Brain Definition and 740 Threads

Maybe Gen. Jack D. Ripper was correct. :wink: https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/369470/fluoride-iq-kids-brain-development-toothpaste-water-science-study

I don't post alot in this subforums and don't know what neuroscientists lurk here, but as someone that is trying to understand foundations of law and interactions, and how that is "encoded" in the makeup of matter - trying to understand what happens during the first fractions of a second in the...

A few years ago, I watched a video clip on youtube of the late Professor J. Phillippe Rushton on the Donahue Talk Show in 1990. Professor Rushton was a professor of Psychology of a large university in Canada. The talk show host Phil Donahue (kind of sarcastically, in my opinion) asked J...

More research is confirming that taking handwritten notes improves learning. The discussion of this research appeared in https://www.newsweek.com/neuroscientists-reveal-trick-help-study-1863968.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-first-of-its-kind-signal-was-detected-in-the-human-brain

I approach a traffic light. It is red. I know it is a light. What is happening in my brain to inform me that I am looking at a red light, and not a brightly colored red circle on the canvas of my perceptions of the physical world? If my eyes are moist and I squint, I see radiating red lines...

By a-priori intelligence I mean for example: 1. when a human toddler is born he's born with the intelligence to seek for a breast to feed on. 2. sea turtles - the moment they are born on the beach they know that they must immediately to run into the ocean. 3. baby ducks - the first duck they see...

I recently read that the “functional information content of human memory" as 10^9 bits at midlife based on testing of text and image retention” It makes sense that anything biological would have a limit but memory is such a strange thing that I can’t see how it would be like storing bytes on a...

Hi Bactriophages can cross the blood brain barrier but do all of them cross? They are very diverse.

I have read people with schizophrenia and DID may experience thinking that the world has become less real. Are certain parts of the brain acting up that could be making reality seem less real?

Semi-rant incoming: In both of the two science-fiction novels I’ve touched most recently (“Braking Day” by Adam Oyebanji and “The Forever Watch” by David Ramirez), all the characters having a bunch of implants was simply the default. Now I came across a story named K3+ (by Erasmo Acosta) that...

Assuming that all of my brain states are equally likely to be BBs, and that BBs may exist somewhere outside the event horizon and I won't know about this аnd also the fact that I am either BB or OO, by memorizing 70,000 digits in this way, it is expected that I have increased my chance that I...

Looking at the site https://emcrit.org/ibcc/brain-death/ and similar sites, I see that there are a series of tests of secondary reactions for brain death. Isn't the lack of brain activity sufficient?

good evening gentlemen, for some months I have a problem and maybe it depends on the wind turbines. I live in the countryside and there is a wind farm near my house, and when I am out gardening, when there is strong wind and the blades are spinning fast, I feel strange, as if I fall into a...

Popular article: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-established-a-key-biological-difference-between-psychopaths-and-normal-people/ Research article (paywall): https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.03.006 Cheers, Tom

Trying to build a mixing fluid calculator and cannot for the life of me figure out how to solve for m2 rather then Tf Got an answer to question 1, but bonus question: is there anyway to solve for m2 and m1 if mt is known? IE given a total volume of mixture IE 99ml, at 20 deg. I know T1 is 25...

Here is a study on the sexual differences in development of certain parts of the brain of human adolescents who may become depressed. I am not an expert on this stuff, so comments would be interesting to me...

We've been hearing about brain damage caused by moderate and severe covid. A new study suggests even mild Covid causes brain damage. Pretty scary. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-even-mild-covid-linked-damage-brain-months-infection-rcna18959...

I am studying artificial intelligence for exam and came to a point where I need to revise everything I stuided. It ofc takes more effort in brain than learning the concept watching tutorials and reading blog posts as you need to memorize it(for exam). Any guidance, on how to crack this position...

...And even higher in deceased patients. Popular version: https://www.news10.com/news/covid-19-patients-show-more-signs-of-brain-damage-than-people-with-alzheimers-disease/ Research article: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12556

It's a pre-print from a bunch of researchers at the NIH. https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1139035/v1_covered.pdf?c=1640020576 No wonder Long Covid exists! ?:)

I am studying AI for college exam. https://www.ioenotes.edu.np/ioe-syllabus/ioe-syllabus-artificial-intelligence-ai-378 The thing is here I am totally on my own as I don't have teacher due to some random reason. Even if I had, they were worst so it doesn't matter I have teacher or not. I have...

I am a student and researcher interested in the mind, brain, related biological processes and emerging "mental" processes. I am interested in cognitive computational models, implementing new computational paradigms.

My answer looks like this (translating from my pen+paper notepad): a+b = a+a*b 1+1*4=5 2+2*5=12 3+3*6=21 8+8*11=96 my friend got 40, which I can also see. I am not sure who is correct. Please let me know and let’s put our heads together and have fun.

In a collaboration of several institutions researchers have been able to record the thoughts of a person with a brain stem stroke resulting in anarthria (an inability to articulate speech) by mplanting network of electrodes in the brain and using a machine learning algorithm to decode the...

Here's a nice news piece from Nature summarizing various studies to find the underlying causes behind the neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19. In particular, the article highlights studies suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 can infect astrocytes in the brain, that SARS-CoV-2 can affect blood...

What parts of the brain and/or mind do you use and/or stimulate when doing these activities? If you know. 1. rubix cube? 2.indian finger touching.? 3.playing minecraft.? 4. playing the classic pc game exiled?. 5. playing tetris?. 6 interpreting irrationality or irrational language?. 7.drawing or...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690 Full PDF (32 pages) at: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1.full.pdf

Domesticated cattle (cows or steers) evolved, under domestication, into a variety of different lines (or strains), from aurochs (Bos primigenius,, now extinct) about 10,000 years ago. Science mag news article here. Ana Balcarcel of the University of Zurich and colleagues scanned the skulls of...

Two studies on human brain evolution/development. FIRST A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more...

I’ve read that the human brain capacity has 2.5 petabytes worth of memory storage. I have an excellent memory for details; even super obscure things that happened decades ago. I only have an average IQ but my recall is very good especially when my memory is jogged or if I had read something...

Hello people :oldsmile: I guess that this is quite fantastic question/idea, but perhaps some day it will be possible to do it :oldeyes: So, in brain we have got the cortex and the axons that leave one certain area in cortex and enter another area: cortico-cortical afferents/efferents. Some...

Seems to be partially a reversible auto-immune situation. So far it is in mice and in-vitro for Humans; no Human-use-approved compounds exist. :cry: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/01/study-reveals-immune-driver-of-brain-aging.html

Hi, Does the brain control the physical growth of a human baby? I think if, for some unfortunate reason, the brain is absent, the growth would still take place normally but more like a vegetable. I don't think if the brain is absent, one can even blink the eye or move a finger. But the...

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If the brain in a vat hypothesis is correct, it means that we cannot touch another person or object. My only concern is how touch occurs, if in the real world it is the interaction of atoms (in particular, electrons). Thanks

Will brain-computer interfaces that are hooked up to quantum measurement devices reveal more about quantum mechanics?

This is pretty amazing. Could this point to a future where we all can do this and much more with implanted brain chips?

Hi, forgot to say a thanks for all the info provided in my previous thread to everyone who posted. So what is the answer or answers to this threads question or what works?

This new technology will make monitoring outside of labs possible. It requires a brain implant. Kind of reminds me of the Borg.

Hi, just wanting to know the answer to this. What parts of the brain do playing these games stimulate? What effects do playing these games have on the brain? what brain functions do they improve or strengthen? more specifically I mean the games call to power 1 and/or empire Earth 1. Note that i...

This is a long post with limited amount of physics in it (but it is a physics question, so hopefully it is allowed). I am a scientist but trained as an ecologist (PhD) and despite my long interest in physics, my knowledge of it remains rather rudimentary. Apologies for that, in advance. I am...

This paper was published in Nature: Mammal Brain Connectivity And was described by the University in this press release: https://www.aftau.org/press-release---brain-connectivity---july-20-2020 What interests my is the editorial spin: From the press release: From the Abstract: Cajal and...

Hi, there. I couldn't find much information about this on the net so I came here to ask if anyone here knows as I thought it would be the right forum or maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough. Please not that I don't mean skills but rather what actually works that improves brain functions like...

According to the Many Minds interpretation of quantum mechanics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-minds_interpretation), the distinction between worlds in the Many Worlds interpretation should be made at the level of the mind of an individual observer. I have read that, in this case, each...

Hi, i have a dataset with MRI of patients with a specific disease that affects the brain and another dataset with MRI of healthy patients. I want to create a classifier (using neural networks) to classify if the MRI of a new patient show the presence of the ill or not. First of all, i...

From what I understand dopamine is released when we feel pleasure but how exactly does it interact with the brain? Does it spread to only a small space or a much bigger one? I wonder the same for pain too.

I'm looking for a document (possibly online) which describes the higher cognitive functions (such as thinking, planning, creativity, comprehension, reasoning, etc.) from the neuroscientific point of view. I found only texts of brain anatomy or other describing senso-motoric and metabolic aspects...

On the basis of what brain is classified,like we say on the basis of function the neurons are of 3 types.

Regarding human vision and the retina: Where are these channels produced? To put it simply, is it produced in the eye or in the brain. For example; does light enter the eye, hits the retina and it applies a series of filters to produce these 2 different channels (the parvo and magno) and it...