and travel both increase the scope for more complex, novel stimulus to the brain. In turn the complexity of the brain EEG signal increases…
EEG Complexity Increases in Lockstep with Stimulus Consumption
More complex environments with expanded scope for stimulii to the brain have far reaching impact on various aspects of the brain. Sapien Labs’ Human Brain…
Three Talks on Individual Differences in the Brain and Behavior
There are many dimensions along which individual differences manifest in the brain and behavior from how we see, smell and perceive the world. Hear three…
Foundations of Intelligence
What is intelligence? Here are several foundational concepts that help define the descriptive rules of intelligence, not just of the human mind, but in any…
The Adaptive Traverse: How Knowledge Moves from DNA to Behavior
Here I discuss the concept of an adaptive traverses and how this might explain the link between genes and behavior. Your DNA knows things. It…
Coronavirus and the Brain
Coronaviruses can be ‘neuroinvasive’ and have impacts on the brain from inflammation to demyelination With the psyche of the entire world consumed by Coronavirus, as…
Raising Robots in AI-Kindergarten
How insights from the way the brain learns can be used to design adaptive learning mechanisms for AI that include both phylogenetic and ontogenetic aspects….
How Does the Brain Deal With Novelty?
Current theories of connectionism have a hard time explaining how the brain deals with novel situations. An alternative approach of fast hierarchical adaptations could solve…
