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Texas Tech Librarian 'Proves' Existence of Spider-Man
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Yes, Mary Jane, there is a Spider-Man. At least, that’s what pop-culture guru and associate humanities librarian for Texas Tech University Libraries Rob Weiner set out to prove in an article published in the International Jo ...
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Brain energy use key to understanding consciousness
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 16, 2009 |
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High levels of brain energy are required to maintain consciousness, a finding which suggests a new way to understand the properties of this still mysterious state of being, Yale University researchers report.
Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...
Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn
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Sep 20, 2009 |
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Scientists have found that some individuals in the vegetative and minimally conscious states, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. ...
Consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi, resolving competing requests, study suggests
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Your fingers start to burn after picking up a hot plate. Should you drop the plate or save your meal? New research suggests that it is your consciousness that resolves these dilemmas by serving as the brain's ...
Cooperative forces boost collective mobility of cells
May 06, 2009 |
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An article by Dr. Xavier Trepat, senior researcher of the Cellular and respiratory biomechanics group at the University of Barcelona, Spain, contributes for the first time an experimental answer to the question ...
Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers ...
Misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness still commonplace
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 21, 2009 |
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A sixteen-month study of consensus-based diagnosis of patients with disorders of consciousness has shown that 41% of cases of minimally conscious state (MCS) were misdiagnosed as vegetative state (VS), a condition associated ...
Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional ...
Perceiving touch and your self outside of your body
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 05, 2009 |
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When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed ...
Now you see it, now you know you see it
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2009 |
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There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it ― between the time we see an apple and the time we recognize it as an apple. Our ...
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