 New York Times: Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention The NY Times reports that EEG Biofeedback is gaining greater acceptance, applied to ADD/ADHD, autism, increasing attention, focusing the aging brain... |
Moral judgments can be altered: Neuroscientists influence people's moral judgments by disrupting specific brain region Previous studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people's intentions, thoughts and beliefs. In the new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp. They found that the subjects' ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding |
Bioethical Devils and Neuroscientific Details; Video
In the late 1990s, treatments like Prozac and research on the human genome project appeared to usher in a new human reality with associated bioethical dilemmas. Are bioethicists as likely to be co-opted into the marketing of the new neuroscience and its treatments as they were into the marketing of the SSRIs?
Contrasting current neuroimaging with quantitative electroencephalography, recent deep brain stimulation treatments... |
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'My Second Birth - 'Discovering Life in Vegetative Patients
For over 20 years, doctors thought Rom Houben was brain dead. But then, neurologist Steven Laureys discovered that the Belgian was very much awake. Experts say that up to 40 percent of those thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are, in fact, quite conscious. |
Textbook of Neurofeedback, EEG Biofeedback, qEEG and Brain Self Regulation
e-book by Rob Kall and Joe Kamiya with 26 chapters |
Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death, May Explain Near Death EXperiences
study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals.
...doctors theorize that the brain surges may be tied to widely reported near-death experiences which typically involve spiritual or religious attributes. |
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Brains of poor and rich kids vary
dramatic difference in the response of the prefrontal cortex in those from low socioeconomic environments that was similar, the researchers said, to the response of people who have had a portion of their frontal lobe destroyed by a stroke. |
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