Friday, July 31, 2020

Inflammaging and COVID-19

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I pass on the first paragraph from a Science Perspectives article by Akbar and Gilroy , and suggest that you have a look at the whole artic...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Stepping backwards enhances cognitive control.

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From Koch et al. , some interesting work on the role of body locomotion in the recruitment of control processes.: In the most fundamental ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Are you holding your breath?

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Note; This is a repeat of a post that I did on Jan. 28, 2008. Its theme led me to develop a lecture titled " Are you holding your brea...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

“Design fiction” skirts reality to provoke discussion and debate

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I want to suggest that readers have a look at David Adams Science and Culture essay in the June 16 issues of PNAS. Here is its beginning: ...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Dynamic Views of MindBlog

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In my review of old blog posts I've come across mention of a link I placed at the top right corner os this page... Dynamic Views of Mind...

Followup on MindBlog's Istanbul lecture on our subjective "I"

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Forgive me for inflicting my nostalgia trip on you as I do the following re-post from Oct. 18, 2010. 78 year old Deric is struck by the more...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Training internal resilience

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I want to point to an interesting article by Eva Holland on relieving trauma, which is very relevant to the potential mental0health fallout...
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

How we get stronger.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to studies on weight lifting monkeys that show weight training initially prompts increases in muscle strength by ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Mindblog does another anti-aging experiment.

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This is a repeat of a MindBlog post done Oct. 10, 2010 , encountered during an on-and-off review I'm doing of old blog posts. Five comme...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Our brain's chemistry of love neutralizes its chemistry of fear.

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Arthur Brooks, in his biweekly Atlantic Column , offers some very sane comments on the underlying fear that virtually all of us experience, ...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

A calming Brahms Romance for Monday afternoon.

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Yet another item I've stumbled upon in my review of old MindBlog posts:

Urgent care for our brains.

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I gave a Zoom lecture to the Austin Prime Timers group on May 17 titled "Urgent care for our brains" and thought I might as well p...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Mindblog's back office has expanded

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I want to introduce two new young MindBlog editorial assistants, Markus and Martin, three month old Abbysinian kittens who are in training t...

Benefits of exercise on aging brain obtained without exercise - by plasma transfer.

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There is a large literature on beneficial effects of exercise on brain health in agings adults such as improving memory and cognition. Mous...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

We navigate with stereo smell

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From Wu et al .: Significance The human brain exploits subtle differences between the inputs to the paired eyes and ears to construct ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The enlightenment returns.

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 OhMyGawd..... I just came across the following MindBlog post from March 31, 2009, celebrating Obama's statement on restoring government...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

How stress triggers inflammation

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Acute stress seems to amplify inflammatory disease despite the fact many stress hormones such as cortisol actually suppress the immune syste...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Gay scientists isolate christian gene.

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 Another of my old posts, from March 18, 2009: My thanks to friend Mark Weber for bringing this satire to my attention.
Friday, July 10, 2020

Nearest neighbors shape educational attainment regardless of class origin.

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From Hedefalk and Dribe : Significance Much neighborhood research has focused on contemporary and segregated cities in the United Stat...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

An interlude of Grieg's Lyric Pieces

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Almost every afternoon around 4 p.m. I open up my Steinway B and read some piano scores stored on my iPad. It takes very little effort to do...
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