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Neuroscience News: The ventral premotor cortex acts as an abstract mental typewriter, storing and recombining discrete action symbols to drive compositional generalization and creative problem-solving. Credit: Neuroscience News. Comment: (post TBI, frontal lobal damage ex contrecoup, aphasia inter alia other outcomes applies. Also defined by the word Broca) – Quote “Mechanistically decoding how symbols are assembled provides a framework to dramatically improve BCIs, allowing devices to translate neural intent into fluent speech or physical action. The paradigm also offers diagnostic pathways for action-planning disorders like constructional apraxia and psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.”

Posted on May 25, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The ventral premotor cortex acts as an abstract mental typewriter, storing and recombining discrete action symbols to drive compositional generalization and creative problem-solving. Credit: Neuroscience News Brain Region Discovered for Abstract Thought Neuroscience ·May 23, 2026 Summary: Researchers discovered the first … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Schizophrenia. Maybe some hope with this awful diagnosis, so often, casting people into criminal acts or lives of disarray

Posted on May 22, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Schizophrenia Risk Gene Linked to Hyper-Excitable Neurons FeaturedGeneticsNeurosciencePsychology ·May 20, 2026 Summary: A precision functional genomics study successfully mapped the biological timing and cellular consequences of a major schizophrenia-associated gene. The research investigates ZNF804A, the very first risk gene identified from … Continue reading →

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT: The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see. Comment: Fascinated. TBI, personally vision impacted, but nearest to acknowledgement was from Professor Lorraine Cassidy. TThe Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT: The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see. Comment: Fascinated. TBI, personally vision impacted, but nearest to acknowledgement was from Professor Lorraine Cassidy. Professor Trinity College Dublin.

Posted on May 17, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

May 14, 2026 Research Findings The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see Brain cells take in many signals through thousands of circuit connections. A new study in mice discerns the rules that turn what could be … Continue reading →

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The Black Dog, Anxiety, Depression: Darwin understood something about anxiety that modern psychiatry still struggles to accept: You cannot think your way out of a body problem. Here’s the system he used to regulate his mind:

Posted on May 10, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

See new posts Conversation Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108 1:48 PM · May 10, 2026 4,699 Views Relevant View quotes Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108 28m Darwin was not the confident naturalist history remembers. He suffered panic attacks severe enough … Continue reading →

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The Deep View: Quantum, AI spur biological breakthroughs

Posted on May 6, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

RESEARCH Quantum, AI spur biological breakthroughs For years, IBM has been at the forefront of quantum computing. At this year’s Think conference, that ambition was on full display. During the opening keynote, IBM CEO and Chairman Arvind Krishna highlighted quantum’s … Continue reading →

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Harvard Medical School: Scientists Create First-Ever ‘Smell Map’. Comment 30+ years since TBI, as well as losing hearing in my right ear, I lost the sense of smell. The constact response people gave oh you are so lucky. Smell is important, I can vouch for this

Posted on May 5, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Search Breadcrumb Scientists Create First-Ever ‘Smell Map’ A detailed diagram of smell receptors in the nose fills in missing details of how olfaction works Research 4 min read By CATHERINE CARUSO April 28, 2026 At a glance The future of federally funded … Continue reading →

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A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today. Quote: “When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago.”

Posted on April 27, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

@ihtesham2005 A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today. I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many … Continue reading →

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Axios: OpenAI’s new science experiment

Posted on April 17, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

OpenAI’s new science experiment   Illustration: Aïda Amer/AxiosOpenAI unveiled new AI models today built to help life sciences researchers work faster, Axios’ Megan Morrone reports. They’re designed to accelerate research, drug discovery and translational medicine, turning scientific discoveries into better health outcomes.  OpenAI’s first … Continue reading →

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Time: The Neuroscience of the Self

Posted on April 15, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The Neuroscience of the Self ADD TIME ON GOOGLE by Masud Husain Masud Husain is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Oxford and the author of “Our Brains, Our Selves.” Apr 15, 2026 4:56 PM IST What makes up our … Continue reading →

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How the Brain Replays Sight to Create Mental Images. Comment: as stated before post TBI I lost my mind’s eye. This is fascinating and contributes to Aphantasia

Posted on April 10, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

A new study explains that we generate mental images by reactivating the same brain cells we used to see the object in the first place. Credit: Neuroscience News How the Brain Replays Sight to Create Mental Images Featured Neuroscience Visual … Continue reading →

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