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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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FastCompany: Why empathy should be your top leadership priority
https://c0c01757ef61b25e44e2e1dc034ec4ba.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html 12-16-2024 HOW TO BE A SUCCESS AT EVERYTHING Why empathy should be your top leadership priority BY Aytekin Tank3 minute read As a father of three, I’ve seen firsthand that people are naturally empathetic—my kids, for example, can’t help but … 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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FT suggestions today: Article to read free. Mental illness and Hope. This article is from New Atlas September 23rd 2024 but I suggest you read both. Uppsala University
Mental Health Tetris: The surprise therapy for PTSD flashbacks By Abhimanyu Ghoshal September 23, 2024 This classic video game from the 80s is good for more than just keeping you occupied Tom Tang / Unsplash View 2 Images A study conducted by … Continue reading
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
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
Neuroscience News.com: Sitting down and Brain Health: it is what you are doing that makes a difference. TV/Gaming not so good but knitting, reading… these are good for brain health
Some Sedentary Activities Are Good For Brain Health FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience ·December 16, 2024 Summary: New research highlights that some sedentary activities, like reading or crafting, are better for brain health than others, such as watching TV or gaming. A study of 397 … Continue reading
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
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (MIT). Commernt: post TBI 30 yrs on, I can identify with this; it seems like agoraphobia entrenched in fear. “Neurons represent individual locations, but together they don’t form a map. But on day 5 they form a map. If you want a map, you need all these neurons to work together in a coordinated ensemble.”
December 10, 2024 Research Findings Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together a “cognitive map” of a … Continue reading
Why Fidgeting Bothers Some People
Why Fidgeting Bothers Some People FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·December 7, 2024 Summary: Misokinesia, affecting about one-third of individuals, is an aversion to repetitive bodily movements like fidgeting, causing emotional, cognitive, and physical distress. New research explores its impact on daily life, relationships, and … Continue reading
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