Updated: 2010-04-30 01:26:05
An independent expert panel organized by the NIH released yesterday a thoughtful report on the state of the science for prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and cognitive decline. The report, available here, summarizes the panel’s review by saying:
“Firm conclusions cannot be drawn about the association of modifiable risk factors with cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease.”
“There is insufficient [...]
Updated: 2010-04-30 01:25:47
Nakano Y, Fujita M, Ogino K, Saint-Amant L, Kinoshita T, Oda Y, Hirata H. Biogenesis of GPI-anchored proteins is essential for surface expression of sodium channels in zebrafish Rohon-Beard neurons to respond to mechanosensory stimulation. Development. 2010 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Updated: 2010-04-30 01:25:46
It is no surprise, with the recent landmark health care debate unfolding on Capitol Hill, that many pharmaceutical executives are looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs in their own industry. And one of these methods of innovation that many companies have been considering related to the use of mutually beneficial partnerships that could theoretically replace the current model of selling drugs on price. Some industry commontators believe that this could institute a new...
Updated: 2010-04-29 23:00:04
Follow us on About Contact Popular today Reader blogs Science shop Register Login RSS Home content Sign language study shows multiple brain regions wired for language A new study from the University of Rochester finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species . Instead , humans rely on several regions of the brain , each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks , in order to make sense of a sentence . Depending on the type of grammar used in forming a given sentence , the brain will activate a certain set of regions to process it , like a carpenter digging through a toolbox to pick a group of tools to accomplish the various basic components that comprise a complex task . We're
Updated: 2010-04-29 17:24:31
Hi all...........Regular T cells are a specialized subpopulation of T cells that act to suppress activation of the immune system and thereby maintain immune system homeostasis and tolerance to self. ButAn important question in the field of immunology is how the immunosuppressive activity of regulatory T cells is modulated during the course of an ongoing immune response.
Updated: 2010-04-29 01:22:04
Gauthier J, Champagne N, Lafrenière RG, Xiong L, Spiegelman D, Brustein E, Lapointe M, Peng H, Côté M, Noreau A, Hamdan FF, Addington AM, Rapoport JL, Delisi LE, Krebs MO, Joober R, Fathalli F, Mouaffak F, Haghighi AP, Néri C, Dubé MP, Samuels ME, Marineau C, Stone EA, Awadalla P, Barker PA, Carbonetto S, Drapeau P, Rouleau GA; the S2D Team. De novo mutations in the gene encoding the synaptic scaffolding protein SHANK3 in patients ascertained for schizophr...
Updated: 2010-04-27 00:28:55
In light of the current BBC-led controversy on whether “brain training” works, we believe it is critical to spend some time discussing the basics of brain functioning and brain-healthy lifestyles, what “brain training” is and isn’t (to be accurate, the BBC didn’t test Brain Training as a category, only the new games that their researchers [...]
Updated: 2010-04-26 20:14:00
: Home Home Page 2010 Awards judges , dates , faqs How-To Guide all about Brain Fitness Debunking 10 Brain Myths 1. Brain Fitness Fundamentals 2. The 4 Pillars of Brain Maintenance 3. Brain Training vs . Mental Activity 4. Making Informed Decisions 5. Brain Fitness Through Life 6. Ready for the Future 7. Opening the Debate Glossary : Brain Cognitive Terms Neuroscience Interview Series Top 10 Brain Fitness Books Directory : Web Sites and Articles Teasers Brain Games Top 50 Brain Teasers Top 15 Puzzles Teasers Riddles Latest Games for the Brain Book Consumer Guide Description Table of Contents Praise for the Book Debunking 10 Brain Myths List of Research References 2009 Report Market Intelligence Market Report Infographic : State of the Market Premium Research Circle List of Clients
Updated: 2010-04-26 11:15:00
Ji et al. use an animal model of arthritis pain to show that pain-related cognitive deficits result from amygdala-driven impairment of medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) function.
Updated: 2010-04-21 10:38:08
You may already have read the hundreds of media articles today titled “brain training doesn’t work” and similar, based on the BBC “Brain Test Britain” experiment.
Once more, claims seem to go beyond the science backing them up … except that in this case it is the researchers, not the developers, who are responsible.
Let’s recap what [...]
Updated: 2010-04-21 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 220 aging 109 animal behavior 157 attention perception 282 autism 19 brain plasticity 167 consciousness 152 culture 15 culture politics 395 deric 154 embodied cognition 26 emotion 217 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 89 faces 76 fear anxiety stress 177
Updated: 2010-04-20 22:28:06
(Editor’s Note: this is one of the Research Executive Briefs that will be included in SharpBrains’ 2010 market report, to be unveiled on May 24th. We asked leading neuroscientists to share findings and implications from their own recent published scientific studies in order to better forecast the development trajectory of emerging applications for cognitive health [...]
Updated: 2010-04-20 20:58:02
Home Home Page 2010 Awards judges , dates , faqs How-To Guide all about Brain Fitness Debunking 10 Brain Myths 1. Brain Fitness Fundamentals 2. The 4 Pillars of Brain Maintenance 3. Brain Training vs . Mental Activity 4. Making Informed Decisions 5. Brain Fitness Through Life 6. Ready for the Future 7. Opening the Debate Glossary : Brain Cognitive Terms Neuroscience Interview Series Top 10 Brain Fitness Books Directory : Web Sites and Articles Teasers Brain Games Top 50 Brain Teasers Top 15 Puzzles Teasers Riddles Latest Games for the Brain Book Consumer Guide Description Table of Contents Praise for the Book Debunking 10 Brain Myths List of Research References 2009 Report Market Intelligence Market Report Infographic : State of the Market Premium Research Circle List of Clients
Updated: 2010-04-20 16:01:32
The Situationist Home About The Situationist About Situationism About The Project Contact Us Praise for The Situationist The Project The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School PLMSTube Visit the Project's Youtube . Channel Creators Jon Hanson Michael McCann Contributors Mahzarin Banaji John Bargh Adam Benforado Geoffrey Cohen John Darley Peter Ditto Susan Fiske Gráinne Fitzsimons Jon Hanson John Jost Dan Kahan Jerry Kang Aaron Kay Sung Hui Kim Eric D . Knowles Linda Hamilton Krieger Michael McCann Thomas Nadelhoffer Brian Nosek Emily Pronin Paul Slovic Tom Tyler Timothy Wilson David Yosifon Philip Zimbardo Fellows Jason Chung Chloe Cockburn Julian Darwall Elizabeth Johnston Goutam Jois Will Li Pam Mueller Emma Polgar Gustavo Ribeiro Al Sahlstrom Previous Fellows Artists
Updated: 2010-04-20 06:09:04
Tomorrow we’ll probably witness a lot of media coverage about a experiment run by the BBC in the UK, to be published in Nature, on whether “brain training” works.
The paper is still embargoed, so we cannot comment on it, but what I can do is to share fragments of my email to a BBC reporter six [...]
Updated: 2010-04-20 04:10:50
: , , Home Home Page 2010 Awards judges , dates , faqs How-To Guide all about Brain Fitness Debunking 10 Brain Myths 1. Brain Fitness Fundamentals 2. The 4 Pillars of Brain Maintenance 3. Brain Training vs . Mental Activity 4. Making Informed Decisions 5. Brain Fitness Through Life 6. Ready for the Future 7. Opening the Debate Glossary : Brain Cognitive Terms Neuroscience Interview Series Top 10 Brain Fitness Books Directory : Web Sites and Articles Teasers Brain Games Top 50 Brain Teasers Top 15 Puzzles Teasers Riddles Latest Games for the Brain Book Consumer Guide Description Table of Contents Praise for the Book Debunking 10 Brain Myths List of Research References 2009 Report Market Intelligence Market Report Infographic : State of the Market Premium Research Circle List of Clients
Updated: 2010-04-17 04:53:52
We have received 40 excellent entries to the inaugural Brain Fitness Innovation Awards describing pioneering initiatives to apply neuroplasticity-based findings and tools to a variety of purposes/ age groups through the lifespan: academic performance, sports performance, professional performance, healthy aging, clinical and mental health purposes. Most came from organizations based in North America, but we [...]
Updated: 2010-04-16 00:28:48
Visa “Trip for Life” TV Spot from VisaGoWorld on Vimeo.
Last week, neuromarketing firm Neurofocus released summary results of a study that compared the performance of the same ad when run on television and on two Internet websites, Facebook and a website controlled by the advertiser. The commercial tested was “Trip For Life,” part of [...]
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Updated: 2010-04-14 04:01:38
The Situationist Home About The Situationist About Situationism About The Project Contact Us Praise for The Situationist The Project The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School PLMSTube Visit the Project's Youtube . Channel Creators Jon Hanson Michael McCann Contributors Mahzarin Banaji John Bargh Adam Benforado Geoffrey Cohen John Darley Peter Ditto Susan Fiske Gráinne Fitzsimons Jon Hanson John Jost Dan Kahan Jerry Kang Aaron Kay Sung Hui Kim Eric D . Knowles Linda Hamilton Krieger Michael McCann Thomas Nadelhoffer Brian Nosek Emily Pronin Paul Slovic Tom Tyler Timothy Wilson David Yosifon Philip Zimbardo Fellows Jason Chung Chloe Cockburn Julian Darwall Elizabeth Johnston Goutam Jois Will Li Pam Mueller Emma Polgar Gustavo Ribeiro Al Sahlstrom Previous Fellows Artists
Updated: 2010-04-13 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 220 aging 109 animal behavior 157 attention perception 282 autism 19 brain plasticity 167 consciousness 152 culture 15 culture politics 395 deric 154 embodied cognition 26 emotion 217 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 89 faces 76 fear anxiety stress 177
Updated: 2010-04-13 00:43:53
Neuromarketing readers know I sometimes venture into the non-marketing area of brain fitness, and I couldn’t resist passing along this bit of research on cell phone use. For years, we’ve been hearing alarming claims that cell phone use causes brain cancer, though no reputable study has established such a link. Now, a study [...]
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Updated: 2010-04-12 19:19:00
Please remember we are accepting entries until end of this Thursday, April 15th. Winners will be announced on May 24th, 2010.
How to Apply: Organizations can use this Entry Form to submit entries (opens a Word document).
Description: the new annual Brain Fitness Innovation Awards, designed to foster innovation and best practice sharing by celebrating outstanding pioneers who [...]
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:16:22
Marian Diamond, UC-Berkeley: “People frequently do the same level of crossword puzzles to stimulate their brains year after year. They do not challenge their brains with more difficult levels of puzzles. In our research, we showed that if we challenged the rats to reach their food cups by having to climb over many [...]
Updated: 2010-04-09 20:19:00
From the BPS Research Digest blog:BPS Research Digest: Is this the first ever direct evidence for human mirror neurons?The blog entry includes a link to the paper's abstract. (Source: BrainBlog)
Updated: 2010-04-08 16:45:14
Home Home Page 2010 Awards judges , dates , faqs How-To Guide all about Brain Fitness Debunking 10 Brain Myths 1. Brain Fitness Fundamentals 2. The 4 Pillars of Brain Maintenance 3. Brain Training vs . Mental Activity 4. Making Informed Decisions 5. Brain Fitness Through Life 6. Ready for the Future 7. Opening the Debate Glossary : Brain Cognitive Terms Neuroscience Interview Series Top 10 Brain Fitness Books Directory : Web Sites and Articles Teasers Brain Games Top 50 Brain Teasers Top 15 Puzzles Teasers Riddles Latest Games for the Brain Book Consumer Guide Description Table of Contents Praise for the Book Debunking 10 Brain Myths List of Research References 2009 Report Market Intelligence Market Report Infographic : State of the Market Premium Research Circle List of Clients
Updated: 2010-04-07 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 220 aging 109 animal behavior 157 attention perception 282 autism 19 brain plasticity 167 consciousness 152 culture 15 culture politics 395 deric 154 embodied cognition 26 emotion 217 evolution debate 92 evolutionary psychology 89 faces 76 fear anxiety stress 177
Updated: 2010-04-06 20:25:00
The annual conference of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) takes place from the 10th to the17th of April 2010, in Toronto.Conference homepage (Source: BrainBlog)
