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This striking Vivid installation illustrates the complexity and connectivity of the human brain. It's the creation of industrial design firm Amigo and Amigo and technology company S1T2, and explores the effects of Alzheimer's disease on electrochemical activity in the brain (not to mention the camera's colour sensors).
Touching the sculpture triggers a colour response. Purple light represents the emergence of Alzheimer’s disease. When the purple path reaches a neuron, it disconnects, signifying that memories will be lost.
For the technically minded, "Affinity" features Onled LED's lighting and 19 Intel Galileo boards in an interactive display using over 56 colours, 114 capacitive sensors and 4200 meters of LED strip lighting. There are 70 balls each with six sensors, and about 48 arms.
Mind over mining.
This is meant to depict a neuron blasting apart an algorithmic strip mine. Full description below.
From the Uncanny Valley AI art exhibit at the de Young Museum in SF.
... sorry, I didn't note the sculptor of this one.
While we were there some kids tried to twang some of the tendrils. Security told them to stop and they wandered away.
LOOK KG 243 racer from late 1990's built with Columbus Neuron steel. Components are generally 2000's - but a mix of new and old.
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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Neuron projections from the visual cortex have been known to extend to cells of the brainstem that regulate innate motor behaviors. This image shows a neuron projection from the visual cortex of a mouse.
More information: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/visual-cortex-plays...
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Credit: Dr. Massimo Scanziani
NIH funding from: National Eye Institute (NEI)
This composite image shows two neurons in the locust brain (one colored orange, one colored blue) that process information about odors.
Credit: Mark Stopfer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Sprouting connections in the brain: Adding GDF10 to neurons in a dish results in the formation of new connections between brain cells. This process may lead to recovery after stroke.
More information: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/scientists-identify...
Courtesy of S. Thomas Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles
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NIH funding from: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Hand stitched and bound shibori techniques on habotai silk
Image: Pinegate Photographics, Cardiff
Endogenous, meaning ‘from within’, refers to her own Endogenous Depression, but also to the act of giving her inner-most feelings a physical form. This series of sculptures has become the means by which she externalises her continuing battle with depression. Whilst the sculptures represent her inner self, bound by the constraints of depression, their inherent purity and beauty are a testament to the new confidence and inner peace she has gained through her art.
The act of hand stitching and binding the fabric is as important to her as the resulting sculpture. The concept of “the hand healing the mind” is a significant aspect of her work; the repetitive rhythmical action of stitching or binding the cloth being a meditative one. By becoming “one with the cloth” one is taken out of oneself. The act of engaging with the cloth removes one from depressive self-absorption. The realisation of her own depression has led to her preoccupation with how other sufferers envision their own condition. Her resolve is to explore/record these through an extensive series of sculptural pieces.
Her work records the actions found within shibori; stitching, binding, gathering, manipulating and folding - not through the expected dye process, but purely as texture and form. It was whilst in Japan as part of her Embroiderers' Guild mature scholarship studies (May/June 2002) that she first observed the artisans who had spent their entire lives manipulating cloth prior to its being dyed. As a trained musician, she was fascinated to see that the repetitive shibori actions were not only represented on the cloth as pattern and texture, but were also imprinted upon the artisans hands and minds. She wished to learn more about these traditional techniques in order that these skills would not be lost with the passing generations, whilst at the same time developing her own personal shibori vocabulary suitable for the 21st Century.
Neuronal circuits in the mouse retina. Cone photoreceptors (red) enable color vision; bipolar neurons (magenta) relay information further along the circuit; and a subtype of bipolar neuron (green) helps process signals sensed by other photoreceptors in dim light.
Melanie Samuel, a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and who received a 2016 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, wants to learn to reprogram the connections, or synapses, of brain circuits that function less well in aging and disease and limit our memory and ability to learn.
More information: directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/07/13/creative-minds-reprogram...
Credit: Brian Liu and Melanie Samuel, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
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NIH support from: National Eye Institute; Common Fund
Taken at SFU's cellular neuroscience lab (Silverman Lab) under fluorescent microscope (therefore no EXIF)
Neurons were stained using the following markers:
(MAP2 cyan and Synapsin pink)
The best way to study something is usually to look at it directly, but that can be difficult when it comes to studying nerve cells. That’s why a team of NIH researchers developed a way to take cells from an animal’s or person’s skin and turn them into stem cells, which can then be coaxed to develop into sensory neurons like this one. The process enables researchers to directly examine the behavior of neurons with the same #genes as the skin cells’ original donor.
Credit: NCCIH/NIH
Signals called neuregulin (red) and ErbB4 (green) are captured in neurons. The cell nucleus (magenta) and MAP2 (blue) also are shown.
Credit: T. Ahmed, A. Buonanno, National institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
'SOMA' is a representation of two neurons communicating with each other, magnified to monumental proportions. Erected along the Embarcadero on San Francisco's waterfront, it prompts us to ask fundamental questions about neurological transmission and how it translates into human thought and consciousness. How can simple electrical impulses, which individually seem so small and inconsequential, come together to create something as incomparably complex as the human mind?
This large-scale work of interactive art was created by a group called 'The Flaming Lotus Girls', a San Francisco-based volunteer organization. The group combines sculpture, kinetics, robotics, pyrotechnics and electronics to inspire and invite viewers into an environment of participation.
Seen in the background is the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the 'Bay Bridge'. The western section of the bridge, in view here, is officially known as the 'Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge' after the former San Francisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker. It connects downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island. The recently rebuilt eastern, and as yet unnamed, portion of the bridge connects Yerba Buena Island to the City of Oakland.
In this image: Two different groups of parabrachial neurons, one expressing calcitonin gene-related peptide (green) and the other expressing substance P (red).
Exposure to uncomfortable sensations elicits a wide range of appropriate and quick reactions, from reflexive withdrawal to more complex feelings and behaviors. To better understand the body’s innate response to harmful activity, researchers at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified activity in the brain that governs these reactions.
Read more: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-explains-beha...
Credit: Arnab Barik, Chesler Laboratory, NCCIH, NIH
Neurosphere composed of neural precursor cells as captured by a fluorescent microscope. The cells, allowed to attach to a substrate, have begun to send out long processes that will eventually become the axons of the mature neurons.
The image was taken in the lab of Martin Pera at the University of Southern California.
Learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research: www.cirm.ca.gov
LOOK KG 243 racer from late 1990's built with Columbus Neuron steel. Components are generally 2000's - but a mix of new and old.
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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Okay, now for something completely different from my usual subject matter. This is actually a leaf from my yard, photographed with some makeshift closeup gear. Other than adjusting the white balance (since this was shot in RAW), this is straight out of the camera - never even opened in Photoshop.
The bizarre effect comes from the lighting used and the lens setup I was using - that plus the natural decay of the leaf. I thought it looked pretty cool, so I figured I'd post it here, even though I was just playing around.
A section of the auditory nerve in a young adult mouse. The supporting glial cells (blue) coat neuron fibers (red) and allow fast, reliable transfer of sound information from the ear to the brain. Researchers are testing whether they can target glial cells to prevent neural loss and restore hearing.
Credit: Hainan Lang, M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina
NIH support from: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, MAY 25, 2015: Tourists and local public enjoy the Affinity installation at Vivid Sydney, which depict the dazzling complexity and connectivity of the human brain and neurons. When stimulated by touch, the orbs set-up a striking display of sound and light. People in motion. Artists: amigo & amigo (Simone Chua & Renzo B. Larriviere ) + S1T2 (Chris Panzetta & Naimul Khaled)
LOOK KG 243 racer from late 1990's built with Columbus Neuron steel. Components are generally 2000's - but a mix of new and old.
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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