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• What is the physical reason for trembling and cold flashes with fear?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  Why is it that when we feel afraid we tremble, or experience erratic flashes in temperature? What part of the body is responsible for this and what is the purpose of these sensations? I’m just curious, neuroscience fascinates me.
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• Johns Hopkins scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammals brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the...
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• Music to the (ringing) ears: New therapy targets tinnitus

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Loud, persistent ringing in the ears , known as tinnitus, can be vexing for its millions of sufferers. This perceived noise can be symptomatic of many different ills--from earwax to aging--but the most common cause is from noise-induced hearing loss, such as extended exposure to construction or loud music, and ...
  21 hours ago

• Researchers store working memory in brain slices

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 738
  When it comes to things like image recognition, the human brain can completely outclass the most powerful computers on the market. Its able to dredge up images that are decades old—no bit-rot or obsolete formats in the wetware—in order to identify similarities or perform category recognition tasks. And, even ...
  21 hours ago

• The Diametric Revolution in Psychotherapy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Revolution/revolutionary are often very over-used words, and boil down to little more than hype for things which seldom deserve such sensational slogans. But a true revolution in psychotherapy is in the making in relation to the so-called “diametric model” of mental illness. Diametric derives from diameter , ...
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• Seeing without looking

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  LA JOLLA, CA -- Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention brings to mind specific details of our environment while shutting others out. ...
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• 1 step closer to closure

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec.
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• How are memories saved?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  How are memories saved? Where does the recording take place and how? --Michael Saayman, Cape Town, South Africa [More]
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• Neuroscientists store memories in slices of brain tissue

  
  Alex Torex Blog — Authority: 145
  Neuroscientists store memories in slices of brain tissue “It took us four years to be able to reproducibly store two bits of information for 10 seconds” says Larimer. “Our findings should progress faster now that we know what to look for and have found the brain circuit that actually holds the memory.” ...
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• Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University store information in isolated brain tissue

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  CLEVELAND -- December 27, 2009 ?Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience and physiology/biophysics, and Phillip Larimer, PhD, a MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate...
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• My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 122509

  
  I'm Not Actually a Geek — Authority: 520
  From the home office in the North Pole, where I’m packing up a for a couple months relaxing in Hawaii… #1 : RT @ nenshad No spoilers but I agree! rt @ twailgum “The Business Application of the Decade: And the Winner Is…” http://bit.ly/53BdZ2 my blog on CIO.com #2 : The Benefits of Pissing People Off ...
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• "The point is that there’s often an indefatigable gap between the rigors of cost-benefit..."

  
  Young and Brilliant — Authority: 544
  “The point is that there’s often an indefatigable gap between the rigors of cost-benefit analyses and the emotional hunches that drive our decisions. We say we want to follow the evidence, but then the evidence rubs against a bias like loss aversion, and so we make an exception. We’ll follow the evidence next ...
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• a vexation of zombies

  
  Cocktail Party Physics — Authority: 103
  The next best thing to a Christmas feast has to be holiday leftovers, and the same is true at the cocktail party. In preparation for an exciting new year of cool science, Ive been cleaning out my overstuffed fodder file. Out with the old, and in with the new -- and for some reason, Ive got a bunch of random items ...
  3 days ago

• How Do We Understand Written Language?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the USA have now identified a specific part of the brain - named the left fusiform gyrus - which is ...
  3 days ago

• How brain encodes memories (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara have discovered how the brain encodes memories. According to researchers, the finding could eventually lead to the development of new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer’s.The researchers have uncovered a central process in encoding ...
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• Helmholtz şi viteza impulsului nervos

  
  Alex Torex Blog — Authority: 145
  Helmholtz şi viteza impulsului nervos La nivelul anului 1850 mulţi dintre oamenii de ştiinţă erau tributari vechii paradigme carteziene: materie-spirit, minte-trup. Se cunoştea însă că procesele cerebrale erau responsabile pentru coordonarea organismului; creierul era înţeles ca un fel de punct de ...
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• How the brain encodes memories

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 157
  How the Brain Encodes Memories at a Cellular LevelScienceDaily (Dec. 25, 2009) — Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories.
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• Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

  
  Alex Torex Blog — Authority: 145
  Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory. The team of ...
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• Antonio Damasio - Emotion, Feeling, and Social Behavior: The Brain Perspective

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 443
  While doing research for an article I am writing, I returned to Antonio Damasios The Feeling of What Happens to refresh myself on his ideas regarding the development of the Self. If you have never read it, I highly recommend it for his contention that consciousness is not merely a by-product of brain activity, but ...
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• Christmas carols originated from human speech: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): The notes of popular Christmas carols like “Jingle Bells” or “We Three Kings” have been borrowed from the sounds we make in everyday speech, reveals an acoustic researcher.According to Dale Purves, director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, the notes in ...
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