Results for “Obama BRAIN Initiative”

common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said...

between lower-level physical or homeostatic challenges and higher-level psychological and social stressors. Basic homeostatic reflexes, reflexes that keep in balance various critical bodily processes such as blood pressure, body temperature, and blood sugar, are largely hard-wire...

hyperbolic brain flow is made up of three decomposable

making us killophilic in a variety of situations. Our brain’s unique

we currently lack understanding of how the brain gives rise

wrapping the nerves and the neurons in our brain.

author most recently of The Tell-Tale Brain.

a network of brain areas that releases dopamine in most invertebrates and

but a more important designation defines the two stages in terms of brain waves

overall mind-state” is replaced with ""brain-state"")

the brain circuits that generate this psychology

which are located in the brain and in other organs

recognizing that they harbored significant brain damage and as a result

the human brain was remodeled to allow promiscuous connections between previously

forewarning forebrain from automatic and stereotyped hind brain