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How the Brain Processes Space and Time. Comment: TBI … a great explanation that is so difficult for a person to understand

How the Brain Processes Space and Time FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience ·January 27, 2025 Summary: New research highlights a functional hierarchy in the brain’s processing of space and time. In posterior areas, like the occipital cortex, space and time are tightly linked and … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News.com: How the Brain Uses Place Cells to Anchor Episodic Memories

How the Brain Uses Place Cells to Anchor Episodic Memories FeaturedNeuroscience ·January 15, 2025 Summary: Researchers have developed a model explaining how place cells in the hippocampus anchor both spatial and episodic memories. Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex interact with … Continue reading

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature: The Forgotten History of the Discovery of Human Brainwaves. Quote: As the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, mental hospitals became the epicenter of forced sterilization and “euthanasia” to promote “racial hygiene.”…..In Jena I learned that Lemke was in fact a member of the NSDP (Nazi party). He worked at the Erbgesundheits­gericht(Hereditary Health Court) to carry out forced sterilization of the mentally and physically unfit, broadly defined as the physically disabled, psychiatric patients, alcoholics, among others.

Opinion December 20, 2024 6 min read The Forgotten History of the Discovery of Human Brainwaves The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and Ukraine, suicide and the vicissitudes … Continue reading

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With over 650 publications to his name, Meaney has helped bridge the gap between molecular biology and public health. Neuroscience News

How Early Experiences Shape Genes, Brain Health, and Resilience FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience ·December 31, 2024 Summary: New research in epigenetics reveals how early-life experiences influence gene expression and brain development. By bridging the gap between nature and nurture, this work shows that environmental … Continue reading

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Fascinating for people who have TBI “Human Thought Lags Behind Sensor Speed : Neuroscience News

Why does the brain process one thought at a time rather than many in parallel the way our sensory systems do? Credit: Neuroscience News Human Thought Lags Behind Sensory Speed Featured Neuroscience ·December 30, 2024 Summary: A new study reveals that … Continue reading

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Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia. Comment: it took decades post TBI for me to understand the loss! You are operating in the “now” but you cannot imagine or visualise as you once did. The change becomes the issuse and it is mingled in with deafness in one ear, olfactory sense of smell gone, brocas you can understand the situation but you can’t find the words to express … etc. You realise the 1990’s consultant neurologists knew so very little. There was one neuropsychologist and she assessed losses but again it is decades of change, with real change happening now.

Aphantasics are unlikely to have involuntary visualisations. Credit: Neuroscience News Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience December 15, 2024 Summary: A new study reveals that aphantasics, people unable to visualize, are more resistant to involuntary visual thoughts, such as imagining a … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News.com: How the Brain Processes Visual Information

Targeted or Broadcast? How the Brain Processes Visual Information Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience ·December 17, 2024 Summary: Researchers have uncovered how visual information is processed across the brain’s complex and flexible networks. One study showed visual signals are selectively targeted or … Continue reading

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Broca’s Aphasia explained. Previous article in Nature is about how science is progressing. Experienced Brocas as a result of TBI – this sums up the frustration in trying to speak with people “It takes a lot of effort to say a complete sentence so you may remove certain words to make it easier.” So that people understand Brocas, we will look at what the Cleveland Clinic has to say. There is one positive point to Brocas, you become a good listener.

Home/ Health Library/ Diseases & Conditions/ Broca’s Aphasia Broca’s Aphasia Broca’s aphasia is a language disorder that affects communication. You know what to say but have trouble speaking. It takes a lot of effort to say a complete sentence so … Continue reading

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Nature: Brain’s language region seen in unprecedented detail. (TBI explained to me as “everything inside the protective skull is shaken especially if horseriding”). Brocas is one of the most difficult impediments because it is silent to the outsider world other than people find it difficult to understand your construction of sentences to fact and meaning.

Brain’s language region seen in unprecedented detail A new cellular atlas of Broca’s area will help studying how speech is produced and understood. Leggi in italiano An international research team has created the first cell-by-cell atlas of a part of … Continue reading

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Brain-Wide Connections Predict Human Intelligence

Brain-Wide Connections Predict Human Intelligence FeaturedNeuroscience ·December 11, 2024 Summary: A recent study explores how connections across the entire brain predict human intelligence, moving beyond traditional focus on specific brain areas like the prefrontal cortex. Using fMRI data from over 800 … Continue reading

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