Posts Tagged ‘brain’
 
 
 
acupuncture
 

Acupuncture triggers neurotransmitters in the body

It’s been thirty years since Western medicine started to take Chinese acupuncture seriously, as a direct result of President Nixon’s “opening to China” in the 1970s. American doctors who visited hospit...
 
 
Darwinism
 

Flatworm ejaculation is triggered by dopamine… a lesson in ultraconservation.

In biology, “ultraconservation” does not mean wanting to go back to the Dark Ages. Instead, it’s a remarkable fact about remotely related species — say, the round worm C elegans and your aunt Molly ̵...
 
 
artificial intelligence
 

Has the Turing test really been cracked?

It’s every headline writer’s dream: A scientific breakthrough! Named after the great mathematician Alan Turing, so it has to be important! It was a dream nobody could resist. When the The University of Reading (UK)  announ...
 

 
acupuncture
 
"Winter Sadness"
"Winter Sadness"
"Winter Sadness"

Winter SADness? Stick a light in your ear!

An wonderful English madrigal from 1598 by Thomas Weelkes goes “To shorten Winter sadness see where the nymphs with gladness Falala lala lala Falala lala lala” And the nymphs  go dancing and singing through the tow...
 
 
brain networks
 

Fun with oscillations

http://www.myphysicslab.com/spring1.html Oscillations are an ubiquitous – shall we say archetypal – form for which Mother Nature has special fondness. I recall a discussion by physicist Richard Feynman where he stated somet...
 
 
artificial intelligence
 

When will we find our Legos?

                http://www.neurdon.com/2012/10/18/neural-assembly-computing-a-brief-overview/ For many of us growing up, Legos, not atoms or molecules, were the fundamental building block...
 

 
altered states
 

Get relaxed and that’s an order!

            http://www.eegproject.com/index.html In his best-selling book PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS, Dr. Maxwell Maltz introduced the Relaxation Response, a volitional program for turning OFF the fight-fl...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

Quora, when you just have to have intelligent responses

              https://www.quora.com/ You are obsessed with a question. Your sleep is interrupted. When you are sleeping, you dream about the question. You have discussed it with all the usual ...
 
 
brain science
 

Introduction to quantum entanglement

              The Leonard Susskind Lectures http://theoreticalminimum.com/ Why? Why in God’s universe do we need to consider quantum entanglement? Four reasons: 1. As a physical phenomenon, ...
 

 
abnormal psych
 

See cartoons: The new New Yorker science site

  Dramatic pictures and funny cartoons! Serious science and trending technology! Snappy editing and peppy prose! How would you pitch such a thing? Like combining National Geographic, Scientific American and The New Yorker ...