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Branding the brain
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers from the University of Michigan and Harvard University use cutting-edge brain-scanning technology to explore how different regions of the brain are activated when we think about certai...
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Neurobiology of sleep-wake cycle
Learn about the neurobiology of the sleep-wake cycle and implications for the understanding and management of insomnia in this Expert Column at Medscape.com.
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Subliminal fear
How does the brain respond to threatening input when we do not become aware of it? In a study by Liddell et al. it was demonstrated that subliminal fear reactions work through regions in the brainstem, pulvinar and amygdala, as...
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Hard to detect consciousness
We have previously reported about the consciousness monitor, an approach that seeks to use electroencephalograms to detect awakenings during anesthesia. In a recent study, one such monitor called Narcotrend, failed to demonstra...
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Waking up from PVS
The vegetative state is a paradoxical condition marked by loss of consciousness yet persistence of other functions such a day-night cycle. For this condition the rule of thumb has been that the longer a patient stays in this co...
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Deciding how to decide
What is the relationship between decision making and the frontal lobes? Lesley Fellows writes that “processes supported by ventral and medial prefrontal cortex need to be conceptualized more broadly, to account for change...
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Reminder: Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science
This is a reminder about the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science (BSCS) and its Call for Undergraduate Students for 2006.
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Genes, depression and medication
Whether depressed patients will respond to an antidepressant depends, in part, on which version of a gene they inherit, a study led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has discovered. Having two copies of o...
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Genes, brain/mind and behaviour
A conference in November 2006 seeks to combine the understanding og genes, brain, mind and behaviour. In addition, aspects of neuroethics will also be covered.