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Taking The “Ifs” Off Cognitive Decline

Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT wrote 3 hours ago: www.heart-valve-surgery.com The human brain, when properly functioning, is a complex mass of protopl … more →

Tags: Memory, Alzheimer's, brain plasticity, Cerebral Hemisphere, Clinical Trials, Cognitive decline, dementia, human brain, mental activity

Nobody has Ever Been or Had a Self

siconroy wrote 4 hours ago: ‘I will try and convince you that there is no such thing as a self. Contrary to what most peop … more →

Tags: Mindfulness, NLP, Conscious and Unconscious, Psychology, .conscious., Ego-Tunnel, Thomas Metzinger, Self

Charlie Rose in conversation with V.S. Ramachandran

manwithoutqualities wrote 17 hours ago: V.S. is always good value for money – his enthusiasm is palpable. Click photo to view video. … more →

Tags: Brain Damage, Brain Science, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Connectionism, Consciousness, Evolutionary Biology, Mirror Neurons, neurobiology

Rap Phonics Rhapsody: Eating the Alphabet and Spitting it Out

Joe Linker wrote 1 day ago: If the vowels decide to strike, we can probably keep the machines running, but if we lose the conson … more →

Tags: writing, Reading, James Joyce, reading crisis, the frontal cortex, Art Levine, Nicholas Lehman, Phonics, whole language

How many calories does thinking produce? Interesting question gets scientific answer...

1websurfer wrote 1 day ago: Image via Wikipedia A question posted by Teddy, a science graduate of UC Santa Barbara asked this qu … more →

Tags: Science, Thought, Question, Answer, brain, human brain, Harvard University, Biology, magnetic resonance imaging

Noteworthy nugget: Eye to brain to computer screen

Jo Jordan wrote 2 days ago: As we approach the end of 2008, yes, Japanese neuroscientists are able to recreate what we see from … more →

Tags: Science & Technology, brain scans, Cognitive Psychology, future of psychology, MRI

Project H.M. & Clive Wearing's Diaries

Maria P. wrote 2 days ago: Project H.M. H.M. is considered to be one of the most famous cases in neuropsychology. His dense amn … more →

Tags: Psychology, cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, brain, Links, amygdala, Memory, amnesia, Neuropsychology

The Role of Rumination in Anger1 comment

profmccaffrey wrote 2 days ago: Most of us can agree that anger usually doesn’t solve or make a situation better. In fact anger has … more →

Tags: 1, shy, shyness, social phobia, Psychology, Research, Social Anxiety, anxiety, Forgiveness

ADHD

chetoro wrote 2 days ago: There is no such syndrom as ADHD. It is a fraud a myth helping despaired people with pseudosientific … more →

Tags: Psychology, ADHD

Exercising ADHD away?

monado wrote 2 days ago: Bicycling has an article about a young man who controls attention deficit and hyperactivity through … more →

Tags: Science, Exercise

Sticky neurons1 comment

Vitorino Ramos wrote 3 days ago: Time-lapse imaging in live zebrafish embryos reveals that cerebellar granule cells migrate in chain- … more →

Tags: General, Stigmergy, self-organization, Complex Systems, Biology, Self-regulation, Self-Organization and Stigmergy, ant colonies, structural complexity

All About the Mountain4 comments

danirunner wrote 3 days ago: The JFK50 for 2009 has been run.  It was a challenge to be sure.  For starters, we ran over a mounta … more →

Tags: Food, Ultramarathons, gear, Weather, Locations, Dreams, Goals

The Imprecision of Language in Science, especially Neuroscience

un1crom wrote 3 days ago: A friend recently sent me this nifty article. Here are some of my favorite snippets. On “knowl … more →

Tags: analysis of behavior, Behavior, Biology, brain, computation, science, cousciousness, language, Science

Mind of an actor

scientiste wrote 3 days ago: Just a heads up I will not be posting over Thanksgiving weekend. For now, a cool article from the BB … more →

Tags: Biology, Medical Imaging, Actor, BBC, neurobiology, Science, Theater

A Different Brain: Reinventing Neuroscience from the Bottom Down

Joe Linker wrote 3 days ago: We saw Robert B. Laughlin lecture in Portland in 2005. It was Eric’s idea. He was taking a high scho … more →

Tags: writing, Reading, Robert B. Laughlin

Is the Calyx of Held a Fail-Safe Synapse?

kristencarlson wrote 3 days ago: Describes two sets of experiments to see whether the large, bulbous calyx of Held is a true “f … more →

Edge In Paris: SIGNATURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS — A TALK BY STANISLAS DEHAENE

Spaceweaver wrote 3 days ago: “For the past twelve years”, says Dehaene, “my research team has been using every … more →

Tags: Brain Neuroscience, Consciousness, brain, conciousness

Synapse #fail, Science #win1 comment

kubke wrote 4 days ago: The endbulb or calyx of Held is a very large synapse found in the auditory system. It consists of a … more →

Tags: Science, Biology, hearing, Methods, research blogging, Review

How the Brain Filters out Distracting Thoughts

huehueteotl wrote 4 days ago: The human brain is bombarded with all kinds of information, from the memory of last night’s de … more →