brain

What the brain's wiring looks like

The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.

It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.

Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.

I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.

Computer games

Moderate drinking may alter brain, study says

Many doctors recommend a glass of wine or beer a night as part of diet plans such as the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet, which have been proven to keep your heart and brain healthy. However, a new study suggests that even moderate drinking may not be great for your brain.

Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten

The US and Japanese team found that the brain "doubles up" by simultaneously making two memories of events.

One is for the here-and-now and the other for a lifetime, they found.

It had been thought that all memories start as a short-term memory and are then slowly converted into a long-term one.

Experts said the findings were surprising, but also beautiful and convincing.

'Significant advance'

Two parts of the brain are heavily involved in remembering our personal experiences.

Brain's party noise filter revealed by recordings

Focusing on one conversation in a loud, distracting environment is called "the cocktail party effect".

It is a common festive phenomenon and of interest to researchers seeking to improve speech recognition technology.

Neuroscientists recorded from people's brains during a test that recreated the moment when unintelligible speech suddenly makes sense.

A team measured people's brain activity as the words of a previously unintelligible sentence suddenly became clear when a subject was told the meaning of the "garbled speech".