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Modulating Neural Activity: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain
The human brain is undoubtedly a complex and intricate organ. It governs a wide range of functions, thoughts, and behaviours, all while acting as the central hub for processing information and coordinating the body’s actions. Given its significance, scientists and researchers have dedicated countless hours to unravelling the mysteries of the brain. One promising avenue of exploration in this field is the modulation of neural activity.
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VANNEVAR BUSH PROPOSED THE GLOBAL MEMEX INFORMATION SYSTEM , VLADIMIR ATSYUKOVSKY REVIVED THE THEORY OF THE WORLD ETHER , SCHUMANN PROVED THE EXISTENCE OF PERMANENT STANDING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AROUND THE EARTH CONSISTING OF THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED ETHER . THUS, THE CREATION OF MEMEX IS A FEASIBLE TASK – YOU ONLY NEED TO COUNT THE EEG ACTIVITY OF ALL THE FREQUENCIES OF THE BRAIN IN ONE PERSON AND , PASSING THE RECEIVED THROUGH A FREQUENCY MODULATOR, SPREAD HIS PSYCHE ALL OVER THE PLANET . A PRE-INSTRUCTED “TEST SUBJECT” WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT THE MINDS OF ALL PEOPLE OF THE GLOBE, THANKS TO THE SAME SCHUMANN RESONANCE/STANDING WAVES IN THE ETHER, INTO ONE SINGLE “ARCHPSYCHICS”. THE MEMEX SYSTEM, THUS, REALIZES ITSELF, THANKS TO THE SELF-REFLECTION OF “ARCHPSYCHICS”.
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Human Encouragement Might Influence How Dogs Solve Problems
In the encouragement condition, nine of the search and rescue dogs solved the task, while only two pet dogs did.
The research is in Applied Animal Behaviour Science. (full access paywall)
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Happy #Valentines Day Everybody! Wishing you all the dopamine, norepinephrine and oxytocin feels today! I did this illustration a while back to show what parts of your brain light up when in love. ❤️ #scientificillustration #biology #neroscience
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<p>The brains of children who suffer clinical depression as preschoolers develop differently than those of preschoolers not affected by the disorder, a new study shows.</p> <p>These children’s gray matter—tissue that connects brain cells and carries signals between those cells and is involved in seeing, hearing, memory, decision-making, and emotion—is lower in volume and thinner in the cortex, a part of the brain important in the processing of emotions.</p> <p>“What is noteworthy about these findings is that we are able to see how a life experience—such as an episode of depression—can change the brain’s anatomy,” says first author Joan L. Luby, a professor of child psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis whose earlier research established that children as young as three can experience depression.</p> <p>“Traditionally, we have thought about the brain as an organ that develops in a predetermined way, but our research is showing that actual experience—including negative moods, exposure to poverty, and a lack of parental support and nurturing—have a material impact on brain growth and development.”</p> <p>The researchers determined that having depression was a key factor in gray matter development. In scans of children whose parents had suffered from depression — meaning the kids would be at higher risk — gray matter appeared normal unless the kids had suffered from depression, too.</p> <p>Interestingly, the differences in gray matter volume and thickness typically were more pronounced than differences in other parts of the brain linked to emotions. Luby explains that because gray matter is involved in emotion processing, it is possible some of the structures involved in emotion, such as the brain’s amygdala, may function normally, but when the amygdala sends signals to the cortex—where gray matter is thinner—the cortex may be unable to regulate those signals properly.</p>
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Honestly Mayim Bialik is becoming a real inspiration to me as of late.
Probably because I’m in grad school and if blossom can go get herself a Ph.D. In neuroscience then why can’t I get one in history??
Also I love her modest style. I am all for that.
And her parenting methods
And her vegan life
And her stance on her beliefs.
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…within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.
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The researchers found that the initial duplication process mattered a great deal. When children had drawn a letter freehand, they exhibited increased activity in three areas of the brain that are activated in adults when they read and write: the left fusiform gyrus, the inferior frontal gyrus and the posterior parietal cortex.
By contrast, children who typed or traced the letter or shape showed no such effect. The activation was significantly weaker.
Dr. James attributes the differences to the messiness inherent in free-form handwriting: Not only must we first plan and execute the action in a way that is not required when we have a traceable outline, but we are also likely to produce a result that is highly variable.
That variability may itself be a learning tool. “When a kid produces a messy letter,” Dr. James said, “that might help him learn it.”
Cursive or not, the benefits of writing by hand extend beyond childhood. For adults, typing may be a fast and efficient alternative to longhand, but that very efficiency may diminish our ability to process new information. Not only do we learn letters better when we commit them to memory through writing, memory and learning ability in general may benefit.
With handwriting, the very act of putting it down forces you to focus on what’s important,” he said. He added, after pausing to consider, “Maybe it helps you think better.”
何時教育變成激發創造力和牢記訊息 由神經科學家和心理學家教導我們? (“Neuroscience, power and culture”: a special issue of History of the Human Sciences | Somatosphere)
Reading List: Disease, Drugs, and Public Health | LSE Review of Books
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Complex Problems require Unique Minds: Alix Generous
This is one of my good friends and everyone should take the time to watch this.
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Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness
This is why I can’t choose a major!
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Anatomy of A Brain Fart
Subtitled: When your brain gets bored, it unleashes the stupidest of all stupid mistakes.
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“ On the scorecard the play is marked simply as an “error.” But that hardly conveys the magnitude of the blunder committed by Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley. It is June 12, 2009, in a home game against the Minnesota Twins. Top of the eighth, one out. Bradley catches a routine fly ball. Thinking he has just ended the inning, he tosses the ball into the stands and poses for pictures. Only then does he remember that there are three outs in an inning, not two. The Twins score a run. The Cubbies eventually lose the game.
A rookie mistake? Actually, Bradley was a seasoned pro executing moves he had performed thousands of times. Rather, it is a classic example of a brain fart—an inexplicably stupid error in a straightforward task made by someone with abundant skill and experience. We are all prone to them, although most brain farts are less spectacular (and less humiliating) than Bradley’s—calling your spouse by your ex-spouse’s name, for instance, or zipping straight past the freeway exit that you take every day on your way home from work.
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Seeing in the Dark
This is article is fascinating!! It’s a super short, easy read but completely worthwhile. :)
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MANY OF BUDDHISM’S CORE TENETS SIGNIFICANTLY OVERLAP WITH FINDINGS FROM MODERN NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE.
Science, at least good science, tells us about the world as it is, not as some wish it to be. Sometimes what science finds is consistent with a particular religion’s wishes. But usually not.
Despite my doubts, neurology and neuroscience do not appear to profoundly contradict Buddhist thought. Neuroscience tells us the thing we take as our unified mind is an illusion, that our mind is not unified and can barely be said to “exist” at all. Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc confabulation and is easily fractured into separate parts. As revealed by scientific inquiry, what we call a mind (or a self, or a soul) is actually something that changes so much and is so uncertain that our pre-scientific language struggles to find meaning.
Buddhists say pretty much the same thing. They believe in an impermanent and illusory self made of shifting parts. They’ve even come up with language to address the problem between perception and belief. Their word for self is anatta, which is usually translated as ‘non self.’ One might try to refer to the self, but the word cleverly reminds one’s self that there is no such thing.
When considering a Buddhist contemplating his soul, one is immediately struck by a disconnect between religious teaching and perception. While meditating in the temple, the self is an illusion. But when the Buddhist goes shopping he feels like we all do: unified, in control, and unchanged from moment to moment. The way things feel becomes suspect. And that’s pretty close to what neurologists deal with every day, like the case of Mr. Logosh.
Mr. Logosh was 37 years old when he suffered a stroke. It was a month after knee surgery and we never found a real reason other than trivially high cholesterol and smoking. Sometimes medicine is like that: bad things happen, seemingly without sufficient reasons. In the ER I found him aphasic, able to understand perfectly but unable to get a single word out, and with no movement of the right face, arm, and leg. We gave him the only treatment available for stroke, tissue plasminogen activator, but there was no improvement. He went to the ICU unchanged. A follow up CT scan showed that the dead brain tissue had filled up with blood. As the body digested the dead brain tissue, later scans showed a large hole in the left hemisphere.
Although I despaired, I comforted myself by looking at the overlying cortex. Here the damage was minimal and many neurons still survived. Still, I mostly despaired. It is a tragedy for an 80-year-old to spend life’s remainder as an aphasic hemiplegic. The tragedy grows when a young man looks towards decades of mute immobility. But you can never tell with early brain injuries to the young. I was yoked to optimism. After all, I’d treated him.
The next day Mr. Logosh woke up and started talking. Not much at first, just ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ Then ‘water,’ ‘thanks,’ ‘sure,’ and ‘me.’ We eventually sent him to rehab, barely able to speak, still able to understand.
One year later he came back to the office with an odd request. He was applying to become a driver and needed my clearance, which was a formality. He walked with only a slight limp, his right foot a bit unsure of itself. His voice had a slight hitch, as though he were choosing his words carefully.
When we consider our language, it seems unified and indivisible. We hear a word, attach meaning to it, and use other words to reply. It’s effortless. It seems part of the same unified language sphere. How easily we are tricked! Mr. Logosh shows us that unity of language is an illusion. The seeming unity of language is really the work of different parts of the brain, which shift and change over time, and which fracture into receptive and expressive parts.
Consider how easily Buddhism accepts what happened to Mr. Logosh. Anatta is not a unified, unchanging self. It is more like a concert, constantly changing emotions, perceptions, and thoughts. Our minds are fragmented and impermanent. A change occurred in the band, so it follows that one expects a change in the music.
Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. There is no permanent, constant soul in the background. Even our language about ourselves is to be distrusted (requiring the tortured negation of anatta). In the broadest strokes then, neuroscience and Buddhism agree.
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Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias | TIME
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In fact, a growing body of scientific evidence points to the conclusion that optimism may be hardwired by evolution into the human brain. The science of optimism, once scorned as an intellectually suspect province of pep rallies and smiley faces, is opening a new window on the workings of human consciousness. What it shows could fuel a revolution in psychology, as the field comes to grips with accumulating evidence that our brains aren’t just stamped by the past. They are constantly being shaped by the future.