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NeuroKüz: October 2010
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Thursday, October 21, 2010. The faithful Christian seizure. When I sit down to use my computer, the first thing I usually do is double-click the icon that opens up an internet browser. I do this so often, that even when I need to use the computer for purposes other than internet-browsing, I mindlessly open up the internet browser anyway. This action is an example of a learned automatism. An unconscious behaviour that is generated as a result of trained associations in previous experiences. This patient a...
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NeuroKüz: July 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. Endocannabinoids and the runner's high. Throughout most of human history, our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to engage in physical activity to obtain food. But nowadays we can drive to the supermarket, briefly walk through its aisles, check-out, then drive back home. This may seem like a luxury, but evolution hasn’t prepared us for such a drastic shift in behaviour. Recently published in Experimental Neurology. It is easy to point to endocannabinoids as a candidate mediator of the...
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NeuroKüz: August 2011
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Sunday, August 14, 2011. As social beings, we’re very good at letting others know when we’ve accidentally stopped being social. When we’ve missed something important in a conversion, we interrupt and ask: “Pardon? 8221; “Excuse me? 8221; “Sorry? 8221; “What? 8221; “ Huh. 8221; Sometimes furrowing the eyebrows a bit can suffice to communicate a sense of confusion. 8221; we bid. In press in NeuroImage. This is pretty neat. It shows that fluctuations in brain activity before. But the neater part of this stu...
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NeuroKüz: November 2010
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Monday, November 1, 2010. Write for your brain. Remember the days when writing by hand was more common than typing? While those days may be gone, the ability to write by hand is indisputably still useful. This is why getting writer's cramp. An often-painful condition that inhibits one's ability to write - can be quite an annoyance. Luckily, there are several forms of intervention that can be effective in alleviating writer's cramp. In a new study. Was stimulated with electromagnetic induction to activate...
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NeuroKüz: Endocannabinoids and the runner's high
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. Endocannabinoids and the runner's high. Throughout most of human history, our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to engage in physical activity to obtain food. But nowadays we can drive to the supermarket, briefly walk through its aisles, check-out, then drive back home. This may seem like a luxury, but evolution hasn’t prepared us for such a drastic shift in behaviour. Recently published in Experimental Neurology. It is easy to point to endocannabinoids as a candidate mediator of the...
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NeuroKüz: Financial incentives and the brain's reward system
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Friday, December 10, 2010. Financial incentives and the brain's reward system. Is a big buzzword. Behavioural economics and the psychology of decision-making have rich histories, but with emerging brain imaging technology, we're now able to peer into some of the intricacies of neural processes as they occur while someone is making an important financial decision. The hope is that studies of brain activity will help guide economic theory and practice. Recently published in PNAS. If the goal of neuroeconom...
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NeuroKüz: Write for your brain
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Monday, November 1, 2010. Write for your brain. Remember the days when writing by hand was more common than typing? While those days may be gone, the ability to write by hand is indisputably still useful. This is why getting writer's cramp. An often-painful condition that inhibits one's ability to write - can be quite an annoyance. Luckily, there are several forms of intervention that can be effective in alleviating writer's cramp. In a new study. Was stimulated with electromagnetic induction to activate...
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NeuroKüz: Inception
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Sunday, July 18, 2010. Is the latest popular film in which a central theme is the questioning of reality. Similar to the Matrix. Dreams are used as a window into this questioning. Such questions are brought up: is the deepest level of dreaming actually reality? Is the first level that is not perceived as a dream actually a dream? Struggle with these sorts of issues throughout the film. These sorts of issues are also reasons to be interested in and study neuroscience. July 19, 2010 at 3:48 AM. Simple temp...
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NeuroKüz: The faithful Christian seizure
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Thursday, October 21, 2010. The faithful Christian seizure. When I sit down to use my computer, the first thing I usually do is double-click the icon that opens up an internet browser. I do this so often, that even when I need to use the computer for purposes other than internet-browsing, I mindlessly open up the internet browser anyway. This action is an example of a learned automatism. An unconscious behaviour that is generated as a result of trained associations in previous experiences. This patient a...
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NeuroKüz: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Book review: "Sum" by neuroscientist David Eagleman. I just read the book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife. By David Eagleman, and what an enlightening read it was. Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, is known for his work on time perception, synesthesia and neurolaw. His literary career is also well underway, as Sum. Combining scientific knowledge with creativity and an inventive imagination, Eagleman suggests that in the afterlife you could find yours...