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Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist | Mail Online
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-565207/Modern-technology-changing-way-brains-...
A Stroke Leads a Brain Scientist to a New Spirituality - NYTimes.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/fashion/25brain.html?_r=1
Memorize Anything / Wired How To's
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http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=memorize_anything;action=display;cate...
Excit
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http://www.pixer.org/excit
Wired.com Readers' Brain-Enhancing Drug Regimens
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2008/04/smart_drugs
Technology Review: A Working Brain Model
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19767
Repressed Memory - A cultural symptom?
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http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/repressed-memory.html
The Real Story on Gay Genes | Sex & Gender | DISCOVER Magazine
Homing in on the science of homosexuality—and sexuality itself.
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/born-gay
He Thinks, She Thinks | Sex & the Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
Men and women, to be sure, “are more alike than they’re different, and even when there are variations, there is a significant overlap between the sexes,”
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/she-thinks
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Men in touch with feminine side
A Cambridge University study found 17% of men have "female brains", while 14% of women have a "masculine brain".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/3522920.stm
UCSF Today - Neuropsychiatrist Explains Why Female Brains Are Different
Brizendine hopes that the book will help women understand why they are feeling a certain way during specific times in their lives, so they can make more cognizant choices and have more co...
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http://pubaffairs.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200704061.html
Study Finds Male And Female Brains Respond Differently To Visual Stimuli
The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images,
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316072953.htm
Femme Mentale
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women's and men's brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/06/MNG3HKAMVO1.DTL
ADHD Kids Can Get Better - TIME
Brain development of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is delayed but otherwise typical, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of ...
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1683069,00.html
LiveScience.com - Your Brain Boots Up Like a Computer
As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere.
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http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060817_brain_boot.html
ABC News: Excerpt: 'The Female Brain'
The Birth of the Female Brain, a chapter from the book
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=2274147&page=1
Don't just stand there, think - The Boston Globe
A growing body of new research suggests [...] that we think not just with our brains, but with our bodies.
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/01/13/dont_just_stand_there_think/?pag...
Pheromone attracts straight women and gay men - being-human - 09 May 2005 - New Scientist
Smelling a male pheromone prompts the same brain activity in homosexual men as it does in heterosexual women, a new study has found.
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn7358.html
Clue to sexual attraction found in lesbian brain - sex - 08 May 2006 - New Scientist
The homosexual women showed similar brain activity to heterosexual men when they inhaled certain chemicals, which may be pheromones, the researchers say.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9125-clue-to-sexual-attraction-found-in-lesbian-brain....
'Spectrum of empathy' found in the brain - being-human - 18 September 2006 - New Scientist
Ever wondered how some people can “put themselves into another person's shoes” and some people cannot? Our ability to empathise with others seems to depend on the action of "mirror ne...
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10108&feedId=online-news_rss20
Mission to build a simulated brain begins - info-tech - 06 June 2005 - New Scientist
The hope is that the virtual brain will help shed light on some aspects of human cognition, such as perception, memory and perhaps even consciousness.a
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7470
IBM Blue Brain project with EPFL to map the brain; supercomputer neuron charting, neocortex
The Blue Brain Project will run simulations of the brain's neurons to tease out their secrets. The project uses IBM's latest installation of BlueGene/L supercomputer running on Linux to r...
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http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/ibm-blue-brain-project.asp
IBM starts work on computer to rival the human brain - Times Online
The computers, which will be built by 2004, will lack the consciousness, intellect and capacity for thought of a brain, but will be equivalent in calculating speed and power.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article833106.ece
Prenatal Testosterone in Mind - The MIT Press
The amniotic fluid provides a window into the child's past -- a chemical record of that child's time in the womb -- that allows informed prediction about the child's future brain, mind, a...
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10834
They just can't help it | Research | EducationGuardian.co.uk
How much eye contact children make is in part determined by a biological factor: prenatal testosterone. This has been demonstrated by measuring this hormone in amniotic fluid.
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,938022,00.html
EQ SQ theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon Baron-Cohen [...] hypothesizes that "the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQ_SQ_theory
Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks
Future psychiatric research and clinical treatments for men and women should involve gender specific focuses to ensure that the sexes are studied separately, which he believes has not bee...
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http://www.physorg.com/news8634.html
Brain fitness seen as hot industry of the future | Technology | Reuters
Just as baby boomers' desire to delay cardiovascular and other diseases fueled the health club boom, their desire to delay dementia is expected to keep the market for brain stimulation pr...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1218668920080312?feedType=RSS&feedName=te...
Neurofeedback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neurofeedback (NFB), also called neurotherapy, neurobiofeedback or EEG biofeedback (EEGBF) is a therapy technique that presents the user with realtime feedback on brainwave activity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofeedback
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence.
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http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/03/why_the_brain_is_not_like_a_co.php
Brains On Purpose™: A key to cross-cultural conflict resolution: Around the world in almost 80 (0,000,000) brains
Cultures sculpt differently and thus people raised in different cultures will have different ways of learning, thinking, deciding and decoding.
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http://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2008/02/cross-cultural.html
BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm
Futurism: The Pros and Cons of a Google Brain Implant
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http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant
Memory - Aging - Medicine & Health - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/health/11brod.html?pagewanted=1
Carl Zimmer's Dissection: Your Brain Is a Mess, but It Knows How to Make Fixes
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http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/commentary/dissection/2008/04/dissection_0404
Libere su hemisferio derecho
Las personas capaces de dibujar con exactitud lo que están viendo utilizan de preferencia el hemisferio derecho. La mayor parte de los humanos, en cambio, esclavizados por el otro hemisf...
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http://manuelgross.bligoo.com/content/view/67402/Libere_su_hemisferio_derecho.html
Brainman - Google Video
Daniel T. is a "super brain." He can calculate numbers to hundreds of decimal points in seconds and learn new languages in a week. Through ... all » a series of real world
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2598363071375453449&q=Brainman