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The autistic brain Temple Grandin Slate 1 may 2013 Book extract.""In 1947, the diagnosis of autism was only four years old.

At the hospital, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans revealed plaques peppered throughout Turk's brain and spine.

or slowed the spread of telltale brain and spine lesions.""I've always had a research interest so

At the start of the trial, MRI scans showed patients had an average of 6. 6 active lesions oe scars on the protective layer around nerve cells that disrupt the transmission of electrical messages in the brain and spinal cord.

If that's so, Bialek and colleagues think the brain might exploit this fact to aid visual perception by filtering out"noise Â that occurs naturally on the retina.

If the brain were to attune groups of neurons to these privileged"patches Â, then it would be easier to distinguish two genuinely different images (made up of the"special Â patches) from two versions of the same image corrupted by random noise

Most efforts to establish the root of risky decisions made by human teenagers focus on the underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for mental processes like long-term planning and judgement.

Fearing that something may have misfired in his own brain Harris enlisted the opinion of a neuroimaging expert to interpret Dr Alexander's account of his experience.

Some part of his brain had awakened. Conventional wisdom says that what happened to Bridgeman is impossible.

two-dimensional world did Bridgeman's brain spontaneously begin to process 3d images? Altered images For centuries, scientists have known that two eyes are better than one.

the differences between the two images allow the brain to generate a sensation of depth.

Somehow the brain fuses these images automatically, and it's only in the last few decades that we have begun to understand the nerve signals underlying this stereovision.

and brain that respond to only one type of signal, for example, vertical or horizontal lines.

The farther this signal travels into the brain, the more complex it becomes. Neuroscientists have found cells in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes vision,

whose sole job is to respond to differences in the position of the images transmitted from each eye to the brain.

These cells, called binocular neurons, are thought to be the key to seeing in three dimensions.

According to the Nobel prize-winning research from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the 1960s, the brain may only have a short window of opportunity in

if the developing brain isn't exposed to overlapping images from the two eyes, it will never form the connections it needs to process a three dimensional scene,

and certainly the most sensitive strategy that the brain has for acquiring information about depth,

This difference in the apparent motion of objects tells the brain how far away each one is from us.

"Your brain has to make a choice, Â says Leonard Press, a vision therapist in Fair Lawn, New jersey."

All of which lends further evidence to the idea that the brain is more malleable than scientists first believed."

#15 Most Bizarre Brain Experiments If the brain is a supercomputer these would be its hacks.

it might just succeed 1. Scientists Hope To Record Our Dreams After Successful Experiments Using Brain Implants A group of scientists,

known as the Caltech team, can attach electrodes to your brain that lets you move a mouse cursor with your thoughts.

the day will come when even your dreams arent safe from spying eyes. http://foreign. peacefmonline. com/tech/201010/98495. php 2. Hyperscanning Brain Experiment:

along with brain scanning fmri machines, to literally measure and quantify trust levels each player has for the other as the game progresses. http://www. networkworld. com/news/2008/082208-one-man-it-shop-side. html 3. Experiment on brain cells

and these so-called precursory cells are native to the bird brain. The entire process exists only

so the birds can learn new songs. http://www. news. harvard. edu/gazette/1998/04. 16/Experimentsrais. html 4. Using immature cells from the brains of mammals to replace dead

one day we might even be able to rebuild the entire brain from scratch. http://www. news. harvard. edu/gazette/1998/04. 16/Experimentsrais. html 5. The Suda Experiment:

ECG Recording Using Perfused Cat Brains and Glycerol Professor Isamu Suda, of Kobe University in Japan, is renowned for devising a cryonics methodology right out of Tales from the Crypt.

Basically, the Suda technique involves deep freezing a live cat brain and then thawing it back out.

electrical brain waves can be detected (via EEG). This can either mean that the brain isnt killed by the deep freeze

(which is a common criticism of cryonics) or that Suda is a lunatic (which is a common criticism of professors).

6. Brain Experiment: Drinking Like crazy to Activate Hangover Brain Molecule This is a strange study: scientists ran an experiment b y giving the C. elegans worm small doses of alcohol to track the affects of withdrawal.

They learned no surprise here hat giving the worms more alcohol eased withdrawal symptoms. They also learned with a much bigger surprise that theres an actual oehangover molecule that can be quantified in the recovering brain http://www. stumbleupon. com/su/2k89pc/www. livescience. com/culture/hangover

-brain-molecule-100509. html http://ezinearticles. com/?/Alcohols-Effects-in-the-Brain&id=1319880 7. Scientists create Mice with Human brain Cells Fred Gage

and is crew of researcher at the Salk Institute in San diego are trying to create a real-life Splinter.

citing issue with the resulting creature being oetoo human. http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/10441350/ns/health-cloning and stem cells 8. Robot powered by rats brain in bizarre British experiment

On the other hand, robots controlled by rat brains now thats an abomination if Ive ever heard of one.

which consist of attaching a chunk of rat brain to a robot to see if it moves The creepy part is that it does move.

as if it was an animal being trained. http://www. dailymail. co. uk/sciencetech/article-1044909/Robot-powered-rats-brain-bizarre-British-experiment. html#ixzz16mpvastz 9. Brain

Dissecting and Cementing Marmosets Brains Scientists crack open the marmosets scull, vacuum out swaths of brain tissue to cause visual blind spots,

since human brains and marmoset brains are completely different. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Cambridge university primates http://www. humanecharities. org. au/experiments/marmosets. html 11.

Brain Experiment Using Salamanders: The Spemann-Mangold Experiments German scientist Hans Spemann and Ph d candidate Hilde Mangold take the proverbial cake for strange brain experiments.

In their momentous study, the brain of a live salamander was extracted and divided into sections.

The remainder as dropped back into the still-living salamander body and the salamander would jump up

and injecting parts of one half into the other just to see what would happen. http://ts-si. org/biology/3305-brain-before-body-the-spemann-mangold-experiments 12.

Brain Preference Experiment Using Coke and Pepsi If you adamantly prefer Coke, then youve been brainwashed

Whats interesting is the Coke label activated parts of the brain (memory, self-image and cultural knowledge) that the Pepsi label didnt. http://www. hnl. bcm. tmc. edu

How Brain Records Memories The hippocampus is an obscure section of the brain where memories are recorded,

The system works by scanning the brain as each subject navigates a simulated reality; the resultant data reveals exactly where the subject was simulated in the reality at any given time. http://www. guardian co uk/science/2009/mar 12/mind-reading-brain-scans-memories http://www. world-science. net

/othernews/090313 fmri. htm http://www. physorg. com/news156084067. html 14. Thomas Edisons Magnetic brain experiment using a Young Boy Thomas Edison picked a boy off the street

and ran electromagnetic fluctuations directly through is brain to research effects. This was completely normal and ethical behavior to Edison.

I wont comment on that but I will say that we should be glad Edison didnt use his famous oe10,

000 tries to find 1 solution approach he used on the light bulb. http://xenophilius. wordpress. com/2010/09/29/thomas-edisons-magnetic-brain-experiment/15.

The Split Brain Experiments Roger Sperry is the godfather of brain experiments. Back in the 60s Sperry figure out that the right half of the brain does very different things than the left side.

In a nutshell, the left hemisphere is analytical/rational and the right hemisphere is conceptual/emotional. Sperry gave us this insight through experimentation,

and won a Nobel prize in the process. http://nobelprize. org/educational/medicine/split-brain/background. html LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati b

disease of knowledge and the brain which makes adults become babies. But South koreas low birth rate will make family caregiving tougher. oei feel

like the brain, he said, letting it crash down. Now, oethe brain is destroyed. oedementia is very bad for you,

so protect your brain, he said, with exercise, oenot drinking too much sugar, and saying, oe Daddy, dont drink so much because its not good for dementia.

At a Dementia March outside the World cup Soccer Stadium children carried signs promoting Dr. Yangs Mapo district center:

oemake the Brain Smile! and oehow is Your Memory? Free diagnosis center in Mapo. The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.

and my brain is processing it, but I cannot say it out loud, he said about the questions. oehow can my brilliant brain remember everything?

Jeez, its so headachy. Checking his ability to categorize items, Dr. Yang asked, oewhat do you call dog and tiger?

He suggested that Mr. Cha get a government-subsidized brain M. R i. to confirm the diagnosis,

gesturing toward his brain, oethat somethings wrong with this, just a little bit. Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients,

Although Cox has wracked her brain for years trying to come up with a good skin care use for leftover turkey,

The researchers uncovered extensive molecular differences in the brains of worker bees and queen bees which develop along very different paths when put on different diets.

which genes are to be fine-tuned in the brains of workers and queens to produce their extraordinarily different behaviors.

more than 550 genes are marked differentially between the brain of the queen and the brain of the worker,

and author of oeibrain, said Internet use activated more parts of the brain than reading a book did.

it goes right to your brain. With a couple of exceptions Mr. Bellingham among them interviewing pot sellers is unlike interviewing anyone else in business.

Well, if youre Roald Dahl, you team up with a couple of other guys to invent a brain shunt to ease the pain.

severely injuring the infant and causing water to pool on his brain. The current device that helped drain the fluid was unreliable;

or maybe an evil brain, but its actually a fungus that attacks corn. U s. farmers call it oecorn smut

Standing before a class of college seniors, her brain sometimes stalls while in a state better suited to her kids schools.

rather than her customary oeladies and gentlemen. oethe brain just cant toggle back and forth indefinitely, says Julie Morgenstern, a New york corporate productivity consultant and author.

To ward off that kind of brain freeze Ms. Morgenstern says mini-shifters need to be organized oehyper,

even when flying through optical illusions created in a lab. How theyre able to do this, with brains smaller than a peppercorn,

PEAS cohort, AEA, is a neurotransmitter that acts on the brain in a similar fashion to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC),

Power of 10 Interface-The distance between information and our brain is getting shorter. Twenty years ago if you had access to a large information base,

The next iteration of our information-to-brain interface will give us the power to find answers in as little as 10 seconds.

Brain Quants Where the stock market manipulators of the past meet the brain manipulators of the future to usurp control of Madison avenue. 35.

With a constantly surging trend line towards creating a seamless and invisible interface between the information world and our brains,

#Most women are experts at knowing how to activate the monkey-part of the male brain.

Regular exercise lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, in the brain. Warning: Going cold turkey is one of the least successful ways of quitting. 3. ACCIDENTS Why youre at risk:

and so are our brains Scientists blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanization. Man has conquered Everest and landed on the Moon,

our brains are also smaller. The findings reverse perceived wisdom that humans have grown taller and larger

However, the rise of agriculture does not explain why brains are also shrinking. The male brain of 20,000 years ago measured 1, 500 cubic centimetres.

Modern mans brain averages just 1, 350 cubic cm#a decrease equivalent to the size of a tennis ball.

The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion. It doesnt mean we are less intelligent#rather we have learnt to make the best use of our resources.

Dr Lahr said: Over evolutionary time there would have been huge energy savings in making the brain smaller

but more efficient#as we see today with computer processors. Robert Foley, a Cambridge university professor of human evolution, said:

For this reason, the first step in this journey will be to build a community of like-minded free-thinkers to establish a fledgling brain-trust for the work that follows.

Researchers have found that labelling something organic tricks the brain into thinking it is better tasting

take over its brain, and then kill the insect once it moves to a location ideal for the fungi to grow

Lodged in a zombie ants brain, the fungi species direct#the dying ants to anchor themselves to leaves or other stable places,

what cannot be done with people#kill some of the monkeys to examine their brains and pancreases.

and killed so their brains could be dissected. She also questioned the need to study fat monkeys:

#But he said the study found the diet induced chemical changes in the brains of fetuses that might be responsible for the problems in the offspring.

Successfully completing the tasks relies on the prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain larger in humans than other animals, New Scientist reported.

Some things are hardwired just genetically into the male brain...Beware of the bark side of the force...

. While your body is making this transition the brain can misinterpret the sudden relaxation of the muscles

fatigue and discomfort because the brain is confused more easily. Either way, it is a normal part of the sleep process

Scientists blame something they refer to as earworms#which create a cognitive itch#that makes the brain to fill in the gaps in a songs rhythm.

Songs trigger activity in the auditory cortex of the brain, and studies have found that the part of the auditory cortex that is active

your brain becomes desensitized to the euphoria of junk food and sugar and needs more and more of it.

Every year IBM polls its R&d brain trust about what technologies that may have been at the hairy edge before

A centralized computer the workers call The Brain dictates their speed. Managers know exactly what the workers do, to the precise minute.

but I think purposeful thinking necessitates a highly developed brain and autonoetic, or at least noetic, consciousness.

Just as a plant can t suffer subjective pain in the absence of a brain, I also don t think that it thinks. 7. Do you see any analogy between what plants do and

or stored only in the brain. The brain is dominant in higher-order processing in more complex animals,

but not in simple ones. Different parts of the plant communicate with each other, exchanging information on cellular, physiological and environmental states.

the entire plant is analogous to the brain. But while plants don t have neurons, plants both produce and are affected by neuroactive chemicals!

Darwin, one of the great plant researchers, proposed what has become known as the root-brain#hypothesis. Darwin proposed that the tip of the root, the part that we call the meristem,

acts like the brain does in lower animals, receiving sensory input and directing movement. Several modern-day research groups are following up on this line of research.

This seems to gum up the brain s cognitive processes#a phenomenon known as delayed auditory feedback #and can painlessly render the person unable to speak.

say, schizophrenia, Parkinson s, depression or Alzheimer s in the brain, even though there may be no obvious symptoms.#

and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device,

and will transmit brain scans directly to smartphones and tablet computers. We re using sleep, #Low says,

as the gateway to the brain.##25. A Blood test for Depression This year, Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern s Feinberg School of medicine, published a paper that identified molecules in the blood that correlated to major depression in a small group of teenagers.

It ll be less of a hammer on the brain.##Photo credit: Random Thoughts Via New york times Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati E

and it turns out that thyroid hormones are responsible for all kinds of important functions in our body, from neuro development in our brain to temperature and metabolism,

Autism is attributed to atypical brain development and characterized by a group of symptoms that include problems with socialization, communication and behavior.

such as that vascular problems and an overabundance of inflammatory proteins in obesity, could be crucial in a baby s brain development.

The brains of these novelty-seeking bees exhibit distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans,

They used whole-genome microarray analysis to look for differences in the activity of thousands of genes in the brains of scouts and non-scouts.

And a lot of the thinking has to do with the relationship between how the (brain s) reward system is engaged in response to some experience.#

#The researchers found thousands of distinct differences in gene activity in the brains of scouting and non-scouting bees.

To test whether the changes in brain signaling caused the novelty-seeking, the researchers subjected groups of bees to treatments that would increase

or inhibit these chemicals in the brain. Two treatments (with glutamate and octopamine) increased scouting in bees that had scouted not before.

when humans find a member of the opposite sex attractive their brains are telling them they are an appropriate mate.

and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you re having a good idea but it s just eggs hatching.#

We ll be able to do that in the 2030s with nanobots traveling noninvasively into the brain through the capillaries

modelled on those in the brain. As he drove around Pittsburgh, they kept track of his driving decisions,

of brain over brawn. But less for Stanford than for the field as a whole. Five cars finished the hundred-and-thirty-two-mile course;

but with the brains, time, energy and passion to ride herd on a moonshot-class mission. Someone, maybe, like Daryl Oster.

along with our own brains. 1.)Most diamonds aren formed t from compressed coal. Rather they are compressed

There is ample evidence that the brain continues to produce new cells in at least a few brain regions well into adulthood, through a process called neurogenesis.

) People don t use#oejust 10%#of their brains. We use the entire brain for different processes at different times.

We couldn t survive if we scooped out 90%of it. SOURCE: Scientific American. 26.)

In fact, the brain is highly malleable and there are steps that you can take in order to increase your IQ.

At the very least, you can improve the functioning of your brain, and you can adopt learning strategies that will improve your ability to acquire,

#that if we were to design an almost perfect anti-brain environment, it would look like our current classrooms and work cubicles.

Because a protein called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) which builds and nourishes the infrastructure of cell circuitry in the brain-is created when you re physically active.

Referring to BDNF as a brain fertilizer, Dr. Medina equates a group of kids sitting around in a classroom listening to a lecture,

or an employee sitting in a cramped cubicle typing away at his computer, with a light bulb that is turned off.

By breathing deeply through the nose you can improve the functioning of your brain immediately.

therefore, in the brain. 3. Keep a Journal. Catharine M. Cox, author of#oeearly Mental Traits of Three hundred Geniuses#,studied the habits of 300 geniuses#such as Isaac newton, Einstein,

You can think of a journal or a notebook as an extension of your brain. Keeping a journal doesn t just allow you to record your ideas;

Brain Gym is a program of simple exercises, developed over a 25 year period by a remedial educational specialist, Dr. Paul Dennison.

Brain Gym exercises can help with things such as: Comprehension Concentration Abstract Thinking Memory Mental Fatigue Completing tasks One brain gym exercise is called#oebrain Buttons

#and involves doing the following: Take one hand and place it so that there s as much space as possible between the thumb and the index finger.

This exercise will improve blood flow to the brain and will essentially turn it#oeon#.

#Go here to find two more simple brain gym exercises (Cross Crawl, #and Hook ups#).#)9. Meditate.

Neuropsychologists now say that meditation can alter brain structure. MRI scans of long-term meditators have shown greater activity in the brain circuits involved in paying attention.

When disturbing noises were played to a group of meditators undergoing an MRI scan, they had relatively little effect on the brain areas involved in emotion

and decision-making as compared to non-meditators or less experienced meditators. 10. Stay away from Sugar. Any simple carbohydratessuch as pasta, sugars, white bread and potato chipscan make you tired and lethargic.

an understanding of the word becomes even more firmly implanted in his brain. This also applies to adults.

Conclusion Increasing your brain power will allow you to live your best life. Use the techniques described above to help you increase your IQ,

improve the functioning of your brain, improve your learning ability, and live up to your IQ s potential.

The study, conducted by scientists with UCLA s Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA

or microbiota, in the gut can affect the brain carries significant implications for future research that could point the way toward dietary

#oeour findings indicate that some of the contents of yogurt may actually change the way our brain responds to the environment.

#Researchers have known that the brain sends signals to the gut, which is why stress and other emotions can contribute to gastrointestinal symptoms.

#oeour study shows that the gut-brain connection is a two-way street.####The small study involved 36 women between the ages of 18 and 55.

and after the four-week study period looked at the women s brains in a state of rest and in response to an emotion-recognition task in

Further, in response to the task, these women had a decrease in the engagement of a widespread network in the brain that includes emotion-,cognition-and sensory-related areas.

During the resting brain scan, the women consuming probiotics showed greater connectivity between a key brainstem region known as the periaqueductal grey and cognition-associated areas of the prefrontal cortex.

The researchers were surprised to find that the brain effects could be seen in many areas, including those involved in sensory processing

The knowledge that signals are sent from the intestine to the brain and that they can be modulated by a dietary change is likely to lead to an expansion of research aimed at finding new strategies to prevent

#The UCLA researchers are seeking to pinpoint particular chemicals produced by gut bacteria that may be triggering the signals to the brain.

which correlate with changes in brain response. Meanwhile, Mayer notes that other researchers are studying the potential benefits of certain probiotics in yogurts on mood symptoms such as anxiety.

By demonstrating the brain effects of probiotics the study also raises the question of whether repeated courses of antibiotics can affect the brain,

as some have speculated. Antibiotics are used extensively in neonatal intensive care units and in childhood respiratory tract infections, and such suppression of the normal microbiota may have longterm consequences on brain development.

Finally, as the complexity of the gut flora and its effect on the brain is understood better,

researchers may find ways to manipulate the intestinal contents to treat chronic pain conditions or other brain related diseases, including, potentially, Parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s disease and autism.

Answers will be easier to come by in the near future as the declining cost of profiling a person s microbiota renders such tests more routine