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cartoon life: The state of my brain 5
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Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: When your imaginary friend is a jerk
Why do our brains do this? Or is it just me and The Oatmeal? Alltop has tons of imaginary friends,and they’re all super!
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Time Will Merge What Liberals & NDPers Can’t
Up upon an isolated mountain top, in a dark and long forgotten manor, underneath thunderous clouds, a large titanic body of gears and motors emblazoned in red stands motionless. The large lifeless liberal leviathan, composed of parts gathered from across the land and across time is all but complete except
Continue readingThings Are Good: Music Therapy Helps Brain Damaged Patients
Music therapy can help people who have severe brain damage regain control of their brain and heal faster. This is really nifty! But how does music find a pathway inside a damaged brain that regular speech can’t negotiate? According to Morrow, it has to do with the parts of the
Continue readingcartoon life: Suggestions of something real
Derya Unutmaz originally shared this post on Google+ Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds? Mute the volume until Dennett is onscreen. Filed
Continue readingThings Are Good: New Way to Examine Consciousness in Comatose Patients
There are a lot of ethical issues about what to do with a person in a vegetative state in a hospital, and sometimes pulling the plug (so to speak) isn’t the best course of action. Thanks to some smart researchers we can now tell which patients are still thinking and which patients have no activity […]
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: If Autism Is A Brain Disorder, Surely We Need To Look At The Brain?
Dr. Aditi Shankardass: It it is a brain disorder, surely we need to look at the brain!
Autism is one of the developmental disorders described as a brain based disorder in the presentation by Dr. Aditi Shankardass in which she makes the observatio…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: High Functioning Autism fMRI Brain Scan Study Misrepresented to the Public
“research in ASD has tended to use overwhelmingly White, middle to upper middle class samples, and has often excluded children with multiple disabilities and/or severe to profound intellectual disabilities”. [underlining added – H…
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