Seminar Papers
Kris Snibbe / Harvard Staff Photographer
Postdoctoral fellow Steven Frankland and Professor Joshua Greene of Psychology suggested that two brain regions build a new thoughts using a conceptual algebra. They used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for scanning the brain. The experiment is scanning the brain of participants, during reading some sentences. One of the example is “The dog chased the man” and “The dog scratched the man”. The areas they found were ’left superior temporal lobe’ and ‘which is locating more toward the center of the head". Also, using the example above, they said, when they change the verb, the ‘dog’ is recognized as the agent. It means, for building a new thoughts, we use that kinds of symbols repeatedly.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/how-the-brain-builds-new-thoughts/
(Getty Images)
Dr. Fadel Zeidan and his colleagues, researched the effect of mindfulness regarding pain. They divided 75 healthy participants into four groups, control group, placebo cream group, sham mindfulness group, and real mindfulness group. First, all participants of four groups took MRI of their brain with painful heat stimulus. After that, they were trained reducing pain during four days. After four days of training, participants took the MRI again, and painful heat stimulus was given. The painful heat was identical stimulus, which the participants experienced during the first MRI scan. Except the control group, the result shows the reduction of pain from rest three groups. Also real mindfulness group was outperformed than other groups.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://time.com/4108442/mindfulness-meditation-pain-management/
Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT (ferritin illustrations courtesy of Wikimedia)
MIT engineers designed protein ‘Ferritin’, which has weakly magnetic characteristic. It could be used for tracking cells or monitoring interactions of cells. It is in developing step, because it is not easy to deliver this particles to specific cell. However, from this study, using the cells with ‘Ferritin’, researchers are able to track some activity with MRI.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://news.mit.edu/2015/engineers-design-nanoparticles-magnetic-cell-sensors-1102
Scott Camazine-Getty Images
The author of Harvard Business Review article, Kabir Sehgal, told us how the money affect to the brain. fMRI was used in the experiments, which presented in the article. There are several different studies in the article, and in this news, they mentioned three key results from different experiments. In short summary, the activity area of brain are depends on the task, which concerning money, and some of it could influence person’s physical symptoms. The results are, 1) When one’s money is at risk, stomach pain could occur. 2) Activated area of brain is similar as cocaine addicts. 3) The activities of brain area are shown in different parts in case of risky decision and safe decision.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
(Image: MIT News)
MIT neuroscientists offered evidence that the inferior temporal (IT) cortex could distinguish objects. They used the data from both humans and primates, and found activation in the neurons of IT cortex, when subject recognizing some objects. Also they compared IT area with V4 area, and found that the neurons on each area activates in some objects but not others. Therefore the researcher said we could predict the flow of recognizing image, from the retina through V1, V2, V4 also in IT.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
Once, we think that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.) mainly shown from children and young adult. However, this write shows that we could find A.D.H.D. from elder people. Also, when elder has ADHD, the disease could confused with Alzheimer’s disease, which regarding old age.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/is-it-alzheimers-or-a-d-h-d/
Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) studied regarding a prosthetic hands. They implanted an electrode array into both motor cortex and sensory cortex. The brain region of sensory cortex recognizes tactile sensations. Those connected wires from motor cortex control the hand. The researchers also show it might be able to communicate sense of touch to the user.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/15/health/prosthetic-hand-senses-touch/index.html
(captured from CNN news images)
We could often hear that exercising is good for physical health, and some intellectual capacity. The study shows the correlation between physically and mentally in children. Researchers used MRI to scan the brain. The MRI results from the child who had an ability in running on the treadmill for a long period of time showed less section of the gray matter in the front area.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/31/health/fit-kids-better-math/index.html
There’s been an argument on how to categorize the gender of human being and recent neuroscience research suggests that
gender identity may exist on a spectrum and that gender dysphoria fits well within the range of human biological variation.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/richard-a-friedman-how-changeable-is-gender.html
Team from Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Illinois was able to plant a device to several mice with a brain damage. They were able to control them with a remote control of the device.
If you’re interested with this article, click the following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/07/24/technology/24reuters-usa-wireless-mouse-brain.html?_r=0