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A WIRED listicle teasing five unusual techniques for improving brain function, part of the magazine's broader coverage of future-shaping ideas.

This 2018 research article from PMC explores the neuroscientific and psychological reasons why humans experience pleasure from music.

A new study identifies a neural circuit that integrates visual and cognitive processing in the brain.

Explores the vast energy efficiency gap between the human brain (15W) and AI hardware (billions of watts needed for real-time simulation), highlighting neuromorphic computing approaches like spin-memristors, phase-change materials, and Super-Turing AI that aim to close this gap.

This paper introduces Augmented Sparse Encoding Models to interpret brain responses to language using sparse features from language models, validated on high-field 7T fMRI data. It recovers known neural tuning properties and discovers a new voxel population tuned to people-related content.

Neuronal proteins from the brain drain to the dura, skull, and nose, whereas injected CSF-tracer accumulates in neck lymph nodes. The study highlights that the act of injection may perturb the system under investigation.