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• Thinking With Our Meat - Part II

  
  Knowledge Is Necessity — Authority: 470
  Nature/nurture, mind/brain, genes/environment - today’s brain science is providing new insights into how we think and behave. To continue from Part I ...At the 2003 APA in San Francisco, I heard Daniel Weinberger of the NIMH tell his audience about a study that came out of his lab, published in Science the year ...
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• Intimacy, Affairs, and the Brain

  
  BRAIN HEALTH BLOG — Authority: 106
  I read with some interest a recent article in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, November 3, 2009 about caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) who find new companions for love. The article questioned whether such behavior could be considered adultery? We have nearly 5 million Americans with AD and at ...
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• Thinking With Our Meat

  
  Knowledge Is Necessity — Authority: 470
  In my previous three blog pieces, I discussed how working on our own various personality issues and behavioral quirks loom large in our recovery. The last piece ended with the proposition that the mind and the brain may be an artificial distinction. To back up my point, I need to backfill the narrative with some brain ...
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• Boost Your Memory

  
  Newsvine - Calvin Tang's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 119
  Lots of us have trouble remembering the name of the person we just met.
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• Clone of Brain Behavior Institute - Session 19

  
  Serendip's Exchange — Authority: 136
    BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2009 INQUIRY INSTITUTE 2009 Continuing Conversation read more
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• One Meal A Day with Others for Brain Health

  
  BRAIN HEALTH BLOG — Authority: 106
  I often am asked what one thing is most important for brain health promotion. I cannot answer this question because I do not believe there is such a thing. The human brain requires a comprehensive and integrated approach to health which is why I have developed my five part brain health lifestyle (see ...
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• Brainy Cities

  
  BRAIN HEALTH BLOG — Authority: 106
  A recent article in US News discussed the brain health of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States. An index that was comprised of diet (36%), physical health (25%), mental health (24%), and social well being (15%) was used to compare the states. Data was gathered from the Centers for Disease ...
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• Prosthetic, robotic ‘Smart Hand’ has feelings, too

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Brain Neurons Create Timestamps To Keep Time and Control Actions

  
  Discoveries In Science — Authority: 114
  A team of researchers, including Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University and neuroscientists from MIT and Japan’s RIKEN Brain Science Institute have discovered that specific neurons in primate brains keep track of time. This knowledge could help in creating cures for diseases such as ...
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• Your Brain is Changing

  
  Radioactive Communist Zombies — Authority: 128
  If youre reading this blog (and Im pretty sure you are) you are getting smarter.  Not only due to the brilliant content of this blog, but according to UCLA researchers, using the internet "enhances brain function."  Fox New reports : Research has shown that mental stimulation similar to the stimulation ...
  3 weeks ago

• Web Boosts Grandpas Brain

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ] Searching the Internet can be a totally exhausting experience, as you bounce from one site to another to another, sometimes until you can’t remember what you were looking for in the first place. But according to scientists at UCLA, all that virtual running ...
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• Arrested Development: A Freudian Analysis

  
  Shakespeare Teacher — Authority: 110
  With rumors of an Arrested Development movie in the works , contrary to earlier rumors that it is not, it seems like a good time to look back the amazing TV series America discovered just a bit too late. As critics and fans appropriately sing the praises of the brilliant creative team being reassembled, I thought ...
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• "Physician, Heal Thyself"

  
  Prana Journal — Authority: 122
  New York Times Doctor and Patient - How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors is not just an example of the use of meditation and mindfulness as something abstract or removed from the daily grind. Mindfulness is applied to a concrete challenge. Last month, The Journal of the American Medical Association ...
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• Odd Facts About The Brain

  
  PurpleSlinky — Authority: 421
  The brain is the hub of our central nervous system, controlling everything from automatic functions of the body like heartbeats and sneezes to more conscious movements, such as changing the channel on a television set. We owe it much thanks, and maybe occasional swear words when it refuses to function properly. Just ...
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• Juggling Increases White Matter in The Brain Says New Study

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 555
  It has been shown that juggling increases white matter in an area of the brain which to respond to learning the skill. Other mental tasks have been shown in the past to increase functioning of the brain as a whole but this white matter mass increase is being touted as the first evidence that it too can be physically ...
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• How the Brain Got Liberated

  
  Deepak Chopra - Official Website — Authority: 142
  They mystery of the human brain recently took a step closer to being solved. This didn’t happen through a single breakthrough or because of an Einstein moment. Instead, an old belief was overturned by many separate researches. The old belief held that the brain couldn’t heal itself. Unlike almost every other ...
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• Introducing Astropolis: The Video Game Suite Designed to Help Study Autism

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 414
  Matthew Belmonte over at Cornell is leading a team that has designed a suite of video games specifically to study autism. The game suite, called Astropolis, has all the adventure and science fiction elements so popular with young boys. It was developed and research is ongoing thanks to funding in part by the National ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: The Young and the Neuro

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
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• Brain Science Podcast #62: Warren Brown on “Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?”

  
  Dr. Ginger Campbell's Blog and Podcasts — Authority: 98
  Episode 62 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Warren Brown, PhD, co-author (with Nancey Murphy) of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will . This book was discussed in detail back in Episode 53, but this interview gave ...
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