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Where does consciousness come from?

Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 15




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Weighing the difference: Switching to water, diet beverages can tip the scales

Making a simple substitution of water or diet soft drinks for drinks with calories can help people lose 4 to 5 pounds, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.

Medicine & Health / Health

created 10 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Building mountains in a bottle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are preparing to launch a 10-year project to study water resources, gas exchange and carbon cycling in three man-made landscapes built in a half-acre laboratory at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

fMRI brain imaging illuminates magic mushrooms' psychedelic effects

Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work. The findings of two studies being ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Brazil implant maker in eye of global storm

Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strict policy raises hospital's worker flu vaccination rate

A California hospital raised its employee influenza vaccination rate above 90 percent by shifting from a voluntary vaccination program to one mandating all healthcare workers either get vaccinated or wear a mask at work for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

Serendipitous news reading online is gaining prominence

Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the television. The Internet and new technologies now are changing ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Awareness biases information processing

How does awareness influence information processing during decision making in the human brain? A new study led by Floris de Lange of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Synaesthesia linked to a hyper-excitable brain

(Medical Xpress) -- ‘Hyper-excitability’ in regions of the brain may underlie synaesthesia, an unusual condition where some people experience a ‘blending of the senses’, Oxford University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

EEG can detect awareness in people previously thought to be in permanently vegetative state

A study published Online First by the Lancet shows that -- using a cheap, portable electroencephalography (EEG) device -- awareness can be detected in people previously thought to be in a permanently vegetative state. The ar ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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