neurology

While surfing the web last night I came across this article. By extension perhaps this explains why certain members are immune to knowledge and in particular flat Earthers since many if not all have a strong unwavery religious faith. Click "study" to read the abstract if desired...

This thread is intended to discuss consciousness from the point of view of biological studies on the brain. It's open to posting of research on the brain, and discussion of that research. Because threads on consciousness tend to get derailed into debates about AI, I feel I must say a couple of...

Didn't actually read the entire post by Cainkane1, (I skimmed it), but this part looked really interesting: Is there any medical benefit to silencing the part that separates self from the larger world? If so, how does one meditate effectively? I've read a few studies in psychology and...

I remember learning in high school biology that every part of the body has a matching area in the brain, with a size roughly corresponding to the number of sensory nerves in that body part - so the scalp is just a tiny patch, the torso is fairly small, the fingertips are huge, etc. But how does...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74jfCxJHEsw Interesting video. My theory is that everything he says is true, except the communicator was of course not an ET, but some person in a hidden room somewhere nearby. In other words it was a perfectly normal study using known techniques in experimental...

A friend sent me this rather cool educational website on the brain from McGill University: The Brain From Top to Bottom. Complete with learning modules at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, on topics ranging from evolution to language to sleep to mental illness. (apologies if this...

I'm currently writing a (brief) paper on synesthesia--the phenomenon of having one sensory input produce results characteristic of another sense, such as "seeing" colors with sounds or "tasting" colors--and wondered how many in this group have personal experience with same? The studies I'm...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/autism/selling-hope.html This person works out of her HOME. And she is not going to jail. Nope, still making money. Although I don't know how people fall for something so blatantly ridiculous as aromatherapy curing every ailment under the sun, I doubly...

http://labnotes.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=593703 I am posting this to get the unvarnished, raw opinion of this "No BS allowed" forum.

The other day I was listening to one of my favorite local radio shows/podcasts, Berkeley Groks and they had as their guests the creators of so-called "Primal Therapy." This show I consider to be rather respectable and they typically have guests that are informative if often a little dry. These...

University of New South Wales January 31, 2006 Research from UNSW provides the most convincing evidence to date that complex mental activity across people's lives significantly reduces the risk of dementia. The researchers found that such activity almost halves the incidence of dementia.