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The Strange Neuroscience of Immortality - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 16 Jul 12
     
    "Hayworth has spent much of the past few years in a windowless room carving brains into very thin slices. He is by all accounts a curious man, known for casually saying things like, "The human race is on a beeline to mind uploading: We will preserve a brain, slice it up, simulate it on a computer, and hook it up to a robot body." He wants that brain to be his brain. He wants his 100 billion neurons and more than 100 trillion synapses to be encased in a block of transparent, amber-colored resin-before he dies of natural causes."
Ciara Usher

Craftmatic Adjustable and Electric Beds - 1 views

I used to be a very busy person and frequently tired after work. A year ago I bought one of those fancy flat beds thinking that it was the perfect cradle. However, a few months later, I was sufferi...

craftmatic adjustable beds

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Tero Toivanen

Cognitive Daily: A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but... - 1 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • If you're taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds before you start.
  • It may be that this quick activity helps facilitate interaction between the brain hemispheres.
  • any activity that encourages communication between the hemispheres is likely to increase recall.
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  • people who have poorer interactions between the hemispheres should benefit more than others. Who has less interactions between hemispheres? People who are strongly right-handed.
  • Strongly right-handed students remembered significantly more words if they moved their eyes compared to keeping their eyes still. Non-strongly-right-handed students (including left-handers) remembered the same number of words regardless of whether they moved their eyes before the test.
  • strongly right-handed students had significantly fewer false alarms after they moved their eyes back and forth. But for non-strongly-right-handed people, the reverse occurred; moving their eyes caused them to falsely remember more words. So overall, while the eye-saccade exercise helped right-handers, for lefties and for those who didn't have a strongly dominant hand, the exercise actually harmed their performance.
  • You might think that only side-to-side movement would improve performance, but Lyle's team found that moving your eyes up and down caused the same effect.
  • researchers say that other studies have shown that any eye movements increase bilateral activity in the frontal eye field, so it's still possible that hemispheric connectivity can explain the improved performance after eye movements.
  • So why doesn't the exercise work the same way for left-handers? Left handers (and ambidextrous individuals) already have a high level of hemispheric connectivity. Lyle's team speculates that there might be such a thing as too much connectivity, which results in a decrease in performance.
Hypnosis Training Academy

8 Effective Hypnosis Techniques to Deal with Insomnia - 0 views

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    Curious to discover how you can use hypnosis for insomnia? Yes? Great, you've come to the right place. The Hypnosis Training Academy has compiled a list of 8 proven hypnosis techniques for better sleep, energy, and health. This in-depth article discusses the causes of insomnia, the medical side effects of prolonged sleeplessness, 9 non-hypnotic lifestyle changes that can help, in addition to 8 proven hypnosis techniques that'll get to the root cause of insomnia. If you'd like to learn how hypnosis can be used to treat sleep disorders, you won't want to miss this article. Read it, share it and never stop enhancing your hypnosis skills!
Meredith Blige

Effective Solution to Snoring Problem - 1 views

I have been snoring for almost a year now and my wife is constantly complaining about it. Since I cannot point out the exact reason that causes this problem, I went to our resident doctor for consu...

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John Clement

Highly Skilled Duct Cleaners - 1 views

I have noticed that almost all of us at home got some allergies that cannot be completely healed despite the kind of medicines that we took. I already suspected that it could have been caused by th...

started by John Clement on 18 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
nich95

How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick - 0 views

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  • "Negative emotionality" (NE) reflects a tendency toward depression, anxiety, and poor reaction to stress.
  • "Negative emotionality" (NE) is the antithesis of positive thinking.
  • NE refers to a propensity toward depression and anxiety, and a tendency to react to stressful situations with unpleasant emotions.
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  • "Everyone has a degree of negative emotionality," said Duncan B. Clark, a psychiatrist, psychologist, director of the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center, and lead author of the study. "This is not a disorder or a categorical trait; it is the degree to which an individual reports certain emotional characteristics."
  • However, I would not go so far as to say these health problems were 'all in their head.' Anxiety and depression have been shown to cause demonstrable physical changes."
MrGhaz .

Too Little Stress is Bad for You - 0 views

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    When we are anxious or frightened we may feel sick or get diarrhea. If we are angry or frustrated we can end up with a headache, indigestion or tense, aching muscles. These are fairly common complaints which most people suffer at some time. But how can stress play a part in illness such as heart attack, ulcers or depression?
Catherine Plano

A Reflection of YOU… - 0 views

Perception is ProjectionWhat does this mean? It means that your perception of people or situations around you is truly a projection of what is going on inside your mind.This is why two people can w...

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Tero Toivanen

Growing evidence of the brain's plasticity could benefit stroke victims or those suffer... - 1 views

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  • With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
  • Therapies that exploit the brain's power to adapt have helped people overcome damage caused by strokes, depression, anxiety and learning disabilities, and may one day replace drugs for some of these conditions.
  • Children with language difficulties have been shown to make significant progress using computer training tools that are the equivalent of cerebral cross-training.
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  • Neuroplasticity does not see the different regions of the brain as completely versatile and certainly not interchangeable. But it recognises that if part of the brain is damaged, it can be possible to train other areas to take on, at least to some extent, the job of the lost brain matter.
  • Doidge says he is not anti-medication, but wonders if therapies that tap into neuro-plasticity will soon replace drug treatments for certain conditions. "We can change our brains by sensing, imagining and acting in the world. It's economical and mostly low-tech, and I'm very, very hopeful"
  • Tero Toivanen on 08 Apr 09
     
    With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
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