Posts Tagged ‘brain science’
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...
brain experiments
NOVA beta
Please put away your books and notes, it’s time for a quiz. Circle the answer below which best represents the date of the first computer. 1822 CE 70 BCE 1206 CE 1941 CE 2700 BCE Depending on your perspective, and wh...
altered states
If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?
This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...
Cool Runnings
FracLac for ImageJ
Audrey Karperien’s lab at the School of Community Health, Faculty of Science, Charles Stuart University, Australia has given us a free fractal, multifractal and lacunarity analysis suite called FracLac, a plugin for Image J...
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...
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 ...
altered states
Walter Freeman and the Order of William James
The Society for Mind Brain Sciences aims to quicken public and scientific interest in consciousness science. It is worth recalling that in the United States consciousness science was among the earliest topics considered in the ...
artificial intelligence
Read All about It: Neuroscience questions answered
Anyone comparing the title of today’s blog and the website memorialized may experience cognitive dissonance. Or has the editor succumbed completely to physics fetishism? In point of fact, this venerable website contain...
abnormal psych
Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks
TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
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Your own mouse brain
A few years ago I let slide a scanning electron microscope for sale on eBay for $800. I am glad I let it go. Dr. Partha Mitra and the good folks at MIT are presenting to the neuroscience community and the general public an atla...