brain

Well, just got finished with this thread, I flip up Salon.com, and low and behold, the same assertions: "...at the same university -- they have some chutzpah over there -- the University of Virginia, Ian Stevenson is now retired from the psych department. He's not a Buddhist, he wasn't a Hindu...

I have been unable to find concrete answers, I would like to find out the opinions and references from the JREF Forum. Have there been any cases where the nuclear brain flow study was negative (no brain blood flow) and the patient did not meet the criteria for brain death? (There are reports of...

The brain is endlessly cool and fascinating to me. Apparently there's a part of the brain specifically devoted to recognizing faces. If a lesion appears on that part of the brain, all faces tend to look alike. Also, one can dramatically change a person's personality by placing a lesion on the...

FYI http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/27/mouse.brain.map.reut/index.html My first thought was "wtf" - but apparently their brains and ours are more similar than I figured. No wonder I love running through the hallways looking for large slabs of food. :)

Computers are used to simulate hurricanes for the purpose of comprehending hurricanes and also for the purpose of predicting their behavior. Computers are often used to simulate various phenomena for similar purposes. In the effort to utilize computers as controllers for robotics and to...

Scientists seek to understand how 'the brain' causes human experience. Firstly, this is evidence supporting my claim that science views the [experienced] world-of-things as real-in-themselves. ... This is an error, of course, because nothing within experience is actually real. The distinction...

This is from an amusing website I stumbled across: Is your brain really necessary?

[B] This account has a 3 D cut-away scan of where the nails were lodged: [FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12437803/

Well, I heard about something interesting, but very suspicious to me. http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20060323.html It's a brain training program for a Nintendo DS game system. Supposedly, you are able to make a brain funtion like it is "younger" using mental excercizes. I am doubtful...

I understand evolution to a degree this isn't an arguement for any kind of creationism or anything like that. I just wonder is there anything over a period of time injested or exposed to that would alter genes to make a brain grow? Does constant puzzle solving change genetics and allow new...

Does anyone know where I can find information about the stages of development and reorganization of the post natal human brain ? I've done a google search and searched this forum. Specifically what I'm looking for is information about the major stages of brain formation and development through...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051111/sc_space/meditateonthisbuddhisttraditionthickenspartsofthebrain

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Source: New York Times Go to www.bugmenot.com to get a login ID and password if you don't have one already. My first question upon reading the headline of the article (thread title) is "why wouldn't it?" My reaction upon reading the bit I've bolded is "what's the mechanism for 'more or...

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166402412 Japan plans to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops by 2011. Ray Kurzweil thinks that 10 petaflops is a conservative estimate of the computational capacity of the human brain.

Several posters, mainly Ian, have made the analogy that the brain is like a TV set, receiving and interpreting signals from the mind, rather than, in fact, generating the mind. The analogy seems consistent, up to a point, but I have a few questions: 1. A TV set (or radio, or other receiving...

Katie Holmes' Missing Days This Scientology thing doesn't sound so bad if I can get them to snap me up a starlet. Of course, the immediate alarm bell that goes off is - if nobody heard from her for 16 days, why didn't someone call the cops? It's always big big news when pretty white girls...

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4071192.stm "Neuroscientists are to build the most detailed model of the human brain with the help of an IBM supercomputer. " It may be possible for someone who believes in the existence of a soul to be comfortable with this experiment. However...

We can transplant everything else, but is it possible to put one persons brain inside another persons head successfully? And if this was possible, what would happen if we were to put a mans brain inside a womans body (some people feel like that already, but forget that for a second), would it work?

I felt some pains last night as I watched tv last night, while being under the weather with some sort of virus. I am talking an excruciating intermittant pain in my finger. Sort of gout-like. This got me thinking; how on earth is it that our electrical processing center...our brain...can...

In the 13 years that Sean Narayanan lived in the US, he earned a masters degree from Oklahoma University, worked with a top consulting firm and served at senior positions in technology companies. Three years ago, he sold off his 3,800 sq ft plush house in Virginia and returned to India. "India...

The "floaters of Fairfield" are now telling us what's good for your brain. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14169415&BRD=1139&PAG=461&dept_id=142642&rfi=6 What ticks me off is that this is obviously a press release that has not been edited. No mention that this is not an accredited...

...the stuff that shows up in the email inbox... Thinning hair? Rejuvenate it with a laser-powered hair brush! Now only $299 -- Save!! Reduced from $599!! Thinning thought processes? Rejuvenate them by reprogramming your brain with your PC!! Menu-driven! Customizable!! Money Back Guarantee...

Is there any scientific articles in net about clinical tests, where brain functions was altered. I only know some elektromagnetic stuff, that could produce some emotions to some people. I just see document where Richard Dawkings tried experience some spiritual emotions, but fail. There is some...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1367966,00.html

Anyone know about Brain Respiration. I drew a blank at quackwatch.org. I saw this which made me think it's just another woo-woo treatment. They say it's a scientific version of Dahn Hak. I'm not convinced it's scientific. Any good debunking stuff on BR or is legit (I doubt it!).

I've often heard in science fiction stories, and from psychics that humans use only 10% of our brain. However, when I took Psychology in college, I seem to remember the professor (ironically an expert on memory) telling us that humans use close to 100%. That much of the brain is used to...

Researchers have discovered that a deadly toxin produced by E.coli 0157 linked with Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) is particularly lethal to certain cancerous cells and may be of value as a cytotoxic drug in the treatment of brain tumours ...

I was reading an article from New Scientist here in which they show a new type of electrode to be fitted to the skull of patients in order to measure the potentials of various neurons. Trouble is that as the neurons grow and change over time the connection is lost. Hence they have designed an...

... become brain damaged adults (who, incidentally, vote). I have a theory-in-process that by force feeding children The Big Lie -- literal beliefs in preposterous religious texts -- that a form of brain damage occurs. And that when a child's mind is warped this badly, that he/she is from then...