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Posts with the tag « neuroscience » :

🔗 Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits

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In this Review, we describe the clinical features and current treatments for PTSD, examine the neurobiology of symptom domains, highlight genomic advances and discuss translational approaches to understanding mechanisms and identifying new treatments and interventions for this devastating syndrome.

🔗 Neuronal Dynamics

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What happens in our brain when we make a decision? What triggers a neuron to send out a signal? What is the neural code? This textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the fields of computational and theoretical neuroscience.

🔗 Lecture library of 2000+ videos on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy.

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2000 videos, with an average length of 45 minutes per video, totaling some 700gbs.

Everything is organized by Discipline->Subfield->individual-> course or lecture series. It's mostly non-introductory content.

The psychology section is far and away the most substantive of the three fields, with an emphasis on Psychodynamics, Neuropsychoanalysis, Rogerian/person-centered approaches, and Social Psychology.

The Neuroscience section has a modest amount of anatomy, and leans towards perception, affective neuroscience, and other such frivolity.

The philosophy section is a basic overview with a slight bent towards cognition, and is perfect for winning internet arguments (or whatever it is that philosophy is supposed to be for)

🔗 Olimex: OpenEEG

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The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom.

🔗 TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Ideas of the century: neurotrash (41/50)

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In one area, however, philosophers have taken a great interest in fashionable nonsense and in many cases have also fallen for it. I refer to what the philosopher, poet and neurologist Raymond Tallis calls “neurotrash”. By this he means the rewriting of the human person as the human brain, and using the resulting pseudoscience as a purported answer to some philosophical problem – as in Libet on free will, Zeki on aesthetic taste, Ramachandran on self-knowledge and “mirror neurons”, Joshua Greene on moral reasoning, and a thousand similar attempts to reduce the I to the fMRI.

🔗 Genealogy of the “Grandmother Cell”

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A “grandmother cell” is a hypothetical neuron that responds only to a highly complex, specific, and meaningful stimulus, such as the image of one’s grandmother. This essay discusses the origin, influence, and current status of these terms and of the alternative view that complex stimuli are represented by the pattern of firing across ensembles of neurons.