@cdarwin@c.imA new clinical tool called the
Brain Care Score
is giving researchers and patients a measurable, actionable framework for reducing the risk of dementia
— even among those with a strong family history of the disease.
Neurologist Dr. Jonathan Rosand,
a leading figure in brain health research,
has been at the forefront of developing and promoting this scoring system, which translates complex neuroscience into everyday lifestyle guidance.
The tool repr…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(2022) Using the Orion brain implant for restoring vision, "Three years on, I can now make out fireworks, the birthday candles on my cake, and spot the lights and darks when doing laundry." https://www.thatslife.com.au/real-life/brain-implant-blindness…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCan red-light therapy treat brain injuries? Some research shows 'striking' results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7581642/2026/09/11/red-light-therapy-brain-injuries-journal-of-neurotrama/
@eyebee@mstdn.socialYour brain runs on 20 watts of power. Could brain-inspired computing do the same?
https://theconversation.com/your-brain-runs-on-20-watts-could-brain-inspired-computing-do-the-same-292048?ref=refind&…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress https://www.earth.com/lifestyle/nature-does-something-surprising-to-the-brain-beyond-relieving-stress/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toTurns out that ChatGPT could not access the white paper on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html The problem is fixed now.
@scott@carfree.citynot gonna be my top issue this election because my focus is guaranteeing $100m a year for affordable housing (yes on I!), but
the car-brain push to turn Sunset Dunes back into a road is very dumb!
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-prop-g-great-h…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTroy Aikman confesses about his "ridiculous" daily routine to protect brain after surviving 10 career concussions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/troy-aikman-concussions-daily-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
@seeingwithsound@mas.to[mostly AI generated, but valid] Neuralink's Blindsight deadline has passed, a fake 'blind cat' story filled the gap, and Huberman says writing to the brain is the hard part https://aishiftnews.ca/new…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Oct: What's a turn of phrase you've 'inherited' from someone else?
My brain is like a tombola. Stuff goes in, gets tossed around, and something falls out that may look familiar. I rarely know where it came from, I just fall in love with something and adopt it. After overusing it, it will either move into my permanent vocabulary or get stuffed in …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThe problem with adaptive DBS https://tmrwedition.com/2026/09/12/the-problem-with-adaptive-dbs/ Critique on closed-loop brain stimulation for treating Parkinson's disease: over-reliance on the beta signal. Should also monitor tremor, gait, balance and dyskinesia fo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
https://fortune.c…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMatt was a long time hero of mine. It's been wild to watch his brain cook and totally fall from a place of being worth any respect over the last few years.
I think I have 2 - 3 people remaining from the early web I still look too and I wish them luck.
And I wish myself luck in seeing people make mistakes and still finding value in their good ideas.
@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizzaThe Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-aging-brain-isnt-declining-its-adapting-study-finds
@newsie@darktundra.xyzBehind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-rare-books-and-baseball-brain/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588451-bursts-of-pink-noise-during-sleep-seem-to-help-flush-waste-from-brain/ (archived at
@mia@hcommons.socialDopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/
@servelan@newsie.socialMale Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom - Slashdot
https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/2022239/male-fruit-fly-brain-trained-to-play-doom
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaIn high school I had an excellent English teacher who had very high standards that I respected very much. However, she did teach us that, when doing parenthetical, to put punctuation on the inside. (For a sentence such as this, it does make some sense.) This never sat well with my math/programming brain.
What do you think (given that an inline parenthetical with inside punctuation looks like this?)
#poll
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialPlease read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html
@tux0r@layer8.spaceAus aktuellem Anlass eine Studie von 2025:
ChatGPT macht Sie alle dumm.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @seeingwithsound@mas.toThe vOICe vision BCI depends on third-party academic studies as well as blind end users for establishing credibility and demonstrating functional benefit. There is no funding for clinical studies tied to the project itself. In other words, we need you! https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html
@cdarwin@c.imWork is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Black Tones:
🎵 Brain Brain
#TheBlackTones
https://theblacktones.bandcamp.com/track/brain-brain-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/63DlLGo9bejA0zzDVKj2RI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWe see with our brain, not our eyes: Seeing through the tongue https://drtraster.substack.com/p/we-see-with-our-brain-not-our-eyes "How Paul Bach-y-Rita's research revealed the brain's ability to interpret visual information through touch."
@samvarma@fosstodon.org"Hindbrain" is going to be a pretty epic insult
Human brain is two separate organs, research finds https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-human-brain.html
@steve@s.yelvington.com @stargazersmith@social.linux.pizzaHaving tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaI really have a love/hate relationship with specifications. They are so taxing to write for my executive dysfunction riddled brain, but also "Look at it go, generating a 60 pages LaTeX document with all the features and diagrams and the comments and everything I have made and everything I need to make"
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debudapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…
@servelan@newsie.socialCan Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries? - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/2037218/can-red-light-therapy-treat-brain-injuries
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhat happens during the 1st millisecond of electrical stimulation of the brain? https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/1st-millisecond-of-electrical-stimulation by TK Kozai in the "Why BCIs Fail" series; "We put the charge in one place and the brain l…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngHologram's Solstice (2018) is just what my ADHD brain needs today to remain calm... Melodic, rhythmic & aural evolving complexity of the finest synthetic vintage... (Headphones recommended)
https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/track/solstice
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#PennedPossibilities 151: What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural?
Prefrontal Cortex is mostly concerned with if it can be categorised, entered into a spreadsheet, or labelled. There are others in the Mansion who would want to voice their opinions, of course because the brain is complex and confusing, but Prefrontal Cortex has …
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaOn the seductive promise of phrenology and its progeny
https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/popular_science
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThe plague stalking pro football
Apple News, The Week, Health & Science
Excerpt From
“The plague stalking pro football”
The Week (1304)
https://apple.news/AsYtB6G95RDOnrsx0CMI1NA
This material may be protected by copyright.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe brain computer is ternary!
RADIX WAS NOT VALUED!
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialOne brain-imaging study indicated that past versions of ourselves compress in our minds, similarly to how faraway objects blur in the distance.
@mia@hcommons.socialDopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to @cdarwin@c.imNew research shows that what we call the human brain is actually two ancient, independent nervous systems assembled side by side over hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history.
“We’ve shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain,”
said Kyle Loh, Ph.D., associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford Medicine and senior author of the study.
“Our discovery means that we can …
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuGood grief, my brain and I don't get along today.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toUpdated the old web page about brain implants and The vOICe vision BCI with a reference to the more recent white paper (living document) about the respective approaches https://www.seeingwithsound.com/etumble.htm
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Black Tones:
🎵 Brain Brain
#TheBlackTones
https://theblacktones.bandcamp.com/track/brain-brain-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/63DlLGo9bejA0zzDVKj2RI
@seeingwithsound@mas.to @seeingwithsound@mas.toThe vOICe vision BCI depends on third-party academic studies as well as on blind end users for establishing credibility and demonstrating functional benefit. There is no funding for clinical studies tied to the project itself. In other words, we need you! https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
@mia@hcommons.social'How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian': Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.
(Do people really cite articles they haven't read, as in the opening story?)
https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-a
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep https://news.mit.edu/2026/pink-noise-burst-may-mean-more-restorative-sleep-0909
@cdarwin@c.imIt has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toVery interesting article on the possible (ab)use of consumer BCI devices for harvesting incriminating evidence by state authorities or other parties https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-10-11-un-secretary-general-guter…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#Paradromics on brain vision https://paradromics.com/platform/#brain-vision "Send visual information directly to the brain to restore sight and potentially enable new forms of vision, from e…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#Paradromics: Long-term preclinical data show sustained signal quality and decoding performance https://paradromics.com/news/paradromi…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhere #optogenetics is closest to patients: "blind people with retinitis pigmentosa" https://insidebci.com/news/2026-10-07-
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCan a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
@seeingwithsound@mas.toConjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain ma…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toReview of brain-computer interface technology in ophthalmology: Current status, challenges and future directions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667376226000314 Discussing noninvasive BCIs yet not mentioning sensory substitution for vision? Review…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBefore undergoing experimental brain surgery to obtain limited artificial visual information, blind people should have the opportunity to evaluate what they can achieve using inexpensive, non-invasive sensory substitution combined with modern AI assistance.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(2019, Amazon) My brain implant for bionic vision: the first trial of artificial sight for the blind #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThalamic dysconnectivity and negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorder https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.04.756569v1 "highlights specific thalamic subnetworks as potential targets for circuit-based interventions." Phosphoenix opportunity?…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#Subsense: Interview with CEO and co-founder Tetiana Aleksandrova about non-surgical brain-computer interfaces https://pulse2.com/subsense-profile-tetiana-aleksandrova-interview/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAren't you worried about mind control? Limits of brain computer interfaces https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/arent-you-worried-about-mind-control "People keep asking whether writing to the brain means controlling minds."
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFor the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThe 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink) https://www.neurotechmag.com/p/the-60-second-history-of-brain-tech "What happens to a paralyzed patient’s device when the company that made it runs out of funding?"
@seeingwithsound@mas.toGhost in the Shell to Neuralink: Inside the 2026 brain-computer interface trials turning cyberbrains into reality https://goearlybirdlab.com/2026/09/27/ghost-in-the-shell-to-neuralink-inside-the…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toPhase Lock - A manifesto on brain-computer interfaces and preserving human agency in the age of AI https://phaselock.satpugnet.com by @…; "The fastest path to execute this…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThe main contender for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind is not yet another brain implant, but something entirely different that is 100% biocompatible, noninvasive, affordable and scalable https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html
![Opt for The vOICe or opt for a brain implant? [AI-generated video clip]](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/117/376/636/875/992/501/small/c01a5ee6fb99126b.png)
@seeingwithsound@mas.toChinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-23-li-qiang-shanghai-brain-computer-interfaces-blue-oce…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toEthical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toChinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-30-chinese-academy-of-sciences-15th-five-year-plan-bci-priority-field-cebsit-stairm…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toGovernment strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail. #BCI #blindness
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA new framework for how the brain compresses our noisy world https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framework-for-how-the-brain-compresses-our-noisy-world-20260824/ "An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understand…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toPostdoc position at the University of Pittsburgh related to visual cortical prostheses (brain implants for restoring vision) https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external_pd/jobdetail.ftl?job=26005332 via @…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhat if the brain doesn't create consciousness? Christof Koch proposes it might be the fabric of reality itself https://www.sciencealert.com/what-if-the-brain-doesnt-create-consciousness-scientist-proposes-i…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(YouTube, Spanish) UMHTV – Recuperación inesperada de la visión de una persona ciega mediante microestimulación cerebral (Unexpected recovery of vision in a blind person through brain microstimulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLJBxeLo20
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCortigent: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" https://www.cortigent.com/orion Orion brain implant with 60 electrodes (like Argus II retinal implant); Cortigent may lack the resources for a major redesign (upgrade);
@seeingwithsound@mas.to1 big thing: Brain implants stoke U.S.-China rivalry #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.03.742540v1 "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of le…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBuilding brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company https://www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/building-brain-computer-interfaces-at-a-neurotech-company/ on Blackrock Neurotech;
@seeingwithsound@mas.toStanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/stanford-researchers-discover-a-language-specific-network-hidden-in-the-human-brain/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail, versus The vOICe sensory substitution alternative #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toChina clears brain-computer interfaces for commercial use: Is it time for a global coalition? https://thedebrief.org/china-clears-brain-computer-interfaces-for-commercial-use-is-it-time-for-a-global-coalition/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(podcast) The vOICe featured in podcast 2640 "Seeing with sound using vOICe" by Eyes On Success: MP3 download link https://www.eyesonsuccess.net/bin/dlc3.php?get=eos 2640 podcast.mp3&action=download and Show Notes at
@seeingwithsound@mas.toPrimary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss #LGN …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(LinkedIn) Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498061682275950592/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toMerge Labs and Butterfly Network partner to advance ultrasound-based brain-computer interfaces https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260901999280/en/Merge-Labs-and-Butterfly-Network-Partner-t…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toLong-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI
