Brain is not fully mature until 30s and 40s (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the UK shows the brain continues to develop after childhood and puberty, and is not fully developed until people are well into their 30s and 40s. The findings contradict current theories that the brain matures much earlier. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a neuroscientist with the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, said until around a decade ago many scientists had "pretty much assumed that the human brain stopped developing in early childhood," but recent research has found that many regions of the brain continue to develop for a long time afterwards. The prefrontal cortex is the region at the front of the brain just behind the forehead, and is an area of the brain that undergoes the longest period of development. Prof. In earlier research Professor Blakemore studied the brains of teenagers in detail, as reported in PhysOrg. Explore further: Study: Our brains compensate for aging
Neurobiologie et psychanalyse Neurosciences et Psychanalyse - Plasticité et Homéostasie - L'émergence de la singularité - François ANSERMET, Pierre MAGISTRETTI - 58mn - Collège de France - 2008 Colloque neurosciences et psychanalyse, le 27 mai 2008 - "Neurosciences et psychanalyse : une rencontre autour de l'émergence de la singularité" - Organisé par Pierre Magistretti au Collège de France The dynamics of our internal representations : Memory consolidation, reconsolidation and the integration of new information with the past - Durée du programme : 58 mn - Date de réalisation : 27/05/2008 Producteurs : Collège de France - C.E.R.I.M.E.S. - Réalisateurs : Marcel LECAUDEY - Loïc QUENTIN Disciplines : Neurosciences et psychanalyse, Neurosciences Classification Dewey : Psychologie, Neurophysiologie et physiologie sensorielle, Cerveau François ANSERMET : Psychanalyste Pierre MAGISTRETTI : Professeur de Neurosciences Co-Directeur du Brain Mind Institute de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Directeur du Centre de Neurosciences Psychiatriques du Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie du CHUV, Université de Lausanne
Multipotentiality: multiple talents, multiple challenges One of the myths of highly talented people is they can choose whatever personal and career paths they want, and realize their abilities without hindrance. It doesn’t exactly work that easily. In her Unwrapping the Gifted post “ Multipotentiality ,” K-12 gifted education specialist Tamara Fisher quotes Bryant (a pseudonym), a graduating senior who lists his possible future careers as “applied psychologist, scientific psychologist, college teacher, philosophy, mathematics, architect, engineer.” He says, “I find it difficult to choose between careers because I fear how large the choice is. Fisher notes, “Multipotentiality is the state of having many exceptional talents, any one or more of which could make for a great career for that person. “Gifted children often (though of course not always) have multipotentiality. “On the bright side, they have many realistic options for future careers. She adds that having “so many great possible outcomes can be a source of debilitating stress.” Related:
The Dark Side of Oxytocin, the Hormone of Love - Ethnocentrism Yes, you knew there had to be a catch. As oxytocin comes into sharper focus, its social radius of action turns out to have definite limits. The love and trust it promotes are not toward the world in general, just toward a person’s in-group. Oxytocin turns out to be the hormone of the clan, not of universal brotherhood. A principal author of the new take on oxytocin is Carsten K. In a report published last year in Science, based on experiments in which subjects distributed money, he and colleagues showed that doses of oxytocin made people more likely to favor the in-group at the expense of an out-group. These nationalities were chosen because of a 2005 poll that showed that 51 percent of Dutch citizens held unfavorable opinions about Muslims, and other surveys that Germans, although seen by the Dutch as less threatening, were nevertheless regarded as “aggressive, arrogant and cold.” Well-socialized Dutch students might be unlikely to say anything derogatory about other groups. In Dr.
John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity British actor John Cleese is best known for his comedic talent as one of the founding members of Monty Python, which makes his intellectual insights on the origin of creativity particularly fascinating. This talk from the 2009 Creativity World Forum in Germany is part critique of modernity’s hustle-and-bustle, part handbook for creating the right conditions for creativity. “We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. Cleese advocates creating an “oasis” amidst the daily stress where the nervous creature that is your creative mind can safely come out and play, with the oasis being guarded by boundaries of space and boundaries of time. Another interesting point Cleese makes is that knowing you are good at something requires precisely the same skills you need to be good at it, so people who are horrible at something tend to have no idea they are horrible at all.
Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Context Because positive biomedical observations are more often published than those reporting no effect, initial observations are often refuted or attenuated by subsequent studies. Objective To determine whether newspapers preferentially report on initial findings and whether they also report on subsequent studies. Methods We focused on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Results Seven of the “top 10” publications were initial studies and the conclusions in six of them were either refuted or strongly attenuated subsequently. Conclusion Because newspapers preferentially echo initial ADHD findings appearing in prominent journals, they report on uncertain findings that are often refuted or attenuated by subsequent studies. Figures Citation: Gonon F, Konsman J-P, Cohen D, Boraud T (2012) Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Editor: Isabelle Boutron, University Paris Descartes, France Introduction
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Pierre-Henri Castel : « L’Esprit malade. Cerveaux, folies, individus Critique"L'Esprit malade. Cerveaux, folies, individus", de Pierre-Henri Castel : maux d'esprit LE MONDE DES LIVRES | 11.02.10 Le dernier livre du philosophe et psychanalyste Pierre-Henri Castel inaugure une nouvelle collection aux éditions Ithaque, et ce à tous les sens du terme : il en constitue le premier ouvrage, mais l'on veut aussi penser qu'il saura lancer un nouveau style de philosophie de l'esprit en langue française. Au premier abord, pourtant, ce recueil d'essais intitulé L'Esprit malade ne semble que procéder à l'interminable élucidation d'une tautologie, que l'on pourrait ainsi résumer : dans la "maladie mentale", ce qui est malade... c'est le mental. Car cette thèse va à l'encontre de la position dominante dans les neurosciences, pour laquelle l'esprit n'est rien d'autre que l'ensemble des activités neuronales. L'érudition et la finesse que déploie l'auteur pour esquisser ce programme de recherche sont renversantes. "Force d'interpellation" C'est que l'enjeu est de taille.
La conception psychanalytique de la création artistique "Avant de terminer cette leçon, je voudrais encore attirer votre attention sur un côté des plus intéressants de la vie imaginative. Il existe notamment un chemin de retour qui conduit de la fantaisie à la réalité : c'est l’art. L'artiste est en même temps un introverti qui frise la névrose. Animé d'impulsions et de tendances extrêmement fortes, il voudrait conquérir honneurs, puissance, richesses, gloire et amour des femmes. Mais les moyens lui manquent de se procurer ces satisfactions. C'est pourquoi, comme tout homme insatisfait, il se détourne de la réalité et concentre tout son intérêt, et aussi sa libido, sur les désirs créés par sa vie imaginative, ce qui peut le conduire facilement à la névrose. Freud, Introduction à la psychanalyse, 1916, trad. "Il existe notamment un chemin de retour qui conduit de la fantaisie à la réalité : c'est l'art. Freud, Introduction à la psychanalyse, 1916, tr. fr. Retour au menu sur l'inconscient Retour au menu sur l'art
Neuroeconomics: The Consilience of Brain and Decision -- Glimcher and Rustichini 306 (5695): 447 Paul W. Glimcher 1 * , and Aldo Rustichini 2 Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a single, unified discipline with the ultimate aim of providing a single, general theory of human behavior. This is the emerging field of neuroeconomics in which consilience, the accordance of two or more inductions drawn from different groups of phenomena, seems to be operating. Economists and psychologists are providing rich conceptual tools for understanding and modeling behavior, while neurobiologists provide tools for the study of mechanism. The goal of this discipline is thus to understand the processes that connect sensation and action by revealing the neurobiological mechanisms by which decisions are made. 1 Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. 2 Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. The editors suggest the following Related Resources on sites: M. C.