Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Theories of consciousness

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A valuable summary article from Anil Seth and Time Bayne. The article has excelent graphics demonstrating the four main models of conscious...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

The allure of conspiracy theories.

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Edsall does a nice essay on the allure of conspiracy theories which are playing a significant role in the current decline of a humane Ameri...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Magnetic stimulation of the brain can improve cognitive impairment

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An open source article from Liu et al. in the journal Cerebral Cortex reports that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Effortless training of attention and self-control

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I pass on the highlights statement from a fascinating opinion piece by Tang et al. (motivated readers can obtain a copy of the text from me...
Monday, June 20, 2022

MindBlog in Crypto-Land

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Unless you have been hiding in a cave (not a bad place to be these days) you have doubtless been following the current crash of the stock ma...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

Testerone production in adult men is regulated by an adolescent period sensitive to family experiences.

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 From Gettler et al. : Significance Testosterone influences how animals devote energy and time toward reproduction, including opposing de...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The brain signature of choosing to accept pain in exchange for future reward

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From Coll et al. :  Significance We often willingly experience pain to reach a goal. However, potential pain can also prevent reckless acti...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Neural signatures of major depressive, anxiety, and stress-related disorders

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Some fascintating observation from Zhukovsky et al. ,  (open source, nice graphics of brain imaging results) who find that major depressive ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

The Conscious Turing Machine - a blueprint for conscious machines.

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I want to point to a paper in the current PNAS by Blum and Blum , "A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspe...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Stories move the heart - literally

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Continuing my thread of heart activity realted posts ( here , and here ), I'll mention that I've enjoyed reading this open access PN...
Monday, June 06, 2022

I am not my problem

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An explanation of the strange title of this post: Sometimes a new idea spontaneously appears from nowhere as I am waking in the morning. T...
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Friday, June 03, 2022

Beginnings

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The title of this post is the title of one of the mini-essays in a piece on my website, written 20 years ago, called " MINDSTUFF: BONBO...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health - measurements with the 'magic ring'

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This post is a follow-up to the previous post on brain-heart interplay in emotional arousal, and points to Thayer et al.'s meta-analysis...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Brain-Heart interplay in emotional arousal - resolving a hundred year old debate

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Candia-Rivera et al. do a fascinating piece of work that answers some long-standing issues in the century old debate on the role of the aut...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life

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I have resumed cruising journals' tables of contents after a lapse due to shifting my attention elsewhere , and just came across this in...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Why is a moving hand less sensitive to touch than a stationary hand?

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Fuehrer et al. do a nice piece showing how our brains' predictive processing can alter our sensory experience:   Significance Tactil...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Mozart and Brahms Piano Trios at an 80th birthday house concert

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This post falls in the 'random curious stuff' category mentioned under MindBlog's title. On May 15, one day before my 80th birth...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Harmonics of the social brain

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Interesting work from Mague et al. on the brain-wide network in mice that encodes rewarding social experience:  Highlights • Mach...
Monday, May 16, 2022

How stress might help reduce dementia and alzheimer’s.

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The post today (my 80th birthday) points to experimental results relevant to my interest in not losing my marbles anytime soon. Fauzia point...
Friday, May 13, 2022

The tabula sapiens consortium - mapping cell types in the human body

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It is hard to keep up with the mind boggling advances that pop up in almost every issue of Science Magazine. In a perspective article Liu a...