Posts Tagged ‘neural activity’
It’s lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm
THE effects of cannabis on mental health have attracted much attention over the years. As far back as the 19th century it was recognised that cannabis could induce a transient psychosis which mimics the symptoms of schizophrenia. Despite this, until the last decade or so, most psychiatrists regarded...
January 29th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Can we crack the Consciousness Puzzle?
CONSCIOUS experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is extraordinarily hard to reconcile it with everything else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly arise from...
January 28th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
Quining Qualia
Dan Dennett’s seminal argument about the properties conscious experience is a must-read for anyone interested in the question of whether the mind/conscious experience is reducible to purely physical/scientific terms. You may not think he’s right, but he’s certainly worth a read…
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January 26th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Rats Addicted To Gambling
Rats Compulsively Gamble for Same Reason Humans Do: Lack of Serotonin
Rats in laboratory tests learned to gamble based on a system of punishments and rewards, strategizing like human gamblers. And when researchers tweaked the animals’ brain chemistry to mimic that of humans with a gambling addiction,...
January 22nd, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More
Does Cocaine make you Smarter?
Hey. Did any of you read this paper on the role of G9a in cocaine-induced dendritic spine plasticity? No? OK, well did you at least read this summary of the findings in Time? Still no? Fine. The gist is that repeated coke use suppresses a protein called G9a, which slows the growth of dendritic spines...
January 15th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Can Human Nature Be Changed?
An introduction to the discoveries of Bart Huges relating to the economics of the blood supply in the brain, consciousness, LSD, and trepanation – something new…
Life is a struggle for survival. For plant or animal of any kind that is an unescapable fact. It is true for each individual...
December 30th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More
Rat Made Supersmart — Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?
By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says.
A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good.
Matt Kaplan for National Geographic News
For years...
December 16th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion
Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough discovery that changed the way scientists understand the mind-body connection. She found the opiate receptor, the mechanism by which a class of chemicals (peptides) alters the mind and...
December 8th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Huxley on Drugs and Creativity
Aldous Huxley interviewed for The Paris Review (1960), reprinted in Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer (Park Street Press, 1999)
Interviewers: Do you see any relation between the creative process...
November 30th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
Avian Einsteins
How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel on an exploration of how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing sharp new insights into how we acquire language and the links between hearing and movement.
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November 25th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More
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