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Brain Area Responsible for Identification With Fictional Characters Revealed by Anjanee Sharma on  March 16, 2021 at 10:30 PM Timothy Broom, lead author, said, "When they think about a favorite fictional character, it appears similar in one part of the brain as when they are thinking about themselves." The ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) in the brain shows increased activity when people think about themselves and close friends. Researchers scanned the brains of 19 self-described fans of the "Game of Thrones" series with an fMRI while thinking about themselves, n...

I’m Sorry. Mr. President, It Isn’t Working, Change Course! Source: Prof. John Egbeazien Oshodi It is not too late to change the course of things. There is what we in Psychological Science call Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in individuals, it is a measure of intellectual ability. Let’s apply it to the Nigerian society as a geographical brain and body. It is the "ability" of performing. In other words, the ability for comprehension, combinations, and learning. As a nation it isn't that we are less intelligent, but the enormous psychological and physical conditions of our national geogr...

Google Advised Mental Health Care by Angela Mohan on  March 11, 2021 at 9:21 AM Google advised its employees to go for mental health counselling or apply leave when they complained about racism or sexual harassment at workplace, the media reported. According to NBC News, Google's human resources (HR) department encouraged them to take mental health leave, even when their complaints were unrelated to such concerns. "They consulted human resources after colleagues made comments about their skin colour or Black hairstyles or asked if they were sexually interested in their te...

Immune Cells in Brain Predict Response to Immunotherapy by Angela Mohan on  March 8, 2021 at 6:18 PM Immune cells accessing cerebrospinal fluid recapitulate the characteristics of cells identified in brain metastasis, and could therefore constitute novel biomarkers of response to immune-based therapies, as per the study in Nature Communications, led by Joan Seoane, Director of Preclinical and Translational Research co-program at VHIO and ICREA Professor. Immune checkpoint inhibitors including anti-PD1, anti-PD-L1, and anti-CTLA4, have shown significant clinical benefits in...

Artificial Intelligence Can Read Brain Data and Generate Personally Attractive Images by Anjanee Sharma on  March 5, 2021 at 5:33 PM Researchers have developed a device that can understand subjective notions of attractiveness. The device was able to create new portraits on its own that were tailored to what an individual found attractive. Researchers interpreted brain signals using artificial intelligence. They then combined the obtained brain-computer interface with a generative model of artificial faces, which allowed the computer to create facial images based on indivi...