#neuoscience

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We have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders. We tend to view them [...] as chemical imbalances in the brain [...] this view is conditioned by the fact that many of the drugs that are prescribed to treat these disorders [...] act by globally changing brain chemistry, as if the brain were indeed a bag of chemical soup. But that can’t be the answer, because these drugs actually don’t work all that well. A lot of people won’t take them, or stop taking them, because of their unpleasant side effects. These drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block.  An emerging view is that psychiatric disorders are actually disturbances of neural circuits that mediate emotion, mood, and affect. When we think about cognition, we analogize the brain to a computer. Well, it turns out that the computer analogy is just as valid for emotion, it’s just that we don’t tend to think about it that way. But we know much less about the circuit basis of psychiatric disorders because of the overwhelming dominance of this “chemical imbalance” hypothesis. Now, it’s not that chemicals are not important in psychiatric disorders, it’s just that they don’t bathe the brain like soup. Rather, they’re released in very specific locations, and they act on specific synapsis, to change the flow of information in the brain.

David Anderson

[aiclaudio]

Neurowissenschaftler einer niederländischen Universität haben mit einem neuronalen Netz aus gezeichneten Gesichtern fotorealistische Bilder erstellt. Nur bei der Farbgebung trafen die Ergebnisse nicht immer ganz zu. via Predictive Analytics ( I4.0 / IoT ) Interest Group

[judithwesterfield]

The Ultimate DYI - I'll make me a new pea brain

The Ultimate DYI – I’ll make me a new pea brain

As my fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue symptoms go unabated I have asked my doctor Patricia Ahearn repeatedly to get her lobotomy certificate.  I’m sure there is week-end or on-line training for doctors.  She’s a very caring person so it’s been hard to understand why she’s been stalling.

Maybe she’s been waiting for this new research?!!!!!!

hmmm . . . speed up the evolutionary process . . . we could…

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[fictional-seviper]

A new (more scientific design) now available on TeePublic!

[audraeyster]

“Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz So if a regular person is to be able to eliminate other colors than u conclude that the non-normal person does not eliminate other colors,and even other energy & mass, and therefore those who see white and gold are able to see and sense things more than the black/blue people. If, white/gold people have a different perspective on just a dress imagine how the group as a whole perceive other things in the world? Can white/gold people possess the ability to go beyond just the color perception and sense energy (our complete connection to everything)? Very intrigued

[aiclaudio]

You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis — he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the first ball of the 2014 World Cup. What’s he working on now? Building ways for two minds (rats and monkeys, for now) to send messages brain to brain. Watch to the end for an experiment that, as he says, will go to "the limit of your imagination." via A.I. Research @ www.ai-claudio.com

[aiclaudio]

Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. This is our opportunity. via A.I. Research @ www.ai-claudio.com