January 2012
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Study Smarter, Not Harder →
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Where and When You Study
Adjust to Your Learning Styles
Reading Effectively
Listening and Taking Effective Notes
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MIT open course ware: Brain and Cognitive science →
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“In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in...”
– Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease (Translation by Francis Adams in 1886)
Click on the link for a full read :) Obviously, most of this “knowledge” is rustic, primitive and inaccurate. But, give the man a break! To me it seems like reasonable logic, considering this was written 400 B.C.
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Lifelong Brain-Stimulating Habits Linked to Lower... →
Brain scans revealed that people with no symptoms of Alzheimer’s who engaged in cognitively stimulating activities throughout their lives had fewer deposits of beta-amyloid, a destructive protein that is the hallmark of the disease.
While previous research has suggested that engaging in mentally stimulating activities — such as reading, writing and playing games — may help stave...
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Brain shock treatment for academic gain: the... →
Devices which administer the electric pulses required for the treatment can be bought for as little as £500 and are portable, making them affordable and convenient to use. However, this and the fact that there are no rules governing their use, means that they are not restricted to use by professionals in labs and clinics. This could lead to the devices being misused with potentially dangerous...
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Spotting Dyslexia Before a Child Starts School →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2012) — Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children’s Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say....
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“Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save...”
– Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (via seaneaster)
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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader (via bookaddict24-7)
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Alzheimer's Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells:... →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer’s disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative disorder.
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Chemists Synthesize Artificial Cell Membrane →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life.
Do's and Don'ts/ Math exam study guide.
Have someone make up your problems and work them out. Have a friend make a practice test and see if you can do it. It helps to make your own problems because you are more likely to remember them…easy and fun but it does NOT replace good ole’ working out homework twice.
In all math tests, the toughest questions that you encounter while preparing are the ones asked in the test, prepare...
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New Clue to Chemical Origins of Life →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) — Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life.
A team led by Dr Paul Clarke in the Department of Chemistry at York has re-created a process which could have occurred in the prebiotic world.
Working with colleagues at the University of...
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House of Mind: The Neuroscience Behind Near Death... →
So today I found a neuroscience review dealing with a far-out topic: the neuroscience underlying near death experiences (NDE) and other “paranormal” phenomena such as experiences seeing bright lights, meeting the dead or being convinced that you are dead.
According to Mobbs and Watt (2011), approximately 3% of Americans declare that they have had a near-death experience, which typically involve...
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“However improbable we regard this event of anything of the steps it involves,...”
– George Wald
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“Existence as we know it is a divine uncertainty.”
– aebl
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Synesthesia: Brain Study Explores What Makes... →
ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2011) — Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journalCurrent Biology on November 17 have shown that those individuals also show heightened activity in a brain region responsible for vision.
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“It is not the strongest species that survives”
– …nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin. (via gregmelander)
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“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person...”
– Aristotle
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“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (via fyeahliteraryquotes)
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'Bubblegram' Imaging: Novel Approach to View Inner... →
Their findings are reported in the Jan. 13 issue of Science.
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique that allows scientists to image very small particles, like structures on the surface of viruses. This method has been useful in helping researchers understand how vaccines work. But, despite the success of cryo-EM, scientists have been unable to clearly visualize structures inside of...
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Bigger Is Better When It Comes to Our Brain and... →
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — The hippocampus is an important brain structure for recollection memory, the type of memory we use for detailed reliving of past events. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the December 22 issue of the journal Neuron reveals characteristics of the human hippocampus that allow scientists to use anatomical brain scans to form predictions about an...
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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Converted Into Brain... →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2012) — For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases.
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Opioids Erase Memory Traces of Pain →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2012) — A team of researchers at the MedUni Vienna’s Department of Neurophysiology (Centre for Brain Research) has discovered a previously unknown effect of opioids: the study, which has now been published in the journal Science and was led by Ruth Drdla-Schutting and Jürgen Sandkühler, shows that opioids not only temporarily relieve pain, but at the right dose can...
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French chemist and bacteriologist. (via quotablescientists)
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“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing...”
– Voltaire
Parkinson's Treatment Shows Positive Results in... →
The study, sponsored by St. Jude Medical Inc., tested the safety and effectiveness of a constant current DBS device developed by St. Jude Medical to manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The device aimed to reduce tremors, improve the slowness of movement, decrease the motor disability of the disease and reduce involuntary movements called dyskinesia, which are a common side effect of...
“You dont understand your ideas until you try to articulate them to someone else.”
– Brian Eno (via onerandompieceofwisdomatatime)
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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought...”
– David Ben-Gurion (via onerandompieceofwisdomatatime)
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Fit Females Make More Daughters, Mighty Males Get... →
Male flour beetles with large jaws have the most mating success and win the most fights, so are seen as ‘high quality’. However, the muscles and body shape needed to carry the massive jaws mean that large-jawed males father daughters with a more masculine body-shape, less adept at carrying eggs. This means that these successful males father daughters who produce fewer offspring.
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“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (via dirtyarmada)
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The Autism Enigma: Nature Neuroscience Special... →
houseofmind:
Nature Neuroscience, one of the world’s leading peer reviewed scientific journals, has put out a whole issue dedicated to autism and autism-spectrum disorders that is freely available to everyone. I happen to have a hard copy of it and it’s a comprehensive collection of all the recent advances in that field. Click on the link to access a copy of the issue, which includes news,...
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“We are most efficient when we do one thing at a time, fully absorbed,...”
– Tony Schwartz (via gregmelander) 