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The Human Brain: Still A Mystery

Some say the ocean depths are the "last frontier;" some say outer space is, and still others contend the last frontier will actually be the human brain itself. Another article lending some support to that notion:

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Anti-depressants: Still Controversial

Anti-depressants: neurochemically effective or just placebos? after all these years, controversy continues:

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/232781

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Music and Neuro-expectations

"Music has a grammar, which, like language, consists of rules that specify which notes can follow which other notes in a piece of music. According to Pearce: "the question is whether the rules are hard-wired into the auditory system or learned through experience of listening to music and recording, unconsciously, which notes tend to follow others."

Music has a grammar, which, like

Geometric Patterns in the Mind

Math and hallucinations of the psychedelic sort:

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http://plus.maths.org/issue53/features/hallucinations/index.html

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Recursion...

In the following sentence, the number of occurrences of 0 is 1, of 1 is 7, of 2 is 4, of 3 is 1, of 4 is 1, of 5 is 1,of 6 is 1, of 7 is 1, of 8 is 2, and of 9 is 1.

In the prior sentence, the number of occurrences of 0 is 1, of 1 is 8, of 2 is 2, of 3 is 1, of 4 is 2, of 5 is 1,of 6 is 1, of 7 is 2, of 8 is 1, and of 9 is 1.

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Music - Speech Linked

Research finding underlying link between human speech and music reported here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202205627.htm

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The Science of Reading

Jonah Lehrer reviews Stanislas Dehaene's fascinating new book "Reading In the Brain," on how the human brain pulls off the amazing (yet routine) practice of rapidly and systematically acquiring meaning from squiggles on pages.

Jonah Lehrer reviews Stanislas Dehaene's fascinating new book "Reading In the Brain," on how the human brain pulls off the incredible (yet commonplace) practice

New Ideas On Consciousness

Consciousness and the brain, from John Brockman's "Edge" site:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dehaene09/dehaene09_index.html#dk

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Neuroscience Breakthrough

In a major brain chemistry finding, Nature reports that the glutamate receptor in the brain has now been characterized:

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091129/full/news.2009.1114.html?s=news_rss

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Neuronal Wiring

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Friday video:

The human brain -- machine... or miracle:

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Blindness and Hallucinations

Do blind people experience visual hallucinations on LSD:

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/11/do_blind_people_hall.html

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Insect Brains

Pinhead-sized brains still allow for complexity:

http://news.discovery.com/animals/tiny-insect-brains-intelligence.html

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Be Careful What You Wish For

'Brain diseases' that someone says he wishes he had!:

http://www.autoadviceoffl.com/Braindisease.htm

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Musical Minds

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PBS's "Nova" and neurologist/writer Oliver Sacks explore music and the human brain here:

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Elucidating Glial Cells

Jonah Lehrer interviews neuroscientist Andrew Koob, author of "The Root of Thought," HERE on the subject of the brain's glial cells, which make up 90% of the brain's cells, yet were long ignored, or relegated to a mere supportive role, by scientists more fixated on neurons.

Jonah Lehrer interviews neuroscientist Andrew Koob, author of "The Root of Thought," HERE on the subject of the brain's

Better Visions Through Chemistry?

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Jill Bolte Taylor Redux

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I Don't Believe It

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Ants and Neurons

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The Brain and the Internet

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