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None of them knew they were robots

By substitute on June 9, 2006

Theodore Berger, a USC biomedical engineer, is working on an artificial hippocampus. The microchip goes in the brain and routes traffic properly to improve patients with Alzheimer’s, strokes, epilepsy etc. Crazy shit. Right now they have a test bed for a “cortical prosthesis”, and Berger estimates implant use in 10-15 years.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brain, brainslug, chipsinyourhead, madscience, neuroscience, philipkdick, science, tag | 5 Responses

Reverse engineer your brain

By substitute on May 24, 2006

More than 40 years ago, my father wrote a short story called “Dr. Pettigott’s Face.” The eponymous doctor of the story has a theory that pushing the face into happy expressions will make people happy, and has constructed a machine to do this. I remember that for years he had a correspondence with some neuro […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged botox, cosmetics, dad, depression, fiction, neurology, neuroscience, news, polyvagaltheory, psychiatry, psychology, wtf | 9 Responses

Plate O’ Voles

By substitute on May 16, 2006

Today I was looking up information on the web about this vagus nerve stuff and the Polyvagal theory and kept running across information about Prairie Voles and monogamy. This was worth a good laugh partly because it’s a lot of fun to say “monogamous prairie vole”. Apparently the research into the psychobiology of monogamy is […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brain, haveanothervole, morevoles, neuroscience, plateoshrimp, prairievoles, sex, synchronicity, voles, volesvoles | 2 Responses

Interesting news from the phrenology ward

By substitute on May 16, 2006

Today in a psychotherapy session I was discussing my problems with relationships, and more specifically my lack of intimate relationships. The working theory is that my own emotional life is too intense to communicate to others and that I shut them out in ways I’m not consciously able to control, mostly nonverbal. This is particularly […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autism, brain, emotions, neurology, neuroscience, polyvagaltheory, porges, psychiatry, psychology, ptsd, vagus | 16 Responses

Elliot Valenstein, the history of lobotomy, and more

By substitute on March 11, 2006

“Physicians get neither name nor fame by the pricking of wheals or the picking out thistles, or by laying of plaisters to the scratch of a pin; every old woman can do this. But if they would have a name and a fame, if they will have it quickly, they must do some great and […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged doom, dremelyourhead, grimicepickfuture, history, lobotomy, medicine, neuroscience, owmymoniz, psychiatry, psychology, quotes | Leave a response

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