neuroscience

Hell yeah, put an implant in my brain - what could possibly go wrong? https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/300094615/neuralink-elon-musks-new-company-wants-to-implant-computer-chips-inside-human-brains

The main problem I see with the idea of the soul (as a conscious entity that can survive the death of the physical body) is how this soul would interact with the physical body while eluding the observations of physicists and neuroscientists. If the soul interacted with the body via a very weak...

I've had two anthropology teachers in Kansas tell the class that there is no difference between male and female brains, that the genders are the same. Is this belief starting to become a thing now? The first teacher I approached about it, who was always in a hurry, kind of broke down and said...

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...

"Brain Games" and "The Story of God" tackle existential angst and the intersection of religion, culture, and neuroscience. Jason Silva on Science, Adventure and Exploration [2:43] HHadA_WKvvM It is great to see the expanding idea of G()D being examined in relation to reality and the...

As a brief mention of context; I'm reading a book on the recent field of affective neuroscience (The Archeology of Mind, Jaak Panksepp 2012). A tangent topic discussed in this book is that of radical behaviorism. The author states, in the second chapter, the influence on 20th century...

This is an interesting article dealing with the misuse of Neuroscience. Sam Harris is specifically picked out.

Following on from the article in 2008 in the UK Skeptic magazine, here is a book review of Dr Pim van Lommel's offering on NDEs and Consciosuness after life. Might be useful to link to when you get people coming here asking the same old, same old, same old, questions about NDEs. If you cannot...

My book review for the book by Pim van Lommel on Near Death Experiences.

For all mystics and theists who have interacted with "god"....have a look at this video and PONDER that you might be just having a DELUSION. It is not a coincidence that to "see gods" one has to do something that is mind altering in one way or another. Either not eating, or ingesting too much...

In other threads, it has been discussed how for example, rape porn can be a catalyst for say, sex offenders, and violent movies and video games can become a catalyst of aggression for very aggressive people. This led me to thinking: What if a neuroscientist was to develop a therapy in which a...

A neuroscientist who thought it would be a good idea to look at the brains of autistic children has discovered that some children diagnosed with autism (less than half, but a sizable percentage) and other behavior disorders are actually suffering small brain seizures...

I was wondering what the scientific consensus is regarding religious faith. Example: Is it true that speaking in tongues mirrors that of a schizophrenic on a brain scan? What about faith in general? -complexcontext

I don't mind if a mod cares to move this to the Science subforum. Just read this article: http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/personality-shows-up-in-brain-structure/ about a study that found several correlations between brain structures (measured via MRI) and personality traits...

An excellent piece on magicians tricks and the neuroscience behind them. Thought about posting this in the magic tricks forum but think it might be better suited here because it deals with the way the brain 'tricks' the mind into not seeing certain movements. From Catalyst on ABC TV, if you...

I am making this thread because for years people have been arguing about the origins of consciousness and I haven't yet seen someone go into much detail about exactly how it might occur. I mean, the computational model proponents are clear about consciousness being a form of "self referential...

I'm not totally sure this is the right section but.... I recently encountered a few lectures by Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran on various video sites including the TED talk and beyond belief, which in turn inspired me to order his book Phantoms of the Mind. Basically, I am looking for other...

Here's an interesting article by an Oxford neuroscientist, entitled "The REAL brain drain: Modern technology - including violent video games - is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist'...

Found this on boing boing. Interesting, if shown to be right - it appears to imply that dyslexia in an English speaker could indicate a genetic predisposition to learn a Chinese-type language and vice versa? If it's a hereditary condtion, could it be due to a gene that's crossed over from some...

Private Companies Announce Plans To Market fMRI & Software for use in Interrogation http://www.aclu.org/privacy/biotech/29125res20070321.html Not suprizingly fMRI technology is being marketed for both public and government use for use in interrogations, and lie-detection. INRM I'm really...

I posted this in Science and technology but I thought I'd post it here also because of what it may imply about the brain and mind. http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/January/jan3_justmitchell.shtml According to the article, researchers at Carnegie Melon have developed a program that can...

Well not quite yet. http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/January/jan3_justmitchell.shtml I find this very interesting on several levels. I can foresee a web browser that thows up search results based on what you are thinking. Thought/neural controlled interfaces for computers or devices. And...

"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...

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.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/science-nervessound-20070309.html I do not claim to know anything about neuroscience, but wouldn't the fact that at least rudimentary machine/brain interfaces have been constructed using electrodes connected to a computer indicate contrary to this...

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

University of New South Wales January 31, 2006 Research from UNSW provides the most convincing evidence to date that complex mental activity across people's lives significantly reduces the risk of dementia. The researchers found that such activity almost halves the incidence of dementia.

I found this great article I'd like to share on the subject of religion and neuroscience in the UK's The Guardian. It begins: "Religion may be a survival mechanism. So are we born to believe?" I've seen similar writings addressing this view, but none as compelling as this one...

After reading Francis Crick's The Astonishing Hypothesis. I started to become more interested in the different areas of Neuroscience. Do you guys have any suggestions for books on the subject?