Seminar Papers

[News] Neuromarketing: the battle for our brains is big business

We can use brain scans to many ways. It could be used for neuromarketing, checking the location of the brain function, and so on. In this article, they are focused on the neuromarketing. For an example, they talked about the beverage Coca-Cola and Pepsi. There are no explanation about how the advertising campaigns changes the perception of the drink of people. However, we can find that the brain region of memory and the hippocampus activate in case of the Coca-Cola, when the subjects know what they were drinking.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/neuromarketing-the-battle-for-our-brains-is-big-business-1.2111403

[News] Music Makes You a Better Reader, Says Neuroscience

Nina Kraus at Northwestern university and her colleagues showed connection between music and education in her research. She said it is because of overlap between neural circuits dedicated to speech and music, and the distributed network of cognitive, sersorimotor, and reward circuits engaged during music making.

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http://magazine.good.is/articles/music-literacy-brain

How your brain can heal your body: Astonishing new research reveals the brain's ability to rewire itself can conquer pain - and overcome 'untreatable' illnesses

Neuroplasticity, in the article, is the brain to change its structure and how it works in response to mental activity and experience. The article shows the research about the neuroplasticity, that brain can overcome the pain and untreatable illnesses.  One of the instance is the patients, who suffered from chronic pain. The patient treated some visualization exercises for brain overpower, and the pain disappeared. 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2907188/How-brain-heal-body-Astonishing-new-research-reveals-brain-s-ability-rewire-conquer-pain-overcome-untreatable-illnesses.html

[News] Neuroimaging Offers Insights into Efficacy of Pain Meds

There are a limitations of the small sample size. Also identifying treatment effect from the single area in the brain can be excessively small.

However researchers found that functional MRI (fMRI) detected responses of naproxen sodium from patients with hand osteoarthritis.

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Rheumatology/Arthritis/49388

The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreams

A recent research, published earlier this month in the Journal of neuroscience started to determine people with high and low dream lucidity were different in their metacognitive ability, that is, the ability to reflect on, and report, one’s mental states.

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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/2015/01/31/lucid-dreams/

[News] New brain decoder could boost neuroscience research

Researchers at Princeton start to make a tool that can show what people’s brains are doing in real time, and signal the moments when people’s minds begin to wander.

This is expected to change the way thinking about paying attention and even present new ways of treating illnesses.

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http://www.nextgov.com/health/2015/02/new-brain-decoder-could-boost-neuroscience-research/105003/

[News] How Brain Scans Can Diagnose Autism With 97% Accuracy

Is it possible to diagnose autism by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)?

The professor Marcel Just and his team performed fMRI scans with two groups of subjects. One group is composed of young adults with autism and the other is general public. The test was response of different social interactions. Researchers used machine-learning techniques, and they found the difference between the two groups.

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http://time.com/3614487/fmri-autism-diagnosis/

[News] Brain imaging a promising method for predicting future behavior, study finds

Researchers have used the brain imaging tool to look inside the brain and predict the human’s future behavior. For example, the likelihood of committing crime, success. 

In this news, it was written how and which field the neuroimaging tool was applied for. Almost brain imaging tools are functional magnetic resonance imaging, and electroencephalography.

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https://www.foxnews.com/health/brain-imaging-a-promising-method-for-predicting-future-behavior-study-finds

What makes kids generous? Neuroscience has some answers

Researchers have tried to demonstrate the moral behavior has been changed as the child gets older. The moral behavior was substituted by measuring generosity. To measure the generosity, the children were participated the ‘dictator game’, which is sharing their own stickers with anonymous child after seeing short prosocial/antisocial animations. As the results, the automatic patterns were exhibited early while the more controlled patterns of neural response appeared later during the period of seeing animation including helping and harmful behaviors.

This study was published by Current Biology in Jan. 5, 2015.

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-kids-neuroscience.html

[Ted] Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are

How we can remember the space around us? The neural mechanism for remembering was explained by neuroscientist Neil Burgess.

If you are interested in this topic, Please play the video clip or click the link below.

http://www.ted.com/playlists/196/the_complexity_of_memory