Archive for Brain
A brainy future
Posted by: | CommentsWhat this scientist on the video talk about seems to be a bit naive. He does talk about something called neuro-economy, that thesis is naively based on the idea that stock market aren’t manipulated and crisis aren’t enginered. May be, it might work in some context like regular day-trading but in larger context, I do not put a lot of faith in what this guy says.
Dr. Vijendra Singh on brain state conditioning
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Vijendra K. Singh Ph.D. is introduced by Lee Gerdes of Brain State Technologies and discusses his research plans for Brain State Conditioning.
The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs
Posted by: | CommentsFound via The New Yorker
…….Alex recalled one week during his junior year when he had four term papers due. Minutes after waking on Monday morning, around seven-thirty, he swallowed some “immediate release” Adderall. The drug, along with a steady stream of caffeine, helped him to concentrate during classes and meetings, but he noticed some odd effects; at a morning tutorial, he explained to me in an e-mail, “I alternated between speaking too quickly and thoroughly on some subjects and feeling awkwardly quiet during other points of the discussion.” Lunch was a blur: “It’s always hard to eat much when on Adderall.” That afternoon, he went to the library, where he spent “too much time researching a paper rather than actually writing it—a problem, I can assure you, that is common to all intellectually curious students on stimulants.”
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Charles Tart on Altered States of Consciousness
Posted by: | CommentsFascinating video with Charles Tart.
In this segment from the Shift in Action website, Charles Tart discusses his personal experience and observation of disciplined use of psychedelics to explore altered states of consciousness.
Charles Tart recently authored a book called The End Of Materialism about the reductionist approach of “modern” science.
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Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG
Posted by: | CommentsFound via Slashdot
‘In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message, ‘using EEG to send tweet,’ demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which “locked-in” patients can couple brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools. A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally.’ A brief rundown of the system: Users focus on a monitor displaying a keyboard; the interface measures electrical impulses in the brain to print the chosen letters one by one. Wilson compares the learning curve to texting, calling it ‘kind of a slow process at first.’ But even practice doesn’t bring it quite up to texting speed: ‘I’ve seen people do up to eight characters per minute,’ says Wilson. See video of the system in action (Quicktime, mov file).
