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 - Get Out of Your Own Way
 Jun 28, 8:22am  (2 reviews) self-improvement, neuroscience, consciousness, decision, overthinking http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12145060...
- Mad Science: Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood
- Mar 30, 2:16am (28 reviews) neuroscience http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-b...
- Stem cells decrease inflammation & allows to generate new cells in brain
The popular review is written on the basis of this BioMed Central full text, which the authors have kindly released under a Creative Common license. Note that the findings so far (as usual) pertain to rat brains and not human brains. Thanks to fellow stumbler flection for bringing my attention to this article! :)
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- ScienceDaily: You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks -- With The Right Diet...
- Sep 28, 2007 2:49am
 (1 review) dogs, neuroscience, diet, alpha-lipoic-acid, acetyl-l-carnitine http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
- YouTube - How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Damage - Uni. of Calgary
- Sep 23, 2007 12:47am (3 reviews) neuroscience, video, mercury, amalgam, dental-fillings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8nSn5Ez...
- StumbleUpon - alivys web site reviews and blog
- May 24, 2007 10:41am (74 reviews) stumblers, biology, politics, neuroscience, france http://alivy.stumbleupon.com/
- Wonderful animation that explains how neurons work & Biosingularity
- May 22, 2007 2:26pm (1 review) neuroscience, neural, youtube, neurons, nerves http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007...
- Youtube Video That Explains How Neurons Work
Brilliant little gem found via the relatively unknown Biosingularity blog which covers a wide array of interesting subjects. Still, as the title suggests, the focus is somewhat limited to the boundaries of the singularity/transhumanism thought sphere. Definately worth a visit! :)
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- StumbleUpon - Seanachis web site reviews and blog
- Oct 5, 2006 12:10pm (11 reviews) stumblers, cognitive-science, neuroscience, psychedelics http://seanachi.stumbleupon.com/
- || DukeMedNews || Researchers Show How Brain Decodes Complex Smells
- Jun 18, 2006 8:53am (2 reviews) science, neuroscience, self-organisation, smell, olfaction http://dukemednews.org/news/article.php?...
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Olfaction, A Self-Organizing Faculty?
Another branch of science (neurobiology) is pivoting (..) towards an understanding of individual parts of a whole as being being ruled by emergence and self-organisation.. That is to say; researchers at Duke University Medical Center has recently found olfaction (the sense of smell) to be processed in a very limited way by the glomeruli (functional units of the olfactory bulb) which means that the many hundred chemical compounds that make up a given smell is integrated into a larger whole or 'picture' of the smell by other neurons in the brain - thereby to a certain extent mimicking Visual Pattern Recognition. Interesting stuff indeed, thanks to Nutmeg for bringing my attention to the article! :)
- New Scientist News &045; How the mind senses movement
- Feb 12, 2006 1:57pm (1 review) neuroscience, cognition, illusion, movement, new-scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...
- In the minds eye: How the brain makes a whole out of parts
- Jan 19, 2006 12:31pm (6 reviews) neuroscience, emergence, neurons, visual-cortex, shape-fragments http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...
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Visual Pattern Recognition Emergence
So, first of all, thanks to Nutmeg for passing the goods! On to content: this page contains a abstract of a report recently published by Ed Connor from Johns Hopkins University on how neurons in visual cortex somehow, through a process of what I would term neural emergence, within milliseconds, manages to go from perceiving only fragments of a given visual input through a state of shape recognition and finally into providing the brain with more or less full "internal representation" of the object, or scene, in question. Very interesting stuff.. a recommendable pop science book on the general subject would be "Mind Wide Open" by Steven Johnson.
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