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The teenage brain may be particularly wired to develop disorders like addiction and depression, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh compared the brain activity of adolescent and adult rats involved in a task in which they anticipated a reward. The researchers found increased brain cell activity in the adolescent rats’ brains in an unusual area: the dorsal striatum (DS)—a site commonly associated with habit formation, decision-making, and motivated learning.
Teen brain may be primed for addiction - Holy Kaw!
Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind can now determine the action a person was planning, mere moments before that action is actually executed. Included in this report is several videos – one that shows FMRI data and another that contains interviews with the two lead researchers. The findings were published this week in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience, in the paper, “Decoding Action Intentions from Preparatory Brain Activity in Human Parieto-Frontal Networks.” “This is a considerable step forward in our understanding of how the human brain plans actions,” says Jason Gallivan, a Western Neuroscience PhD student, who was the first author on the paper. A volunteer completes tasks while in the functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) machine.
Future Actions Decoded And Predicted In The Human Brain » The Behavioral Medicine Report
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Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext.
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Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an experiment in which volunteers played a computer game called Cyberball while having their brains scanned by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine. Cyberball hearkens back to the nastiness of the school playground. “People thought they were playing a ball-tossing game over the Internet with two other people,” Eisenberger explains.
The Art of Good Humor : The Beautiful Brain
John Cleese is one of the funniest men alive. The veteran British comedian—who has appeared in classic films such as A Fish Called Wanda and Monty Python and the Holy Grail —is known for a unique blend of high- and low-brow humor. This, the thirty-third installment of his podcast, is a perfect example of intelligent silliness:
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Actress Goldie Hawn spoke at the TEDMED conference about her "very big, very broad dream" of bringing happiness to children. "I thought, let's do something drastic," she said. "Lets hope and pray for all kids to experience happiness."
TED Talks: Goldie Hawn, Daniel Siegel On Mindfulness For Childre
Neuroscience
Neuroscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system . [ 1 ] Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology . However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as psychology , chemistry , computer science , engineering , linguistics , mathematics , medicine and allied disciplines , philosophy , and physics . The term neurobiology is usually used interchangeably with the term neuroscience, although the former refers specifically to the biology of the nervous system , whereas the latter refers to the entire science of the nervous system. The scope of neuroscience has broadened to include different approaches used to study the molecular , cellular , developmental , structural , functional , evolutionary , computational , and medical aspects of the nervous system.
AtGoogleTalks (or @Google Talks or Talks@Google ) is a series of presentations by invited speakers sponsored by Google given at various Google offices throughout the world. The series has feature categories such as Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, Women@Google, Musicians@Google and others. For technical topics, there is Google Tech Talks (also known as EngEDU [ 1 ] ) which is dedicated to exploring areas of technology and science. Guest speakers range from present and past world leaders to little-known poets and artists. Talks range from about 40 to 70 minutes.
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The Charlie Rose Brain Series explores one of sciences final frontiers, the study of the human brain. Over the next year Charlie will interview the most knowledgeable scientists and researchers in hopes of illuminating a new topic of study. Each monthly episode will examine different subjects of the brain, including perception, social interaction, aging and creativity.
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Proust's evocation of childhood conjured by the tasting of the scalloped madeleine has become the template for remembrance of things past. But why does taste bring forth memories of such emotional power? Gourmand Ruth Reichl seeks to analyze our taste buds with psychologist Paul Rozin, who returns to Brainwave after his conversation with chef Mario Batali in Brainwave 2009.