The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood

VIEWED superficially, the part of youth that the psychologist Jean Piaget called middle childhood looks tame and uneventful, a quiet patch of road on the otherwise hairpin highway to adulthood.

COMPUTING: IBM gets closer to making a computer into a brain

By moving from the clock driven model of current computing, to one more like the synapse based  human brain, IBM is moving toward  far more "intelligent," computing.

NEUROSCIENCE: Seeking, wanting mechanisms linked to neurotransmitters

An explanation of the Seeking and Wanting mechanisms as linked to Dopamine vs, opioids. Important implications for Education

MEDICINE: Back from Brain Dead

Ambien and other meds can sometimes move vegetative patients to improved levels of consciousness.

NEUROSCIENCE: The ghost in our brains

Can Neuroscience explain our obsession with the paranormal?

PSYCHOLOGY The perception of fear

The perception gap: An explanation for why people maintain irrational fears

NEUROSCIENCE - Brain Rehabilitation

Giffords faces long road to help her brain rebuild itself after Tucson shooting

In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice

brain neurosciene A new and tremendously expensive research project is underway designed to eventually provide neuroscientists with an understanding of how the brain is wired.

One More Barrier to Education

The Technology Monster

With all that doesn't work in the schools, now comes not a Game Changer, but a Brain Changer -- and unfortunately, not for the good

New Fndings about the location of Sarcasm

There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important time. All she did was use an M.R.I. to find the place in the brain where the ability to detect sarcasm resides. But then, you probably already knew it was in the right parahippocampal gyrus.

Katherine P. Rankin, a Neuropsychologist, Studies Sarcasm - NYTimes.com

How Your Brain Makes Political Decisions - Newsweek Sharon Begley - MSNBC.com

How Your Brain Makes Political Decisions - Newsweek Sharon Begley - MSNBC.com
Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the polls—while appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters’ brains.