Neuroscience
An interesting feature article from the front page of yesterday's New York Times:
After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self
By BENEDICT CAREY
The New York Times
Published: August 9, 2009
"Scientists are investigating delusions caused by brain trauma for clues to one of the most confounding problems in brain science: identity."
Read the full article
- Psychosurgery, Redux
Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Hope and Risk By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: November 27, 2009 "Hundreds have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, even obesity." Read the article...
- Sleep, Dreams, And Cognitive Function
A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: November 10, 2009 "A new theory suggests that dreams are a warm-up for the day ahead." Read the article...
- Cognition: Blink, Military Style
In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable Assets By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times 28 July 2009 U.S. soldiers are at the center of an effort to understand how it is that some people’s brains can sense danger and act on it before others’ do. Read...
- The Insula Is Making Headlines!
From a report in The New York Times about the neuroscience of smoking: Scientists Tie Part of Brain to Urge to Smoke By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: January 25, 2007 [snip] The insula, for years a wallflower of brain anatomy, has emerged...
- Brain Injuries Still Mysterious, But Research Is Building
A recent story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that brain injury researchers are lifting the veil on brain injury and what they're seeing is already changing the response to brain injury in America, said Douglas Smith, MD, professor of neurosurgery,...
Neuroscience
Capgras Syndrome and Traumatic Brain Injury
An interesting feature article from the front page of yesterday's New York Times:
After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self
By BENEDICT CAREY
The New York Times
Published: August 9, 2009
"Scientists are investigating delusions caused by brain trauma for clues to one of the most confounding problems in brain science: identity."
Read the full article
- Psychosurgery, Redux
Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Hope and Risk By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: November 27, 2009 "Hundreds have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, even obesity." Read the article...
- Sleep, Dreams, And Cognitive Function
A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: November 10, 2009 "A new theory suggests that dreams are a warm-up for the day ahead." Read the article...
- Cognition: Blink, Military Style
In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable Assets By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times 28 July 2009 U.S. soldiers are at the center of an effort to understand how it is that some people’s brains can sense danger and act on it before others’ do. Read...
- The Insula Is Making Headlines!
From a report in The New York Times about the neuroscience of smoking: Scientists Tie Part of Brain to Urge to Smoke By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: January 25, 2007 [snip] The insula, for years a wallflower of brain anatomy, has emerged...
- Brain Injuries Still Mysterious, But Research Is Building
A recent story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that brain injury researchers are lifting the veil on brain injury and what they're seeing is already changing the response to brain injury in America, said Douglas Smith, MD, professor of neurosurgery,...