• PABI Plan: Reinventing Brain Care Through Policy, Standards, Tech, Neuroinformatics

    Updated: 2010-03-18 13:22:13
    Today, in honor of both Brain Awareness Week (March 15-21) and Brain Injury Awareness Month (March), it is my pleasure to interview Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Project, a foundation launched in 2007 with the explicit aim to create a model system for children suffering from all Pediatric Acquired Brain Injuries, and an implicit potential, in my view, to fundamentally transform medical research through the use of neuroinformatics and standarized systems of care. The Foundation: Story and Objectives Alvaro Fernandez: Patrick, thank you very much for your time today. Can you please provide an overall perspective into what you are doing and why? Patrick: Of course. The Sarah Jane Brain Project, named after my daughter Sarah Jane, started when she was shaken by her baby nurs...

  • New nerve cell growth in stress-induced social avoidance.

    Updated: 2010-03-15 09:00:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Deric Bownds' MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , and behavior as well as random curious stuff Deric s Website HOME DERIC'S MIND BLOG BIOLOGY OF THE MIND BOOK AND COURSE LECTURES AND WRITING DERIC PERSONAL , Piano Performance , Professional , Personal History EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG : PODCASTS The I-Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : a user's guide Twitter Updates Follow me on Twitter Scientific American Partner Search : MindBlog Selected Blog Categories acting choosing 213 aging 106 animal behavior 154 attention perception 279 autism 19 brain plasticity 163 consciousness 150 culture 15 culture politics 390 deric 146 embodied cognition 26 emotion 211 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 88 faces 71 fear anxiety stress 173 futures 53 genes 77 happiness 114 human development 117 human evolution 137 language 89 meditation 38 memory learning 138 mirror neurons 42 morality 43 motivation reward 90 music 126 psychology 135 religion 76 self 73 self help 53 sex 86 sleep 33 social cognition 227 technology 168 unconscious 37 Monday , March 15, 2010 New nerve cell growth in stress-induced social . avoidance Lagace et . al look

  • The Neuroscience of Anorexia Nervosa

    Updated: 2010-03-15 06:33:05
    One of the most striking features of those suffering from anorexia nervosa is their perception of their bodies. You can put them in front of a mirror and they will still tell you they’re to fat when in fact they’re skinny. A recent publication in Nature Proceedings has an explanation. This explanation is based on the fact that our spatial experience is based on the integration of two different kinds of input, two different sensory inputs within two reference frames. These two reference frames are the egocentric frame and the allocentric frame. With the allocentric frame you can “see yourself engaged in the event as an observer would”, it’s the observer mode, you can see your self in the situation. This allocentric representation involves long term spatial memo...

  • Alzheimer's Disease: A-beta and Immune System

    Updated: 2010-03-08 22:02:00
    Old Enemy Might Help to Prevent Alzheimer’sBy GINA KOLATAThe New York TimesPublished: March 8, 2010"Harvard researchers are taking a new look at beta amyloid, which was thought to be a chief villain in Alzheimer’s whose function was that of a waste product in the brain."Read the full article (Source: BrainBlog)

  • Looking at motor imagery underlying complex skill learning.

    Updated: 2010-03-08 10:25:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Deric Bownds' MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , and behavior as well as random curious stuff Deric s Website HOME DERIC'S MIND BLOG BIOLOGY OF THE MIND BOOK AND COURSE LECTURES AND WRITING DERIC PERSONAL , Piano Performance , Professional , Personal History EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG : PODCASTS The I-Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : a user's guide Twitter Updates Follow me on Twitter Scientific American Partner Search : MindBlog Selected Blog Categories acting choosing 213 aging 106 animal behavior 154 attention perception 279 autism 19 brain plasticity 163 consciousness 150 culture 15 culture politics 390 deric 146 embodied cognition 26 emotion 211 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 88 faces 71 fear anxiety stress 173 futures 53 genes 77 happiness 114 human development 117 human evolution 137 language 89 meditation 38 memory learning 138 mirror neurons 42 morality 43 motivation reward 90 music 126 psychology 135 religion 76 self 73 self help 53 sex 86 sleep 33 social cognition 227 technology 168 unconscious 37 Monday , March 08, 2010 Looking at motor imagery underlying complex skill . learning During a recent

  • The Neurobiology of a Wedding

    Updated: 2010-03-07 07:20:31
    During a wedding the oxytocine of those involved in the wedding party rises, the testosterone level of only the groom rises, naughty, naughty. Watch this video and find out why people like to have a wedding. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD)

  • Measuring consciousness -how an anesthetic puts us to sleep.

    Updated: 2010-03-05 10:30:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Deric Bownds' MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , and behavior as well as random curious stuff Deric s Website HOME DERIC'S MIND BLOG BIOLOGY OF THE MIND BOOK AND COURSE LECTURES AND WRITING DERIC PERSONAL , Piano Performance , Professional , Personal History EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG : PODCASTS The I-Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : a user's guide Twitter Updates Follow me on Twitter Scientific American Partner Search : MindBlog Selected Blog Categories acting choosing 213 aging 106 animal behavior 154 attention perception 279 autism 19 brain plasticity 163 consciousness 150 culture 15 culture politics 390 deric 146 embodied cognition 26 emotion 211 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 88 faces 71 fear anxiety stress 173 futures 53 genes 77 happiness 114 human development 117 human evolution 137 language 89 meditation 38 memory learning 138 mirror neurons 42 morality 43 motivation reward 90 music 126 psychology 135 religion 76 self 73 self help 53 sex 86 sleep 33 social cognition 227 technology 168 unconscious 37 Friday , March 05, 2010 Measuring consciousness how an anesthetic puts us to . sleep Ferrarelli et .

  • Event: Take Your Brain to Lunch (Philadelphia)

    Updated: 2010-03-03 08:08:00
    A program from the University of Pennsylvania:Take Your Brain to Lunch"Everything from education to warfare comes down to the workings of the human mind, and now the mind itself is being understood in terms of the brain. Come hear about the different ways that Penn Arts and Sciences faculty are studying this amazing three-pound organ and the insights it is offering on diverse human problems."Martha Farah, Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology and Director of Penn's new Center for Neuroscience & Society, will lead conversations with Penn faculty members about the brain. So take your brain to lunch and enjoy some food for thought!All lectures are from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Light refreshments will be provided."For dates and topics, please see the UPenn webpag...

  • New Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging

    Updated: 2010-03-03 02:08:50
    via Press release: The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging, a public-private effort to promote the study of brain function with age, will award up to $28 million over five years to 17 research grants to examine the neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging and explore interventions that may prevent, reduce or reverse cognitive decline in older people. The partnership, led by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF), is seeking ways to maintain cognitive health — the ability to think, learn and remember — into old age. Hodes pointed out that emerging evidence suggests that certain interventions — such as exercise, environmental enrichment, diet, social engagement,...

  • 10 Mitos sobre el Cerebro y la Gimnasia Mental

    Updated: 2010-02-27 15:21:32
    (Editor’s Note: by popular demand, following goes the Spanish translation of an excerpt from The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, available in English by clicking on Debunking 10 Brain and Brain Fitness Myths) 10 MITOS SOBRE EL CEREBRO Y EL ENTRENAMIENTO MENTAL: VERDADERO O FALSO? Extraído del libro electrónico “La guía de SharpBrains para un cerebro en forma” (The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness). Con permiso de sus autores Alvaro Fernández y Dr.Elkhonon Goldberg. Mito 1. Mis genes determinan el destino de mi cerebro Realidad. La neuroplasticidad hace que nuestro estilo de vida, acciones y experiencias tengan un rol importante en la evolución física de nuestro cerebro a lo largo de toda la vida, especialmente dado el incremento de la esperanza de vida. Mito ...

  • Brain Blogging, Forty-Ninth Edition

    Updated: 2010-02-27 14:58:16
    The forty-ninth edition of Brain Blogging is up. In this round, we try to undercover the neuroanatomy of depression, breakdown emotion into a binary process, take a history lesson on learning theories, and discuss other topics. Related posts:Brain Blogging, Forty-Seventh Edition Welcome to the forty-seventh edition of Brain Blogging. In... Brain Blogging, The Fourty-Fifth Edition The new Grand Round of Brain Blogging is up... Brain Blogging 44th edition Welcome to the forty-fourth edition of Brain Blogging. In... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD)

  • How the Hidden Brain Controls Our Lives - new PRI The World Science Forum

    Updated: 2010-02-26 20:04:07
    Listen to the podcast, post comments, ask questions - the new forum is now live and will go on for the next week: How the Hidden Brain Controls Our Lives We like to think of ourselves as conscious, rational beings. But human behavior is largely driven by unconscious attitudes. These attitudes reside in the deep recesses of the brain, and we ignore them at our own peril. So says Washington Post journalist Shankar Vedantam. Vedantam is the author of a new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives. Vedantam explores how the workings of the unconscious mind explain everything from genocide and injustice to the rise of suicide bombers. The World's science reporter Rhitu Chatterjee spoke with Vedantam about the role...

  • How and When The Brain Learns to See

    Updated: 2010-02-26 07:30:38
    Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain’s visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism. In India many young people are blind. This is a disaster because the brain will not learn to see when older, young age is critical for the brain to be able to see. Impressive lecture about blindness and neuroscience. If the brain is older than 4 to 5 years of age it looses it’s ability to learn to see. A Project Prakash was started to help blind or almost blind children and help if possible. The goal of Project Prakash is to bring light into the lives of curably blind c...

  • A Decade after The Decade of the Brain – Educational and Clinical Implications of Neuroplasticity

    Updated: 2010-02-23 15:54:38
    (Editor’s Note: In 1990, Congress designated the 1990s the “Decade of the Brain.” President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, “A new era of discovery is dawning in brain research.” During the ensuing decade, scientists greatly advanced our understanding of the brain. The editors of Cerebrum asked the directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the “Decade of the Brain.” They also asked them what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s. Experts focused on research that might change how doctors diagnose and treat human brain disorders.) Neuroscience is at a historic turning point. To...

  • Brain Fitness Update: Man is a Tool-Making Animal

    Updated: 2010-02-22 19:24:23
    Here you have the February edition of our monthlyeNewsletter covering cognitive health and brain fitness topics. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, using the box in the right column. The recent SharpBrains Summit witnessed the convergence of Benjamin Franklin’s words (”Man is a Tool-Making Animal”)  with neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s  (”Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.”) The neuroplasticity revolution that may well transform education, training, healthcare, aging, is under way. New Tools Will the Apple iPad Be Good for your Brain: Prof. Luc Beaudoin lays out key criteria to assess Apple iPad’s potential value for our cognitive fitness, and judges the iPad aga...

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