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Pain: From molecules to suffering
What is pain: a sensation, an experience, a symptom, or even a disease? We are all familiar with this deceptively simple term, but when it comes to description simplicity ends. No single definition seems to be able to encapsula...
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A Global Workspace perspective on mental disorders
Rodrcik Wallace has uploaded a manuscript to CogPrints Abstract Recent developments in Global Workspace theory suggest that human consciousness can suffer interpenetrating dysfunctions of mutual and reciprocal interaction with ...
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New Science & Consciousness Review is Live!
Update Oct 3, 2006 — This was our brief experiment with the TikiWiki CMS. We eventually switched. This page probably looks different from how you remebered it. After a brief hiatus for reconstruction, the Science & C...
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Wikibooks: Consciousness studies
A new “Wikibook” has appeared on the subject of consciousness. Is the SCR forum up to it? Wikibooks are electronic books that are part of the Wikimedia program of Open Publishing. The book can be found at: Wikibooks...
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Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep
When we fall asleep, consciousness fades yet the brain remains active. Why is this so? Massimini et al Science, Vol 309, Issue 5744, 2228-2232 , 30 September 2005 To investigate whether changes in cortical information transmiss...
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Emotion and consciousness: Ends of a continuum
Alexandrov et al. Cognitive Brain Research Volume 25, Issue 2 , October 2005, Pages 387-405 We suggest a united concept of consciousness and emotion, based on the systemic cognitive neuroscience perspective regarding organisms ...
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Brain cells may know more than you let on by your behaviour
Thunderstorm clouds ominously darken the horizon. We nonetheless go out without an umbrella because we are distracted and forget. But do we? Neurobiologists carried out experiments that prove for the first time that the brain r...