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Who You Are

New research shows that personality traits are mirrored by changes in our brains. These changes define who we are. To change your personality you need to reconfigure your brain! ...Full Article

HUMAN THOUGHT CAN VOLUNTARILY CONTROL NEURONS IN BRAIN

Neuroscience research involving epileptic patients with brain electrodes surgically implanted in their medial temporal lobes shows that patients learned to consciously control individual neurons deep in the brain with ...Full Article

How the Brain Makes Memories: Rhythmically

The brain learns through changes in the strength of its synapses — the connections between neurons — in response to stimuli. Now, in a discovery that challenges conventional wisdom ...Full Article

Beauty of the Brain

Is the human brain, with all its problem-solving prowess and creative ability, powerful enough to understand itself? Nothing in the known universe (with the exception of the universe itself) ...Full Article

Meet Your Auto-Brain

Did you know that approximately 95% of what you think and do happens without you even thinking about it? Here is an example of how your auto-brain works – ...Full Article

Fear and pleasure in the amygdala

Here is a heads up for a recent studydemonstrating – again – that the amygdala is not merely a “fear centre” in the brain. I have previously blogged about the ...Full Article

A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects

The recent news about smoking was sensational: some people with damage to a prune-size slab of brain tissue called the insula were able to give up cigarettes instantly. Suppose scientists could ...Full Article

Heart and Brain

Before exploring the brains unique role in connecting a human being to what many call God, it is essential to honor new scientific information about the human heart that ...Full Article

Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being

As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining ...Full Article

Supercomputer Explores Biochemical Landscape To Find Memory Switches

Switches are a part of daily life, from snoozing your alarm, turning on the coffee maker, firing up your car engine, and so on until we turn off the ...Full Article