Skip to main content

Home/ Cognitive Science : From Neuroscience to Education/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by Cammy Torgenrud

Contents contributed and discussions participated by Cammy Torgenrud

Simple Middle Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics
Cammy Torgenrud

Zapping the brain sparks bright ideas - life - 03 February 2011 - New Scientist - 5 views

www.newscientist.com/...brain-sparks-bright-ideas.html

brain tDCS learning problem-solving

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 04 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe and non-invasive method of temporarily altering the activity of neurons by passing weak currents through electrodes on the scalp
  • Excitation of the right hemisphere and inhibition of the left made the participants three times more likely to figure out the correct answer within 6 minutes compared with those who received the sham treatment.
  • right ATL is associated with insight and novel meaning. It also backs up previous findings that the left ATL is involved in processing routine strategies and the maintenance of existing hypotheses
Cammy Torgenrud

Mental Health Disorders Untreated in Many Teens - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNe... - 3 views

www.medicinenet.com/...art.asp

teens adolescents psychology psychiatry diagnosis

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Researchers examined data from a nationally representative sample of 6,483 adolescents, aged 13 to 18, and found that only 36.2% of those with any mental disorder received treatment.
  • one in five teens with anxiety, eating or substance abuse disorders received treatment. In addition, Hispanic and black adolescents were less likely than whites to receive treatment for mood and anxiety disorders, even when the disorders caused severe impairment, the researchers noted.
Cammy Torgenrud

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness | Magazine - 3 views

www.wired.com/...1

psychology diagnosis psychiatry DSM5 abpsych

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • What the battle over DSM-5 should make clear to all of us—professional and layman alike—is that psychiatric diagnosis will probably always be laden with uncertainty, that the labels doctors give us for our suffering will forever be at least as much the product of negotiations around a conference table as investigations at a lab bench
Cammy Torgenrud

Seeking the Connectome, a Mental Map, Slice by Slice - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...28brain.html

connectome psychology neurobiology brain mindmap

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 29 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • how memories, personality traits and skills are stored.
  • The connectome is a product of your genes and your experiences. It’s where nature meets nurture.
Cammy Torgenrud

Differences in brain development between males and females may hold clues to mental hea... - 1 views

www.physorg.com/...brain-males-females-clues.html

brain neuroscience gender science psychology

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • female rats have about 30 to 50 percent more glial cells in the amygdala region of the temporal lobe of the brain than their male litter mates
  • females had lower amounts of endocannabinoids, which have been dubbed the brain's own marijuana because they activate cannabinoid receptors that are also stimulated by THC
  • female rats also played 30 to 40 percent less than male rats
Cammy Torgenrud

Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...14stream.html

psychology brain neuromarketing ads neuroscience cognitive

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Neuromarketing’s raison d’être derives from the fact that the brain expends only 2 percent of its energy on conscious activity, with the rest devoted largely to unconscious processing.
  • Add all those electrical patterns together, he says, and “you find it represents the whispers of the brain.”
Cammy Torgenrud

Educational Leadership:Closing Opportunity Gaps:The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...h-of-Pink-and-Blue-Brains.aspx

psychology brain gender education

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Few other clear-cut differences between boys' and girls' neural structures, brain activity, or neurochemistry have thus far emerged, even for something as obviously different as self-regulation.
  • Our actual ability differences are quite small. Although psychologists can measure statistically significant distinctions between large groups of men and women or boys and girls, there is much more overlap in the academic and even social-emotional abilities of the genders than there are differences (Hyde, 2005). To put it another way, the range of performance within each gender is wider than the difference between the average boy and girl.
  • epigenetic
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • Baby boys are modestly more physically active than girls (Campbell & Eaton, 1999). Toddler girls talk one month earlier, on average, than boys (Fenson et al., 1994). Boys appear more spatially aware (Quinn & Liben, 2008).
  • Avoid stereotyping
  • Appreciate the range of intelligences
  • Strengthen spatial awareness
  • Engage boys with the word
  • Recruit boys into nonathletic extracurricular activities
  • Bring more men into the classroom
  • Treat teacher bias seriously
Cammy Torgenrud

Brain Scans Spot Effective Bluffers - 0 views

www.medicalnewstoday.com/...206667.php

neuroscience psychology brain neuroscanning

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
  • he brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
Cammy Torgenrud

Nervous System | AnatomyCorner - 0 views

anatomycorner.com/...nervous-system

neuroscience brain anatomy science psychology

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Cammy Torgenrud on 04 Nov 10
     
    Some good slidesets of brain, etc... worth borrowing and reformatting
Cammy Torgenrud

Teasing Out the Effects of Environment on the Brain - Dana Foundation - 0 views

www.dana.org/...detail.aspx

epigenetics neuroscience psychology Dana brain

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Epigenetics is defined as the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Instead, they may be caused by “silencing” a gene, for example, rather than mutating it.
  • These changes remodel the architecture of the chromosomes, opening up a particular gene to the machinery that synthesizes protein, or closing it down, so that the gene is switched off.
Cammy Torgenrud

Sins of the Grandfathers - Newsweek - Sharon Begley - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/...your-sperm-and-eggs.print.html

neuroscience development epigenetics naturenurture psychology

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • the life experiences of grandparents and even great-grandparents alter their eggs and sperm so indelibly that the change is passed on to their children, grandchildren, and beyond. It’s called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  • the phenomenon in which something in the environment alters the health not only of the individual exposed to it, but also of that individual’s descendants.
  • Other labs, too, are finding that experiences—everything from a lab animal being exposed to a toxic chemical to a person smoking, being malnourished in childhood, or overeating—leaves an imprint on eggs or sperm, an imprint so tenacious that it affects not only those individuals’ children but their grandchildren as well.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • The result raises the intriguing possibility that the childhood-obesity epidemic is at least in part due to alterations in sperm caused by fathers-to-be eating a high-fat diet. After all, while it’s fine to blame kids’ couch-potato ways and fattening diets, that does not explain why obesity in babies has risen 73 percent since 1980.
  • how good your memory is during adolescence “can be influenced by environmental stimulation experienced by one’s mother during her youth
Cammy Torgenrud

6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using Soon - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ensors_youll_be_using_soon.php

brain neuroscience neuroscanning sensors

shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 02 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Cammy Torgenrud on 02 Nov 10
     
    "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET" and similarly cool new devices under development
1 - 19 of 19
Showing 20▼ items per page