javamanjoe/brain

FEMALE WINE DRINKERS LESS LIKELY TO DEVELOPE ALZHEIMERS. Thanks 'miranda622'. Say cheers: New research shows that women who drink wine on a regular basis are significantly less likely than others to develop Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

GARY SMALL VIDEO--'HOW THE BRAIN WORKS/CHANGES WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY'. Thanks 'rjj'.

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AMOUNT OF KYNUREIC ACID IN BRAIN MAY HELP AND UNDERSTAND SCHIZOPHRENICS. Thanks 'proximal2u'. ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2008) -- New research has traced elevated levels of a specific compound in the brain to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

RESEARCHERS LINK EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER LINES AND SOME NEURODEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS. Thanks 'aliasinkhorn'. Researchers in Switzerland have found a link between electromagnetic field exposure from power lines and certain neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease.

DOES OUR MIND'S HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR SUPER HUMAN POWERS? Thanks 'danceswithshadows'. A Daily Galaxy post last year, The Importance of Being Forgetful, featured the built-in neural process of forgetting, which discussed why the average human brain is equipped with the ability to filter through seemingly irrelevant details. While the average person may not have vast memory resources, it appears to be an evolutionary trade-off that allows the majority of us to focus on the most relevant facts.

HOW OUR BRAINS' RECOGNIZE FAMILIAR FACES. THE 'JENNIFER ANISTON NEURON'. The faces of different celebrities spark reactions in separate cells of our brains, according to a new 'Jennifer Aniston' study that could pave the way for mind-reading technology.

TOR NORRETRANDERS 'THE USER ILLUSION'. BOOK REVIEW. The Danish mathematician Tor Norretranders has an important thesis: that mind is more than we see. And he has an intriguing sub-thesis: that this is a ubiquitous property in nature. He starts by introducing entropy, and its relationship to information.
James Maxwell showed a flaw in the law of entropy with his imaginary "demon", an intelligent being who manages to separate fast molecules and slow molecules in two separate rooms and therefore create a temperature differential without doing any real work. Maxwell's demon was meant to prove that the law of entropy is valid only "statistically". And it seems to refer more to our intellectual limitations (we are not as smart as the demon) than to a property of the universe. Leon Brillouin started solving the paradox when he discovered that information is a material quantity: information comes from a physical measurement. Wojcieh Zurek finished solving the paradox in 1990 by linking entropy, algorithmic complexity and Turing's machine.
Norretranders then gives a quick overview of the development of mathematical thought in our century: Hilbert, Goedel, Turing, all the way to contemporary algorithmic complexity.
The concept that captures his imagination is "exformation": what is discarded during communication of information.