Burst of creativity: Frontal lobe dementia boosts poetic and artistic talents

Burst of creativity: Frontal lobe dementia boosts poetic and artistic talents

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Frontotemporal dementia can release the creative potential of the brain’s visual areas ...
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‘BrainNet’ experiment allows people to communicate by thought, ‘blurring fundamental notions about individual identity’

In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical ...
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Taking psychoactive drugs can mirror near death experiences, study shows

In a fascinating new study, [near-death experience] stories were compared linguistically with anecdotes of drug experience in order to identify a ...
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‘Artificial’ memory and identity’: Scientists create memories ‘indistinguishable’ from natural ones—in mice

Experience and memory are inexorably linked, or at least they seemed to be before a recent report on the formation of completely ...
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Is our genome altered by things that happen to us as children?

[A] new study makes a remarkable connection between experience and the genetic diversity of the brain. It suggests that experience can change ...
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