Tag: mind
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Brain for… walking!
Our brain could have evolved just for… walking. [1] A new theory proposes that our beloved organ, what we believe makes us unique, was created just for controlling movement. If this is true, then two possibilities exist: The other “high level” activities that constitute consciousness could just be a side-effect or… a result of something…
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My stroke of Insight: Connecting to the One!
An awesome talk by a neurologist who had a stroke. Look at it here. Random thoughts… Left brain: The “I”. Serial processor Leans – Thinks linearly and methodically. It is about the past and the future. Take the collage of the present moment and think about details, categorize, associate the past, project into the future.…
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Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity”. The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that…
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Epilepsy, brain, research.
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, raising hope that a similar treatment might work in severe forms of human epilepsy. UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of…
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Blood barrier, brain barrier, mind barrier…
Scientists are trying to bypass the blood-brain barrier so as to deliver drugs directly into the brain. [1] The brain is totally cut-off from the rest of the body. My hand does not “know” there is a brain. Nor does my blood. Could it be that my brain does not “know” there is a mind…
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