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| TED: The Brain Scientist Who Had A Stroke
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| posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008
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I just finished posting a VERY interesting video on two of NHNE's
websites. The TED folks, who just released it, had this to say about it: "Take
18 minutes to watch this astonishing talk from Harvard-trained brain
scientist Jill Bolte Taylor. It drew a huge standing ovation in the
first session of the conference and, by general consensus, counts as
one of the most memorable TED talks of all time."
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| First Peek Into Deepest Recesses Of Human Brain
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| posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has devised a new
experimental technique that produces some of the best functional images
ever taken of the human brainstem, the most primitive area of the brain.
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| Scientist Turns Microscope On Herself
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| posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008
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One of the most fascinating talks at the TED conference
<http://www.ted.com/> so far was given by Jill Bolte Taylor
<http://drjilltaylor.com/>, a neuroanatomist, who gave a riveting
account of a stroke she experienced in 1996. (TED stands for
Technology, Entertainment and Design.)
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| Rethinking Happiness
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| posted on Monday, February 18, 2008
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Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book
"The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into
Depressive Disorder," which argues that feeling down after your heart
is broken -- even so down that you meet the criteria for clinical
depression -- is normal and even salutary. But students tell him that
their parents are pressuring them to seek counseling and other medical
intervention -- "some Zoloft, dear?" -- for their sadness, and the kids
want no part of it. "Can you talk to them for me?" they ask Wakefield.
Rather than "listening to Prozac," they want to listen to their hearts,
not have them chemically silenced.
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| Science Of The Orgasm
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| posted on Monday, February 11, 2008
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To uncover the orgasm's secrets, researchers are looking beyond the
clitoris, vagina, penis and prostate, to the place behind the scenes
where the true magic happens. They're examining the central nervous
system: the network of electrical impulses that zip to and fro through
the brain and spinal cord.
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| BBC Documentary: 'God On The Brain'
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| posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious
visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she
thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy. Like
other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also
associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like
Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain
science: neurotheology.
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| How Scientists Talk About UFO Sightings
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| posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008
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This is an embarrassingly shadow, uninformed, and dismissive
perspective on the exceptionally complicated subject of UFOs (and
related topics), but I wanted to be sure all of you saw it. What I
found most interesting about this article was the part that discussed
Michael Persinger using his famous "God Helmet"
to try and induce a mystical experience in famed evolutionary biologist
(and rabid atheist) Richard Dawkins. More about that in a followup
article.
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| The Unnerving World Of Psychopaths
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| posted on Friday, January 25, 2008
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In the public imagination, a "psychopath" is a violent serial killer or
an over-the-top movie villain, as one sometimes might suspect Frank to
be. He is highly impulsive and has a callous disregard for the
well-being of others that can be disquieting. But he is just as likely
to be a next-door neighbor, a doctor, or an actor on TV -- essentially
no different from anyone else who holds these roles, except that Frank
lacks the nagging little voice which so profoundly influences most of
our lives. Frank has no conscience. And as much as we would like to
think that people like him are a rare aberration, safely locked away,
the truth is that they are more common than most would ever guess.
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| Humans Crave Violence Just Like Sex
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| posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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New research on mice shows the brain processes aggressive behavior as
it does other rewards. Mice sought violence, in fact, picking fights
for no apparent reason other than the rewarding feeling.
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| Political Animals (Literally)
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| posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Just as there are myriad strategies open to the human political animal
with White House ambitions, so there are a number of nonhuman animals
that behave like textbook politicians. Researchers who study highly
gregarious and relatively brainy species like rhesus monkeys, baboons,
dolphins, sperm whales, elephants and wolves have lately uncovered
evidence that the creatures engage in extraordinarily sophisticated
forms of politicking, often across large and far-flung social networks.
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