View allAll Photos Tagged brain
White Brain fungus, Exidia thuretiana, growing in the garden. The fungus, and the dead twig it's growing on, is around 5mm across. 23 February 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
Please contact me to arrange the use of any of my images. They are copyright, all rights reserved.
Mural by IMD1 aka @imd1chicago, seen at 1212 West Hubbard Street in the River West area of Chicago, Illinois.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
I name this stew "Brain Number". Because the spice count will fuck up your head. I swear I can taste the potatoes, carrots, mushroom, tomato-base with a hot-pepper brine. Onions, garlic, ginger and additional seasonings. Good for the soul, will also cause you to sweaaaat.
This is a sequences university project, that I've based around the brain. I've wanted to make my collage and drawn styles compatible for some time, and this is what I've come up with! Brains are pretty cool.
Brain Art showcases prizewinners in the 2012 Brain-Art Competition that honors outstanding visualizations of brain research data. The works are by John Van Horn (US), Neda Jahanshad (US), Betty Lee (US), Daniel Margulies (US) and Alexander Schäfer (DE).
credit: John Van Horn
This is a scan of my brain I received for participating in a memory study at my alma mater, Southern Illinois University. This is also the image that Lifehacker used in their post 'Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It)' (http://lifehacker.com/5611547/top-10-ways-your-brain-is-sabotaging-you-and-how-to-beat-it?skyline=true&s=i)
Any Salukis visiting from the LH article? Message me!
Your DNA forms thousands of loops, like those of a shoe lace. Just as you learned to tie your shoes by forming separate "bunny ear" loops of string, your DNA forms many of these loops to create genetic neighborhoods within each bunny ear loop. These neighborhoods bring distant genes and specific gene control switches into close proximity. Genetic neighborhoods can be autonomous and remain separate from other neighborhoods.
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.
At the UCSF Decoding the Brain Academy last night, Dr. Tomasz Nowakowski plotted the progress of neurons sequenced over time, including the project planned for 2025. It has been following a Moore’s Law-like exponential curve for a decade now. So, we should have a sequence of every one of the 86 billion neurons in a human brain by 2032, and maybe all the glial cells too.
Why sequence every cell? The genetic makeup varies, as does the methylation. On the left, you can see clustering analysis of 121 different cell types in the thalamus alone. Out neurons are very different, and they vary over time. I was reminded of an amazing discovery Ed Boyden of MIT shared with me — they found HIV-like encodings being expressed in human neurons. This might be a transposon-like viral vector for horizontal gene transfer in the brain. This is a controversial finding, partially because it is difficult to detect the signal from the noise of the delta from the human reference genome, which is still Craig Venter. I asked Ed how many neuron types does he suspect we’ll find? “An infinite number. They are all different.”
When we asked Nowakowski about the compute capacity of a neuron, he lit up with excitement. By analogy to our machine learning neural nets with back prop, we now know that our neurons don’t just adjust weights at the synapse. Firing-feedback adjusts the weights in all of the ~1000 inputs embedded in the dendrite of each neuron. This is called synaptic tagging, and it serves as an overlay to the relaxation back to a nominal rate of firing, a process that is not fully understood.
From the other speakers on stage, left to right:
• Shawn Hervey-Jumper: in 50 years of neurosurgery advances, we have added just 4 months to expected lifespan
• Mercedes Paredes: in the pre-natal and infant brain (up to 6 months), neurons migrate great distances (1-10cm) by sending out an axon and pulling the neuron cell body along, a sequence of push and pulls. For a sense of scale, if the neuron was a car, it is like driving across America. How do they navigate over these distances?
• Christine Liu: We can keep brain tissues alive for weeks now (for glass probe insertion into neural cell bodies). Learning how to juggle can increase cortical thickness by 3%.
During the production of 'Brain Houses', we used this diagram to work out the complexity of having multiple and intersecting tales to tell. It helped us to keep traces of every single branch of the three main narratives and to select the ones to hold or the ones that were needed to be excluded.
Beyond that, these types of diagram (or gameboards, as we very much like to call them) fullfil an other important function: they are our only interface between us and the client. To us, drawing the diagram for them and put it in the middle of the table as a 'discussion plan', turned out to be a very effective method to achieve validation on our work.
You can see the final visualization here www.flickr.com/photos/densitydesign/5487193848/
And read the full story here www.densitydesign.org/research/brain-houses-three-interie...
Because I felt a bit guilty into giving the Count a chocolaty overdose I ventured outside into a local garden to collect some herbs that would make the Counts tummy feel better.
But when I stepped onto the soft green grass I came upon a terrible monstrosity!
A Pumpkin Brain!
Had the Halloween decorations and provider of yummy soup began to evolve? Was the Earth in terrible danger? Pumpkins with brains… what where they up to.
I quickly hopped into safety, getting Thwack ready…
If the Pumpkin Brains planned to take over this planet, they would have to get through me first!
Beware pumpkins, beware…