(Editor’s note: below you have part 4 of the 6-part The Neurobiology of Stress series. If you are joining the series now, you can read the previous part Here.) Stayin’ Alive Understanding the Human Brain and How It Responds to Stress THE STRESS RESPONSE EXPLAINED Stress was put on the map, so to speak, by a [...]
: . 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 Twitter Updates FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG : PODCASTS The I-Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : a user's guide Istanbul Cognitive Neuroscience meeting lecture , May , 2010 : Who wants to know The Nature of our Subjective I Making Minds Evolving and Constructing the I Univ . Wisc . Evolution Seminar Series , April 28, 2011 Search : MindBlog Selected Blog Categories acting choosing 299 aging 140 animal behavior 182 attention perception 348 autism 19 brainNIH-funded study finds dyslexia not tied to IQ (NIH press release): - “Regardless of high or low overall scores on an IQ test, children with dyslexia show similar patterns of brain activity, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. The results call into question the discrepancy model — the practice of classifying [...]Now, test your brain with this math brain teaser. Every day you take the escalator into the subway, turn right and catch a train going up North to the university. One day you realize that the trains on your left going in the opposite direction can bring you to the beach. Fun article by Daniel Kahneman based on his new book,Thinking, Fast and Slow. How cognitive illusions blind us to reason (The Guardian): Why do Wall Street traders have such faith in their powers of prediction, when their success is largely down to chance? Daniel Kahneman explains. - “Looking back, the most striking part of the [...]—> Join Live Q&A with Dr. Gary Small by clicking HERE, today November 1st at 11am Pacific Time/ 2pm Eastern Time. Chat about memory, memory techniques and brain-healthy lifestyles with Dr. Small, Director of UCLA’s Memory Clinic and Center on Aging and author of The Memory Bible. You can also learn more about the Brain Fitness Q&A Series.(Editor’s note: below you have part 3 of the 6-part The Neurobiology of Stress series. If you are joining the series now, you can read the previous part Here.) Stayin’ Alive Understanding the Human Brain and How It Responds to Stress The Little Brain Down Under The tour continues … Sitting under the occipital and temporal [...]Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing Receives Grant for the Model eHealth Community for Aging (press release): - ” The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing (Front Porch Center), a 501©(3) founded on the belief that technology innovation plays a vital role in enhancing wellbeing, was awarded eHealth equipment valued at [...]
Sponsored Ad (How to Advertise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the October edition of the monthly SharpBrains eNewsletter, featuring this time several articles on the impact of stress, emotions, and self-regulation, on our brain’s structure and performance. We are pleased to bring to SharpBrains readers a new 6-part series on the Neurobiology of Stress, based on a [...]
Finding the cause and the cure for a deadly disease is a little bit like investigating a murder. Clinicians collect clues from their patients, bring them back to the lab, and try to reconstruct the crime and identify the killer. For amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease), this investigation has lasted over [...]
What made the human brain? According to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, it was a giant obsidian monolith inspiring primates to use tools and weapons. Scientists have taken a more nuanced approach, looking for the biology behind the complex structures and enhanced function of the human brain. But merely comparing the genes expressed in [...]