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Articles from Forbes Re-published articles I have written for Forbes
Gabriel A. Silva
A New Study Suggests Humans Prefer AI Over Human Written Poems — Do You?A recent peer-reviewed study published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported on in NewScientist suggests that, in general, humans…
Nov 23, 2024
Nov 23, 2024
Gabriel A. Silva
What Is Emergence In Complex Systems — And How Physics Can Explain ItThe concept of ‘emergence’ in complex systems has been the subject of extensive study and is important in the natural and physical…
Aug 2, 2024
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Aug 2, 2024
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Gabriel A. Silva
A New Treatment For Alzheimer’s Improves How Drugs Reach The BrainAlzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that, in advanced stages, devastates memory and cognitive functions. Despite much…
Jan 28, 2024
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Jan 28, 2024
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Gabriel A. Silva
Re-Thinking The ‘When’ And ‘How’ Of Brain DeathIn an article published yesterday in MIT Technology Review, Rachel Nuwer wrote a thought provoking piece exploring the boundaries between…
Nov 29, 2023
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Nov 29, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
Procyon Photonics — The High School Run Start Up That Could Revolutionize ComputingFounded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical…
Oct 8, 2023
Oct 8, 2023
Gabriel A. Silva
The Brain Technology Treating Neurological Disorders That Will Benefit From AIDeep brain stimulation is a surgically implantable medical device that selectively electrically stimulates the brain to treat certain types…
Jul 10, 2023
Jul 10, 2023
Gabriel A. Silva
Canadian Wildfires Are Affecting Millions — How Exposure To Wildfire Smoke Affects Your BrainThe National Weather Service issued warnings on Wednesday to over 80 million Americans across the Midwest, Northeast and Appalachian…
Jul 5, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
SARS-CoV-2 Fuses Brain Cells — A Cause of COVID Brain Fog?A research paper published last week in Science Advances, and a related story about it in Science, reported a previously unknown effect…
Jun 27, 2023
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Jun 27, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
Why It’s Difficult To Predict Where GPT And Other Generative AI Might Take UsDerek Thompson published an essay in the Atlantic last week that pondered an intriguing question: “When we’re looking at generative AI…
Apr 4, 2023
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Apr 4, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
The ChatGPT Debate: Are We Intelligent Enough To Understand ‘Intelligence’In the 2016 science fiction drama Arrival about first contact with aliens, the movie’s two protagonists, a linguist and a physicist, meet…
Mar 22, 2023
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Mar 22, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
Why Some Individuals Can’t ‘See’ Anything When They Close Their EyesAs you read this, take a quick look around and pick an object that catches your eye. Give it a good look. Stare at it for a while. Now…
Jan 5, 2023
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Jan 5, 2023
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Gabriel A. Silva
Personalized Neuroscience: Are Human-Derived Brain Organoids The Answer?Imagine a futuristic society capable of curing devastating neurological disorders by recreating the brains’ of patients in a dish. Doing so…
Dec 30, 2022
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Dec 30, 2022
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Gabriel A. Silva
‘Thinkers And Innovators’: How Radicle Science Is Pioneering Proof-As-A-Service For Clinical TrialsPelin Wood Thorogood is a tech executive turned impact entrepreneur who co-founded Radicle Science in 2018, an AI-driven health technology…
Nov 24, 2022
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Nov 24, 2022
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Gabriel A. Silva
What Exactly Are All Those Electrical Impulses In Your Brain? — Part IIThis is the second in a series of articles explaining — using plain English — what exactly are the electrical impulses in your brain…
Aug 26, 2022
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Aug 26, 2022
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Gabriel A. Silva
What Exactly Are All Those Electrical Impulses In Your Brain?As you read these words, billions upon billions of electrical impulses are flying through your brain. In a complex symphony of activity all…
Aug 12, 2022
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Aug 12, 2022
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Gabriel A. Silva
How ‘Dormant’ Cells In The Aging Brain Contribute To Cognitive DeclineCognitive decline and forgetting things as we get older is almost a right of passage. All those ‘senior moments’ seem like an unavoidable…
Feb 7, 2022
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Feb 7, 2022
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Gabriel A. Silva
UCSF Aims To Re-Think Neuroscience Research With Its New BuildingModern day science tends to be highly interdisciplinary. It increasingly requires different technical topics, skills, and expertise to come…
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Gabriel A. Silva
What Is Nanotechnology And How Is It Impacting Neuroscience?Nanotechnology is one of those buzz words that can seem kind of difficult to pin down. So what exactly is it? For example, how does it…
Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021
Gabriel A. Silva
Going To The Moon And Mars: How Will Astronauts’ Brains Be Affected?Over the next few years human exploration of our nearby solar system neighborhood may go from what was science fiction just a handful of…
May 19, 2021
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May 19, 2021
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Gabriel A. Silva
How Your Brain Makes Decisions Impacts How It Evaluates (Mis)InformationHow do you judge if something is factual? How do you make the decision to accept a statement as being true, versus it being misleading or…
May 25, 2021
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May 25, 2021
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