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Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia - health - 29 November 2011 - New Scientist

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:18 +0000

The development of general anaesthesia has transformed surgery from a horrific ordeal into a gentle slumber. It is one of the commonest medical procedures in the world, yet we still don't know how the drugs work. Perhaps this isn't surprising: we still don't understand consciousness, so how can we comprehend its disappearance?

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Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline « KurzweilAI

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:46:15 +0000

"Intense auditory brain training targeted at the regions of a rat’s brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from researchers at University of California, San Francisco."

Tags: #aging #brain #health

Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:06:34 +0000

"By disrupting brain activity in a particular region, neuroscientists can sway people’s views of moral situations."

Tags: #brain #cogsci #mind #mit #neuroscience #research

Is the Internet Warping Our Brains? | LiveScience

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:27 +0000

Did sharp rocks warp our brains? Did cooking warp our brains? Did speech warp our brains? Did writing warp our brains? The net is the sharpest, hottest, chattiest, wordiest thing to hit since all the above.

Tags: #brain #cogsci #internet #psychology #socialnetworking

Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief: Scientific American

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:33:45 +0000

"Dropping the F-bomb or other expletives may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it"

Tags: #brain #health #language #pain #psychology #research #science #swearing

Mind Hacks: Exploring the extended mind

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Tags: #brain #cogsci #mind #philosophy

Sheddings - They're Palin and McCain...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:28:09 +0000

Tags: #and #brain #mccain #palin #pinky #politics #the

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Banjo used in brain surgery

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:14:55 +0000

Tags: #banjo #brain #medicine #neuroscience #surgery

MONTY PYTHON'S MODRZEW - Another Monty Python Record: Gumby Theatre, etc.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:26:52 +0000

"Open the door THEN come in! ... I got my head stuck in the cupboard! ... Ohhhh... my brain hurts! "

Tags: #brain #funny #gumby #hurts #monty #mr #my #python #shut #up

The Extended Mind

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:21:23 +0000

"Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words "just ain't in the head", and hold that this externalism about meaning carries over into an externalism about mind. We propose to pursue a third position. We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes. "

Tags: #brain #cogsci #consciousness #extended #mind #psychology

Found Footage: A Joystick Remote Control For Your Kid's Brain

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:19 +0000

"It's probably not a great idea to smoke while you do brain surgery and insert mind-control electrodes into little kids' heads."

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Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:21:55 +0000

"An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation."

Tags: #alzheimer&039;s #brain #health #medicine

Your Outboard Brain Knows All

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:18:35 +0000

"Sure, I'm a veritable genius when I'm on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I'm not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world?"

Tags: #brain #mind #net #web20

Neurophilosophy : The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:38:29 +0000

"After reading this post all I can say is: I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."

Tags: #brain #lobotomies #psychiatry #scary #ugh

Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:16:32 +0000

"Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence."

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