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Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longer Life? A gene linked to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and addiction might also help you live to be 100.

Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longer Life?

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar. What is Consciousness. July 17, 2010 § The Consciousness Chronicles is a new DVD series that explores the phenomenon of consciousness from many different angles.

What is Consciousness

Each edition features exclusive in-depth interviews with some of the world’s leading pioneers in consciousness research. Volume 1 features David Chalmers, Susan Blackmore, Stuart Hameroff, John Jacobson, Rupert Sheldrake, Dick Bierman, Harald Atmanspacher, Zoran Josipovic, Arthur Hastings, Frank Echenhofer, Thomas Ray and Marilyn Schlitz. Content includes an introduction to studying consciousness, what is know as the “hard problem”, time and consciousness, altered states attained through meditation, psychedelics and ayahuasca, and an introduction to quantum theory. To obtain your copy of The Consciousness Chronicles DVD go to Or visit The Consciousness Chronicles Channel on YouTube Yes I have done my research and am quite aware that some of these people deal in “woo”.

Iousness and Cognition## David J.

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Chalmers Department of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 chalmers@arizona.edu.

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Kaitlyn Terrana Sleeping Beauty: Ontario Teen Has Serious Sleeping Disorder. 12 talks on understanding the brain. Read Montague is interested in the human dopamine system — or, as he puts it in this illuminating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, that which makes us “chase sex, food and salt” and therefore survive.

12 talks on understanding the brain

Specifically, Montague and his team at the Roanoke Brain Study are interested in how dopamine and valuation systems work when two human beings interact with each other. Twenty years ago, studying a topic like this was all but impossible because scientists relied on worms and rodents for insight into the brain. But today, in addition to animal research, neurobiologists have at their disposal functional MRI (fMRI), which allows them to make “microscopic blood flow movies” and map the activity of human brains in action. “We have a behavioral superpower in our brain and it at least in part involves dopamine,” says Montague in this talk. What’s Your Personal Food Policy?

Tom’s got a policy.

What’s Your Personal Food Policy?

Do you? The Thanksgiving holiday brings together an often incompatible assembly of vegetarians, paleoterians, pescatearians, breatharians and folks who just don’t give a damn, to share a meal. While I’m sure many family gatherings pass without controversy, many of the readers of this blog probably end up in uncomfortable discussions about where our food comes from. It’s a holiday that provokes a consideration of what Mark Bittman calls our “personal food policy.” The point Bittman makes about developing a personal food policy is that our choices at the dinner table make a difference. But as I started to write down my personal food policy I discovered so many contradictions and exceptions that I just stopped. Canadian Scientists Create Virtual Human Brain. A large scale model of a human brain has been created by a team of scientists at the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Canadian Scientists Create Virtual Human Brain

This is a virtual model, inside a computer, that involves 2,5 million virtual neurons structures in a pattern resembling the overall human brain’s anatomy, including cortical regions, motor control regions, etc. There are two components of the model: Visual processing including input and visual memory, and motor control sufficient to make a relatively simple, but 3D, arm move so it can draw things. The brain is called Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network, or, rather creepily, “Spaun.” Kleine-Levin Syndrome: 'Sleeping Beauty' Disorder Causes Kaitlyn Terrana, Ontario Teen, To Sleep 20 Hours A Day. When Ontario teenager Kaitlyn Terrana is having one of her episodes, she can sleep for 20 hours a day, 10 days at a time.

Kleine-Levin Syndrome: 'Sleeping Beauty' Disorder Causes Kaitlyn Terrana, Ontario Teen, To Sleep 20 Hours A Day

That's because Terrana has Kleine-Levin Syndrome -- sometimes dubbed the "Sleeping Beauty" disorder -- that causes her to sleep for long chunks of time, CBC reported. IMBES - Home. The human brain. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.

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To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close. Aviso de redirección. Applications of neuroscience to education among elementary and middle school teachers: A mixed-method exploration.

Applications of neuroscience to education among elementary and middle school teachers: A mixed-method exploration by Brevoort, Doris, Ph.D., SAYBROOK GRADUATE SCHOOL AND RESEARCH CENTER, 2012, 230 pages; 3541434 About ProQuest Dissertations & Theses With over 2.3 million records, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.

Applications of neuroscience to education among elementary and middle school teachers: A mixed-method exploration

It is the database of record for graduate research. The database includes citations of graduate works ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Of the 2.3 million graduate works included in the database, ProQuest offers more than 1.9 million in full text formats. Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice. We had the for­tune to inter­view Dr.

Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice

Brett Steen­barger on Enhanc­ing Trader Per­for­mance and The Psy­chol­ogy of Trad­ing as we launched our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series. Below, Expert Con­trib­u­tor Dr. Betelgeuze. Impaired spatial and contextual memory formation in galectin-1 deficient mice. Gal-1 is expressed in neurogenic and non-neurogenic regions in the hippocampus In order to characterize gal-1 expression in the adult hippocampus, we conducted a series of immunohistochemical analyses in adult wild-type (WT) mice. We first examined the specificity of our gal-1 antibody by staining WT vs. gal-1-/- mice (Figure 1A-B). In the hippocampus (and elsewhere in the brain) we found no evidence of staining in gal-1-/- mice [9,10], suggesting that this antibody binds only gal-1, and not, for example, other members of the galectin family which exhibit structural similarity in their lectin-binding domain [5,14,15].

Dopamine: the two-faced molecule behind addiction and Parkinson's disease - video. Funny Philosophy Quotes. Amazing video shows us the actual movies that play inside our mind. Upon rereading the entire article it does appear that the second clip shown to the subjects was fully reconstructed by what was learned from the brain in the first mapping session. Craters, blisters and Pringles: Do small irregularities on the brain surface give us clues about its functions? Stained plaster phrenological bust, London, England, 1821 The shape of the brain could tell us much about its function, but it may be the details that are important, as Professor Paul Fletcher explains. Franz Gall, the originator of phrenology believed that the shape of the brain determined the shape of the skull and that careful measurement of the latter could be used to assess the characteristics of the mind.

Pleasure and Pain. Pleasure is vital for our survival - without it we wouldn't eat or have sex, and would soon die out as a species. But how does pleasure work and what gives us the most pleasure in life? In an attempt to find out, Michael Mosley learns how the hottest chilli in the world creates euphoria in the brain, why parents have an overwhelming surge of love for their newborn child and what happens if you turn your own wedding into a chemistry experiment. We all know that where there is pleasure, pain can't be far behind, and Michael gamely exposes himself to some painful experiments to show why the two are so interlinked. Why is pain so important and how can we measure it?

How much pain are we prepared to put up with if the reward is right and what would happen if we couldn't feel pain at all? Etymology of Neuroscience Terms. Is Oxytocin the Key to Treating Social Deficits in People with Autism? Neuro Images. The Many Fields of Neuroscience: Shifting from Synapses to Society. Neuroscience has come a long way since the staining and identification of the neuron by Camillo Golgi and Ramón y Cajal over a century ago. Now the field has joined forces with other disciplines such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, and psychology, creating areas of focus that range from individual cells to social communities.

Combining specialties has helped progress the understanding of social behavior as well as various psychological disorders, which some say are the final frontiers in biological science. Sleep, Diet and Brain Function Are Genetically Linked. Everyone complains about insomnia. Statistically, women complain more often than men across all age groups. How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain. The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. A Public Coversation about Morality and the Brain. Patricia Churchland It had been some time since I had sat in a university lecture hall. But on March 30, a special event brought me to historic Havemeyer at Columbia University.

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