Posts Tagged ‘human brain’
 
 
 
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 ...
 
 
artificial intelligence
 

mCRL2: Are there process algebras in our brain?

  When Cool Runnings had its one year birthday recently, we took time to reflect on what kind of sites we had come to particularly value. They had to do with neuroscience, of course, and when possible, with consciousness s...
 
 
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 ...
 

 
brain experiments
 

Good ol’ RasMol: Molecular modeling for the masses

                  Chemical effects on the brain are both fascinating and necessary for survival. Endogenous neuromodulators and neurotransmitters and their receptors are switches whi...
 
 
altered states
 

Mental physics

                          Mullah Nasruddin embodies the way of the wise fool to which one aspires  with increasing maturity: One day, people saw Mullah Nasruddin...
 
 
basal ganglia
 

A 20 micron resolution 3D map of a human brain

            Resolution is now often measured in pixels, but the more familiar method is to use measures of distance. Resolution is not the same as size, although the two terms are sometimes conflat...
 

 
abnormal psych
 

What I did on my summer vacation: mind hacks

When faced with a huge task, a truly humungous task which stretches out over the horizon and with no sensible timely end – bailing out the ever-expanding oceans with a tea spoon is a commonly thought of example – it’s...
 
 
basal ganglia
 

Play the Name the Brain Game

At last, Cool Runnings brings you something you have always wanted: an interactive web site which will teach you 91 brain structures! The head-, neck-, spine- and brainchild of Brett Young, MD, at the site’s birth a neuroradi...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

Will what is missing solve consciousness?

              In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
 

 
art
 

ConneXions

From the website: Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create ...