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Daryl Bambic

Is Anybody in There? Searching for Consciousness in an Injured Brain | Wired Science | ... - 2 views

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  • eft to languish in nursing homes where no one bothers with physical therapy or even to check for glimmers of regained consciousness
  • many patients with no outward signs of awareness retain some degree of consciousness
  • In Wallis’ case, brain scans revealed evidence that his brain had rewired itself to some extent to compensate for the injury
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      Brains re-wiring themselves is called brain plasticity.  
  • y rare, a 2009 study by Belgian researchers found that 41 percent of hospital and rehab patients with a vegetative state diagnosis were actually minimally conscious
  • ike a flickering light, and you’re going to miss it unless you systematically look for it,” Fins said.
  • n a few cases, this technology has enabled rudimentary communication with patients trapped inside an unresponsive body. In the future, some scientists believe, it may be possible to directly decode these patients’ thoughts.
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      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      For an explanation of how this decoding might work, go to the end of the article.
  • Getting these methods right is crucial, as pressure mounts to use them in medical decisions, including whether or not to terminate life support, and in the legal battles that sometimes ensue. There are a number of ongoing legal cases in Canada that involve vegetative or minimally conscious patients and end of life decisions, says Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario. “I’m absolutely sure fMRI is going to play a role in one or more of these cases in the next 12 months.”
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      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      The role of technology in ethical decision making.
  • technology that created these disorders in the first place.
  • ut a badly damaged brain is not necessarily unconscious. The recent research tells us quite clearly that human consciousness is not binary. It can exist in degrees, fade in and out, even when the body is unresponsive.
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      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      Consciousness is not binary but a question of degrees.
  • wen also described a new way to assess mental function in unresponsive patients. It involves scanning someone’s brain as they watch an 8 minute clip of an Alfred Hitchcock film. When healthy people do this, various parts of the brain synchronize their activity at certain times in the clip. Owen argues that if brain injury patients exhibit similar patterns, it could be a telltale sign of residual cognitive function.
  • imple yes-no communication probably isn’t enough to allow patients to participate in decisions about their care.
  • Gallant’s lab has shown that it’s possible to reconstruct still images and video clips from the patterns of activity elicited in the brain of the person viewing them. If Gallant can see what your visual cortex is doing, he can tell you, more or less, what you’re looking at.
Daryl Bambic

Executive Summary | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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  •  Internet use does not pull people away from public places. Rather, it is associated with engagement in places such as parks, cafes, and restaurants, the kinds of locales where research shows that people are likely to encounter a wider array of people and diverse points of view. Indeed, internet access has become a common component of people’s experiences within many public spaces. For instance, of those Americans who have been in a library within the past month, 38% logged on to the internet while they were there, 18% have done so in a café or coffee shop.
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    This is an interesting idea for a project: do all the screens in our lives connect us or isolate us?
Anthony Baloukas

Is Genius Borne of Nature or Nurture? - 0 views

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  • Nurture would include education, parenting, learning, and time invested into the subject’s amount of learning.
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      This is what a person is given through his/her environment when growing up.
  • Nature is the way we automatically perceive without instruction.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is what a person is given through genetics.
  • A student who is unexposed to academic curriculum cannot be expected to perform algebra simply by instinct.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Example of how one could pretty much guide their child to be anything they want it to be. Whether it be successful, intelligent, athletic..
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  • Genius can be learned, it can be natural, but most importantly: it should be used.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Perhaps there aren't ways to necessarily produce a genius, but we can for sure push a person to reach his/her full potential. 
  • Galileo, who applied his scholarly knowledge and found truth. Alexander the Great, tactically in battle. Benjamin Franklin, the inventor of many modern devices. Albert Einstein, a superb and original scholar. Andy Warhol, for his outstandingly appealing original creativity. Bill Gates, a technological thinker who applied his knowledge creatively.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Examples of great geniuses in history
  • Therefore, we must assess that nature and nurture together combine to bring opportunity for genius.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      It has been concluded that both nature and nurture are combined to create what we call a "genius"
  • creativity is a part of our nature.
Helena Daoud

How poverty influences a child's brain development - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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      Trying to find ways to help children living in poverty
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      Helena Daoud on 07 Apr 13
       
      Not all children living in poverty grow up with physical or mental problems.
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    This article was very interesting to read because it proved that poverty does affect a child brain and I love that they are trying to find a way to make sure these children aren't terribly affected in the future. 
Dayna Rabin

Our brains are wired for storytelling | Socialgrrrl World - 1 views

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  • it is part of the human experience to want to communicate and share with each other through stories.
  • Even in a digital age, oral stories continue to be committed to memory and passed from generation to generation – fairytales, mythology, legends tie us to our history and give us a sense of belonging.
  • eople can only hold attention for 10 minutes at a time before they tune out
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  • we as marketers need to understand how we can adapt it to social media and digital technology.
  • The brain is so fascinating. It has been the focus of science and mystery alike trying to understand how it works including why it seems so wired for storytelling.
  • One thing we know is that large amounts of data or information with no context cannot be easily remembered;
  • The human brain can only hold about seven pieces of information for less than 30 seconds, which means, your brain can only handle a 7-digit phone number
  • omething interesting and relevant needs to happen in a lecture or presentation every 10 minutes so that the audience pays attention and remembers what you say
  • Hearing information told in the narrative from another person helps to reach the old brain, triggering emotion as we imagine ourselves in the story reacting and feeling.
  • Repeat to remember
  • ure data with no context is extremely difficult for the brain to put into long term memory –
  • thinking about fantasy first prepares us for situations that may come up in real life, narrative provides context.
  • The ‘old brain’ in humans is driven by basic primitive instincts such as hunger, sex and fight-or-flight are also intrinsically tied to emotion. 
  • The old brain does not understand numbers or abstract terms, like “integrated approach” or “comprehensive solution” which are an evolutionary part of our new brain
  • he old brain is influenced by beginnings and endings like in a simple story structure with patterns we can recogniz
  • It is important to not only recognize the history behind storytelling but explore why it is so prevalent across centuries, cultures and mediums
  • hearing a story in narrative about a specific situation actually helps us prepare for when this situation potentially happens to us.
  • share information with each other and will continue no matter what the medium.
  • We want stories to be memorable so they can easily be shared with others creating word of mouth.
Daryl Bambic

Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds | Science | The Gu... - 1 views

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      the lastest addiction
vince chatigny-barbosa

What Success Does for the Brain - 1 views

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  • the brain appears to react more to success than failure, supporting previous evidence that we learn more from a positive outcome than a negative one.
  • Monkeys
  • family pets respond more to reward than punishment
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  • the prefrontal cortex and the striatum—“keep track of recent successes and failures for many seconds, long enough for it to play a role in guiding the learning the next time an opportunity to learn comes up
  • monkeys’ brains are similar enough to humans
  • neural processing in the brain improves after a recent success and doesn't improve much after a recent failure
  • [T]he neurons themselves retained a memory of the correct action, paving the way for continued success
  • a study by psychology professor Mario Liotti. Liotti and his team examined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brains of swimmers who failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic team. The scans were recorded while the swimmers watched videos of their failed qualifying races. Liotti “found that a region of the brain that plans future actions (the pre-motor cortex) appeared inhibited when the elite athletes saw themselves “lose,”
  • But endorphins, which are “stimulated by exercise alone and heightened when accompanied by experiences like winning or a spectacular performance,” create “ephemeral” reactions in the brain
Daryl Bambic

Is Technology Wiring Teens to Have Better Brains? | PBS NewsHour | Jan. 5, 2011 | PBS - 0 views

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    multitasking and teen brains
dunya darwiche

Epilepsy - Diagnosis and Treatment at Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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