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Meditation alters your grey matter, studies show
From the Globe and Mail: Move over cryptic crosswords and Sudoku, and make way for the ultimate mental workout. It’s called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR for short. Recent neuroscience research shows that novice...
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Scientists look to new imaging techniques to measure metals in the brain
From the Globe and Mail: We are metal heads. Our brains need iron, copper, manganese and zinc to function, yet there is growing evidence that these metals may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease multiple...
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How Brains Are Built: Principles of Computational Neuroscience
From The Dana Foundation: Editor’s note: The goal of computational neuroscience is to understand the brain and its mechanisms well enough to artificially simulate their functions. In some areas, like hearing, vision, and pros...
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Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex
A. Etkinsend, T. Egner, R. Kalisch Article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences Abstract Negative emotional stimuli activate a broad network of brain regions, including the medial prefrontal (mPFC) and anterior cingulate (ACC) corti...
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Brain Waves and Meditation
From: ScienceDaily.com Forget about crystals and candles, and about sitting and breathing in awkward ways. Meditation research explores how the brain works when we refrain from concentration, rumination and intentional thinking...
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How Brain Activity is Linked to Sleep
From: PsychCentral.com Brain activity during times of wakefulness affects sleep and sleep quality. While researchers have been aware of this for some time, a clear understanding of how the mechanisms triggering sleep occur has ...
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The Midline of a Living Human Brain
fountain of long cell fibers explodes along the midline of the human brain. Computational neuroscientists study nervous systems in terms of their information processing capabilities. Standing at the junction of computer scien...
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“Erasing” Traumatic Memories Moving from Science Fiction to Scientific Reality
From: TheGlobeandMail.com The brain has a remarkable capacity for keeping track of our past experiences. But detailed memories can sometimes seem more a curse than a blessing. This is especially true for those who’ve suffered...
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Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music
Enjoy this short, amusing video on the power of our human brain with regard to music. From: Ted.com Interesting comments: Jeff Weir Dec 4 2010: I think beyond the “predictive” nature of the human brain, there lies t...
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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
From: NYTimes.com. Check out the puzzles in this article. They look easy, and mostly they are. Click here to see the puzzles. Given three words: trip, house, and goal, for example, find a fourth that will complete a compound wo...