brain

A question about the workings of the human brain: I play a game on my phone where you're given seven letters and have to place all the words that can be made from them in a crossword grid. As an example, I might get the letters P D N U S O T. I'll find "stop" and "nut" and "oust" and such...

A freind posted this on fb, is it bad science or just bad science journalism or is there possibly anything to it ? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/

Fairly recently, I read or heard a story about a study that seemed to indicate that, during stressful situations, our brains store more images, and that maybe this is why, in our memory, time seems to have slowed. Anyone else hear about this, or was I imagining it? I've spent quite a bit of...

"Large oaks from tiny acorns grow." http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/science/Video+Scientists+create+functioning+virtual+brain+that/7630065/story.html Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Canadian+scientists+create+functioning+virtual+brain/7628972/story.html#ixzz2Duary33S :cool:

It is commonly accepted that the brain, somehow, produces the mind, at least in the JREF of course. If this is the case, where is the mind? It is located in the brain? The experience that makes you feel you, its inside your head? What do you think about it? Discuss.

More at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/2/ Quite scary if true. :scared:

This thread is intended to discuss consciousness from the point of view of biological studies on the brain. It's open to posting of research on the brain, and discussion of that research. Because threads on consciousness tend to get derailed into debates about AI, I feel I must say a couple of...

Some time ago I watched a TED video about extending the human lifespan considerably by developing and utilising technologies to at least slow the ageing process. This made me wonder what it would be like to be (say) 300 years old but living in a body that was still in excellent condition...

According to this article, Parts of the brain shut down when certain people listen to influential people. This could explain why many are not as skeptical as others in certain situations. Perhaps even why normally skeptical people fall for scams.

OK, I admit up front to some poetic license with the thread title, so I hope folks don't get too focused on that, but here's the thing.... Consider some of the great issues of our time: Climate change Energy Environmental degradation Nuclear power and weapons The global economy Stem cell...

When I go through the drive-through at fast-food restaurants these days (as I do far too often), the conversation with the order taker goes something like this: THEY: May I help you? ME: I want a hamburger, fries, and a medium coke. THEY: (After a pause) You want a large diet coke? ME: No, a...

A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams. http://www.physorg.com/news148193433.html Unfortunately the details given of the experiment are scarce and ambiguous: Seems...

A friend sent me this rather cool educational website on the brain from McGill University: The Brain From Top to Bottom. Complete with learning modules at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, on topics ranging from evolution to language to sleep to mental illness. (apologies if this...

I found an article about music which disturbed me... (Please type "cerebromente musica" into Google and go to the first result; I'm still not allowed to post links) What I find especially disturbing about this article is this: What do you think about this? I hadn't really been researching...

Brain patterns predict mistakes: study Tom Eichele of Norway's University of Bergen has discovered that 30 seconds before we make mistakes in routine work, our brain goes into a sort of 'resting mode', which in turn causes us to make the mistake. Excerpts: Very impressive, in my eyes. Could...

Henry Stapp at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has written a paper titled "A Model of the Quantum-Classical and Mind-Brain Connections, and of the Role of The Quantum Zeno Effect in the Physical Implementation of Conscious Intent." It is available here...

I heard an interview on Berkley Groks podcast recently with the woman who co-authored this book: The Body Has a Mind of its Own http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400064694 Very tantalizing stuff about how the brain maps the real world. Anyone out there with expertise...

Here's one to try. Try to remember your first school. Picture the building in your mind.

"This Is Your Brain on Music" is a wonderful look at the brain/mind response to music. Dr. Daniel Levitin has a very accessible and not overly technical look at why and how we respond to music. As a musician, I've found his analyses invaluable, fascinating and very readable. Has anyone else...

Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs Where is your Free Will now, silly philosophers? So, who's surprised by this? Maybe it has something to do with "Stay The Course"? Of course, this just makes me believe even more that politics is less about real problem...

http://www.totalvac.com/parts/EX900-A-TP1.html?zmam=6843742&zmas=1&zmac=7&zmap=EX900-A-TP1 My friend picked up a few of these to fend off spiders, but I can't for the life of me see how it could actually work. How does it scramble spider, roach and rat brains, but not a dog or a cat? It seems...

This is both interesting and worth a chuckle.

Here's an interesting article called "Science of the Soul." It must be so nice to get the "truth" directly from the source.

Professor Levy: We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably...

http://labnotes.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=593703 I am posting this to get the unvarnished, raw opinion of this "No BS allowed" forum.

Let me see if I can say this so other people can understand what I mean. I am sort of a master of tortured writing and sometimes have great trouble expressing simple ideas. I do a lot of technicalish writing for work and I basically suck at it. Nothing seems simple to me. Be that as it...

The adolescent brain develops a bumper crop of THP receptors. It seems to me that this would help an adolescent animal survive in a world where the parent isn't around that much anymore.

This is for a book I'm working on. Just like the title says, generally speaking, at what age do most people's brains stop develping? In other words, at what age do we finally become adults? I've heard that the the age is actually twenty-four (strangely enough, the same age you have to be to...

I've heard that the brain compensates for many things. Why doesn't it compensate for astigmatism?

I'm stunned that this suggests that humans aren't even the first species on earth to evolve complex cognition. It seems like further proof that intelligence isn't limited to a unique unrepeatable hominid experience but it's emergence is inexorable wherever there's an active biosphere, so all the...