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PhysicsForums Study: Emotion rules the brain's decisions (USAToday.com)  
03:49 8-Aug-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 136]    By: Unnamed
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...in-study_x.htm Quote:...
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PhysicsForums deep brain stimulation  
18:00 6-Aug-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 365]    By: Unnamed
I am reading an article in this month's SciAm mind about treating depression with deep-brain stimulation. Researchers found that an area known as Area 25 is overactive in patients with severe depressi...
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PhysicsForums Chronic back pain causes brain shrinkage  
23:09 2-Aug-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 221]    By: Unnamed
I found this article very interesting. http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-rel...1/chronic.html...
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PhysicsForums how to improve your memory  
16:32 1-Aug-06   [Replies: 33, Views: 2481]    By: Unnamed
Hi everyone, Does anyone know any good trick out there that can improve your memory? For instance, any technique to remember things. I have a bad memory, so I am finding ways to improve it...
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PhysicsForums Info on the role of self-awareness in evolution?  
17:13 31-Jul-06   [Replies: 11, Views: 404]    By: Unnamed
I'm looking for a good book/paper/whatever that discusses the role of self-awareness in the evolution of primates/early humans. Basically, I'm looking for a work that addresses questions like: Wha...
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PhysicsForums What's it called when....  
01:19 29-Jul-06   [Replies: 11, Views: 273]    By: Unnamed
Is there a term for the phenomenon that I experienced last weekend ? I got out the steamvac to clean carpets and noted the dirty water collector tank was missing. I looked all over the house and gar...
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PhysicsForums Migraines  
17:20 28-Jul-06   [Replies: 23, Views: 889]    By: Unnamed
All Migraines are Not the Same All migraines do not include all of these phases, and even people who experience one or more of these phases may not be subjected to them all the time. Still, it's im...
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PhysicsForums "Brain Pacemaker" for epilepsy sufferers  
23:59 27-Jul-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 125]    By: Unnamed
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7163 Quote:...
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PhysicsForums No named research  
14:32 27-Jul-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 137]    By: Unnamed
(sorry on the un-official sounding of this post) I have been conducting my own little crazy study, and I wish to get responses, and critisism for this. This whole thing is sort of along the line...
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PhysicsForums What causes anxiety?  
03:47 27-Jul-06   [Replies: 38, Views: 998]    By: Unnamed
I have a friend who suffers from severe anxiety, her mind tells her that bad things are going to happen, like sicknesses, or other things, and she sees actual pictures in her mind of bad things that s...
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PhysicsForums Chess, the Drosophilia of Cognitive Science  
22:59 26-Jul-06   [Replies: 15, Views: 632]    By: Unnamed
A really terrific sciam article on the study of expert knowledge, talent and their interaction to enable "magical" performance. Worth a lot of thought!...
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PhysicsForums Artificially recreating déjà vu  
19:11 26-Jul-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 114]    By: Unnamed
Very interesting stuff... Quote:...
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PhysicsForums thinking without trying  
10:27 15-Jul-06   [Replies: 23, Views: 903]    By: Unnamed
Ive noticed something about myself when i try to solve a problem consciously i can't do it i'd be stuck there for hours and then i'd give up and like a nagging song the problem would surface again and...
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PhysicsForums Big Headedness (Literally)  
22:44 11-Jul-06   [Replies: 6, Views: 335]    By: Unnamed
Alright folks, here I am, and here it comes. I have a big head. Not like, arrogance wise, but physically my skull is rather larger. I'm 14 and it's about 22 or 23 inches all the way around. My friends...
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PhysicsForums whats considered a substantial health condition?  
02:30 5-Jul-06   [Replies: 6, Views: 224]    By: Unnamed
would bi-polar disorder be considered a substantial health condition? or does it truly depend on the patient? also, would chronic anxiety also be considered a substantial health condition? tyvm ...
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PhysicsForums My learning cat naps  
06:37 4-Jul-06   [Replies: 3, Views: 189]    By: Unnamed
When I am trying to absorb a lot of new concepts that I am studying and trying to reason out(without luck), I find that I read them several times and then I go into a mental fatigue. Often, I will lay...
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PhysicsForums An Interview with Steven Pinker  
03:11 3-Jul-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 191]    By: Unnamed
At the site Gene Expression (GNXP) they regularly do 10-questions-for interviews with notable thinkers and this latest one, http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/07/10-...ven-pinker.php, is with the author of...
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PhysicsForums brain to brain data exchange  
12:51 2-Jul-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 158]    By: Unnamed
Hi, i am also doing some research on the above mentioned subject. To be more specific, I am working on brain interfaces through which the datas of any formats can be sent and received. I believe human...
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PhysicsForums Artificial life  
23:02 1-Jul-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 166]    By: Unnamed
Has anyone here heard of artificial life? It is a growing discipline where the idea is a bottom-up approach of starting with lots and lots of simple systems, and hoping they evolve to show emergent...
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PhysicsForums electroencephalography questions  
03:18 30-Jun-06   [Replies: 3, Views: 129]    By: Unnamed
SO they characterize it into alpha,beta,gamma,and delta waves. Are those just different behavioral patterns of the same wave or distinct waves that can all be seen on the same diagram? There isn't a g...
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PhysicsForums Autsim -many people does not care!  
02:51 30-Jun-06   [Replies: 51, Views: 1576]    By: Unnamed
Hey, I have read many articles regarding Autism but I think i have not grasp even its basics in an excellent way. I wonder: Does individuals with Autism really 'do not care' about others since ...
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PhysicsForums Time Perception - YES, IT IS SUBJECTIVE  
18:49 26-Jun-06   [Replies: 16, Views: 845]    By: Unnamed
Essentially, research is now showing that time IS a subjective thing. For example, there is the often held notion that time passes faster as you grow older. Scientific experiments actually seem to be ...
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PhysicsForums cell assembly  
05:05 24-Jun-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 245]    By: Unnamed
I just started reading about Donald O. Hebb and his theories about cell assemblies. I am stuck on something really simple. From what I have read, if two neurons have a synaptic connection and they fir...
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PhysicsForums The Amygdala And Social Conformity  
09:03 23-Jun-06   [Replies: 2, Views: 124]    By: Unnamed
I met a guy recently at a coffee house who, coincidently, turned out to be pretty interested in neurology, like myself, and he told me about a study that showed that when people stick to their guns an...
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PhysicsForums Jeff Hawkins  
12:49 21-Jun-06   [Replies: 16, Views: 1167]    By: Unnamed
Has anybody read Jeff Hawkins „On intelligence“? I found it a fascinating read and his proposed ideas very plausible. Unfortunately there is not much more further reading since literatu...
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