neurobiology

For all mystics and theists who have interacted with "god"....have a look at this video and PONDER that you might be just having a DELUSION. It is not a coincidence that to "see gods" one has to do something that is mind altering in one way or another. Either not eating, or ingesting too much...

I am making this thread because for years people have been arguing about the origins of consciousness and I haven't yet seen someone go into much detail about exactly how it might occur. I mean, the computational model proponents are clear about consciousness being a form of "self referential...

I will never be a reductionist materialist about everything, and there's no use trying. But that's IT, I've HAD it; I really think I'll subscribe to that philosophy to at least some degree in ONE field, and that's psychiatry. I do not want to deal with ANY more nutty ideas about how indigo...

What is it about the denial of mental illness/mental disorders/neurological disorders that seems to be so appealing to some people? Is there a different appeal to denying each group? (For instance, the first group might contain schizophrenia, and ADHD would be in the second group kind of shading...

I wonder if anyone can help enlighten me about this: http://cbcl.mit.edu/news/files/caltech-6-05.html ...which suggests that individual neurons in the brain have been shown to 'think', or more accurately, respond to particular images by firing. The reasoning seems quite wrong from what I've...

This is for a book I'm working on. Just like the title says, generally speaking, at what age do most people's brains stop develping? In other words, at what age do we finally become adults? I've heard that the the age is actually twenty-four (strangely enough, the same age you have to be to...