by Lance | Articles, Memory, Sleep
Scientists have long known that memories are consolidated during sleep. This long term memory formation happens during the non REM sleep phases of our sleep. The same neural pathways activated during sleep that was activated during the activity or event. The memory is... by Todd | Gamma Waves, Healing, Knowledge, Memory
In March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering strobe. The mice — which had been engineered to produce plaques of the peptide amyloid-β in the brain, a... 
by Todd | Gamma Waves, Healing, Memory, Research
In a mouse model, researchers mitigated three Alzheimer’s disease–associated symptoms by stimulating gamma waves with light. When brain cells fire rhythmically and in sync, they produce waves, which are categorized by their firing frequencies. Delta waves (1.5 Hz to 4... by Todd | Healing, Intelligence, Kids, Meditation, Memory, Research
Throughout time, people have learned to enjoy our brains’ natural tendency to synchronize with pleasant rhythmic stimulation. Whether it is the beating of drums around campfires in aboriginal cultures, disco dancing to throbbing music and synchronized strobe lights in... by Todd | Gamma Waves, Memory, Research, Theta Waves
We observed robust coupling between the high- and low-frequency bands of ongoing electrical activity in the human brain. In particular, the phase of the low-frequency theta (4 to 8 hertz) rhythm modulates power in the high gamma (80 to 150 hertz) band of the... 
by Todd | Memory, Phosphenes, Research
Our visual system not only mediates information about the visual environment but also is capable of generating pictures/lights of nonexistent visual worlds within the brain as afterimages, illusions, phosphenes, dream pictures, visual hallucination, and visual...