Archive for November, 2007
Remove yourself from your body
Haven’t you every wanted to just remove yourself from your body, just for a while, and see how that feels like? Well, that might become reality, instead of science-fiction. Specialists of the Flemish University Hospital in Antwerp have accidentally aroused a patient into a out-of-body-experience, while trying to treat the patient from a annoying buzz […]
Read More →Your conscious life is an awake dream…
The brain produces activity non-stop. The activity increases with stimuli we can present in the laboratory, such as a picture, a touch or a sound. However, the activity of the brain at rest — the so-called “baseline” activity — may prove to be the most important aspect of our mental lives. Monitoring the awake, resting […]
Read More →Can we regenerate brain-matter?
Nerve cells are the most commonly known cells in the brain. Therefore it would be logical to suggest that nerve cells have the majority in the human brain. Yet this not completely right. Star-shaped glial cells, the so called “astroglia”. Glial means glue. As befits their name, until now these cells have been regarded merely […]
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