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The Brain Elastic
Electrodes that stimulate brain tissue reveal the topography of conscious experience. Applying electric currents reveals the function of varying brain regions and helps to alleviate neurological disorders
Article by Christof Koch, Illustration by Zara Piken
Researchers pinpoint brain circuitry underlying dissociative experiences
Stanford scientists identified brain circuitry that plays a role in the mysterious experience called dissociation, in which people can feel disconnected from their bodies and reality.
Study shows why even well-controlled epilepsy can disrupt thinking
Transient bursts of high-frequency electrical activity in epileptic brain tissue can impair cognition even when no seizure is occurring, Stanford scientists have found.
Stanford researchers listen for silent seizures with "brain stethoscope" that turns brain waves into sound
By converting brain waves into sound, even non-specialists can detect “silent seizures” – epileptic seizures without the convulsions most of us expect.
- 09/16/2020 Researchers pinpoint brain circuitry underlying dissociative experiences, Stanford News
- 10/16/2019 Study shows why even well-controlled epilepsy can disrupt thinking, Stanford News
- 03/20/2018 Stanford researchers listen for silent seizures with "brain stethoscope" that turns brain waves into sound, Stanford News
- 6/23/2017 Josef Parvizi, an interview, Neuron
- 12/8/2016 Study establishes extent of human brain excited by specific dose of electricity, Stanford Medicine
- 4/14/2015 No Rest For Your Sleeping Brain, NPR
- 4/9/2015 Study Deciphers "Noise" in Human Brain During Sleep, Sleep Review
- 4/8/2015 Study deciphers the noise in the human brain, Stanford Medicine
- 1/28/2014 Stanford team helps woman battle epileptic seizures, ABC
- 12/9/2013 Epilepsy Patients Help Decode The Brain's Hidden Signals, NPR
- 12/9/2013 Will to Persevere Can Be Triggered by Electric Stimulation, Scientific American
- 12/5/2013 'Determination' can be induced by electrical brain stimulation, The Guardian
- 12/5/2013 Need Some Resilience? A Few Zaps of Electricity Might Help, Time.com
- 12/5/2013 Electric Brain Stimulation Triggers Eye-of-the-Tiger Effect, National Geographic
- 10/22/2013 Epilepsy opens a new window into brain function, San Francisco Chronicle
- 10/15/2013 Watch specialised number neurons in action, NewScientist
- 10/15/2013 Brain Implants Can Detect Mathematical Thinking, MIT Tech Review
- 10/15/2013 Finally, a Way to Read Minds, Time
- 10/15/2013 Can brain scientists read your mind?, CNN Health
- 10/9/2013 "Brain Stethescope" Turns Brain Waves Into Music, NBC
- 10/8/2013 Turning brain waves into music helps spot seizures, San Francisco Chronicle
- 10/02/2013 The eerie music you're about to hear is actually a brain while it's experiencing a seizure, The Blaze
- 10/01/2013 Seizures Turned into Music With Help of 'Brain Stethoscope', Huffington Post
- 9/24/2013 Stanford scientists build a 'brain stethoscope' to turn seizures into music, Stanford News
- 9/23/2013 Epilepsy Reveals the Brain in Action, KQED Science
- 5/07/2013 Numeral Hotspot, Science Update, (AAAS) American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 4/23/2013 Your Brain on Math, TIME
- 4/18/2013 Scientists May Have Spotted Brain's 'Numbers Center', US News
- 4/18/2013 Number recognition: Researchers discover math center in the brain, Spiegel
- 4/17/2013 Scientists locate brain 'hot spot' responsible for numeral recognition, Fox News
- 4/17/2013 Scientists Indentify brain area involved in recognition of numbers, ABC.es
- 4/16/2013 We've got your number: Exact spot in brain where numeral recognition takes place revealed, Stanford Medicine Scope
- 4/16/2013 Scientists Pinpoint Brain's Area for Numeral Recognition, Science Daily
- 11/20/2012 Perception: Facing Reality, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- 10/26/2012 'Face blindness' clues uncovered with new brain-zapping test, NBC News
- 10/24/2012 Electrical Stimulation of Human Fusiform Face-Selective Regions Distorts Face Perception, Journal of Neuroscience
- 10/24/2012 Facial Recognition: Fusiform Gyrus Brain Region 'Solely Devoted' to Faces, Study Suggests, Huffington Post
- 10/24/2012 Nerve Clusters May Hold Clues to Facial Blindness, Fox News
- 10/24/2012 Changing Faces: Stimulating the Brain Morphs People's Faces Before Patient's Eyes, Time.com
- 10/24/2012 Brain Zapping Study Sheds Light on Facial Blindness, ABC News
- 10/23/2012 Identifying the Brain's Own Facial Recognition System, Science Magazine
- 10/23/2012 Electrical stimulation of brain area causes strange visual illusions, LA Times
- 10/23/2012 Faces 'Morphed' for Man When Scientists Tweaked His Brain Study gives insights into how humans recognize other individuals, U.S News
- 10/23/2012 Precisely Targeted Electrical Brain Stimulation Alters Perception of Faces, Scientists Find, Inside Stanford Medicine
- 10/23/2012 Study Gives Insight into Facial Recognition, SF Gate
- 9/4/2012 Mathematics or Memory? Study charts collision course in brain, Inside Stanford Medicine
- 9/4/2012 Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Holland, Italy, Brazil
12/6/2011 'Laughing Seizures' Patients Shed Light on Laughter's Origins, Fox News
12/5/2011 A Clue Found to Seizures that Cause Helpless Giggles, NBC News
12/4/2011 Pinpointing the Laughter Zone, Brainstorm Blog by Gordy Slack
6/29/2010 A Cortical Atlas of Ghostly Sensations, Mindhacks