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• AAN Awards Rochester Neurologist With Education Award

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  The American Academy of Neurology has awarded Ralph F. Józefowicz, MD, FAAN, of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York, the 2010 A.B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education. The award will be presented at the Academys 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto in April of ...
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• Brain scans could one day be used to tell a Dali from a Picasso

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 27 (ANI): Can brain scans help classify art? Well, researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan seem to have found the answer.Lead researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani insists brain activity patterns can be used to determine whether someone is looking at a surrealist landscape by ...
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• Noteworthy nugget: Eye to brain to computer screen

  
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  As we approach the end of 2008, yes, Japanese neuroscientists are able to recreate what we see from activity in our brain. Here is  a link to what people were looking at and what the computer recreated. If you are into neuroscience , you might also enjoy this TED lecture on learning from watching our own bran ...
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• Millennials and face-to-face communications

  
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  By Ray B. Williams Baby Boomers  like face-to-face communication whereas Millennials prefer the cell phone or social media. Or do they? The International Association of Business Communications released a report recently which stated, among other things, that while Millennials frequently use electronic ...
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• Is Anybody In There?

  
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  You may have read this week about the case of Rom Houben, the Belgian man who was involved in a car crash in 1983, then diagnosed and treated as comatose for over 20 years, and is now reported to be communicating intelligently with his family and hospital staff. Since the story was first reported in the German ...
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• Michael Gazzaniga - We Are the Law

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  The sixth and final video in the series - hope you enjoyed them. You have basically, assuming you have been watching, been exposed to most of the info in his most recent book. The sixth in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 22 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the ...
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• How are we able to talk even in a noisy room

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Ever wondered how are we able to understand each other’s talks even in a noisy room? Well, according to the researchers, it is the brain’s ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on our conversation.The team from Maastricht University in The ...
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• How does the brain perceive fragmented sound?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 26 (IANS) The brain’s ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. Now, a new Dutch study throws up interesting insights into how the brain allows us to perceive a physically interrupted sound as being continuous.“In our day-to-day lives, ...
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• Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neurosciences by Mark Blumberg

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 164
  Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neurosciences | Oxford University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0195314735 | 784 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience is a seminal reference work in the burgeoning field of developmental behavioral neuroscience, which has emerged in ...
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• Scientists Discover Why Suffocation Causes Fear

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 640
  Around 5% of people are claustrophobic, fearing tight spaces and restricted movements. One of the major sources of fear by claustrophobics is the fear of suffocating. As it turns out, suffocating is downright terrifying all by itself, and its not just the overall fear of death kicking in: according to new research ...
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• John Assaraf Teaches The Secret Behind The Secret

  
  My Prosperous World — Authority: 154
  John Assaraf Teaches The Secret behind The Secret…. John Assaraf has teamed up with Vick Strizheus of The 7 Figure Marketing School to produce this lifechanging DVD that is available for a short time FREE. Yes you read correct, Free 10,000 copies of The Neuroscience of Success are available now. This is a never ...
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• The Imprecision of Language in Science, especially Neuroscience

  
  Social Mode — Authority: 100
  A friend recently sent me this nifty article. Here are some of my favorite snippets. On “knowledge”: “Knowing is not an activity of the brain but of human beings, and knowledge is not contained in the brain but in books and computers, and is possessed by human beings, but not by their brains. It makes no ...
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• Mind of an actor

  
  The Art of Science — Authority: 126
  Just a heads up I will not be posting over Thanksgiving weekend. For now, a cool article from the BBC about the Neuroscience of an actor’s mind. Excerpt: For an actor, the performance conditions weren’t exactly ideal: flat on her back in a large machine, under strict instructions to lie as still as possible, ...
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• How our skin helps us to listen

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 632
  What part of the body do you listen with? The ear is the obvious answer, but its only part of the story - your skin is also involved. When we listen to someone else speaking, our brain combines the sounds that our ears pick up with the sight of the speakers lips and face, and subtle changes in air movements over our ...
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• Neuroscience: My latest MercatorNet story: Brain scans and neurotrash

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 590
  It’s the ultimate branding strategy. Just slap “neuro” before a word and the goofiest speculation becomes respectable science.” Here : Unfortunately, neurotrash may not always be harmless nonsense in marketing departments about what color of car people choose. Increasingly, in the form of neurolaw, it is ...
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• Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 459
  What a better opening for our January SharpBrains Summit than to have Marian C. Diamond, one of the pioneers of neuroplasticity research since the 1960s, introduce us to the human brain, its anatomy and function, and implications from neuroplasticity for brain health and performance at any age. Marian C. Diamond, ...
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• New Humanist - Raymond Tallis Rallies the Neurosceptics & Matt Grist Responds

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  A call and response set of articles from the New Humanist - this is an important discussion to be having, and we need more than these two versions of the argument. Neurotrash From ethics and art history to social policy experts are embracing neuroscience as the answer to understanding human behaviour. ...
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• Michael Gazzaniga - The Social Brain

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Part five of six in this series. The fith in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 20 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh. Tags: brain , Psychology , consciousness , Michael Gazzaniga , The Social Brain , neuroscience
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• Man in Coma 23 Years – Is He Really Conscious?

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 131
  I don’t know. The mainstream media is doing a wonderful job sensationalizing this case, presenting it without skepticism. Some outlets are doing a good job of discussing the relevant issues – but they don’t have the information to have a meaningful discussion of this particular case. Details are tantalizing but ...
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• Man in Coma 23 Years – Is He Really Conscious?

  
  NeuroLogica Blog — Authority: 597
  I don’t know. The mainstream media is doing a wonderful job sensationalizing this case, presenting it without skepticism. Some outlets are doing a good job of discussing the relevant issues – but they don’t have the information to have a meaningful discussion of this particular case. Details are tantalizing but ...
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