Brain Talk reveals the short - and long - term negative brain impacts of traumatic mind mapping.
Not exact matches
Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American,
talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of
brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has
revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the
brain.
The experiment
revealed that after the phone was switched to «
talk» mode a different
brain - wave pattern, called delta waves (in the range of one to four Hertz), remained dampened for nearly one hour after the phone was shut off.
Comparing video footage of their stay with their
brain activity (see video, above)
revealed that the neurons remained virtually silent for most of the time, bursting into life only when the volunteers
talked about numbers or numerical concepts such as «more than» or «less than».
The findings, published recently in Neuron,
reveal reneging on an intended behavior involves coordinated cross
talk between several
brain regions.
Her
talk, «The Consciousness of Desire,» will
reveal the
brain regions associated with longing and how they are influenced by mirror neurons —
brain cells that fire when we either perform or observe an action.
The new paper «Extinction Reverses Olfactory Fear Conditioned Increases in Neuron Number and Glomerular Size» highlights the results of a first of its kind study in which researchers
reveal that the olfactory system in the
brain is biologically and structurally more sensitive to trauma cues than previously thought, and that it's possible for fear behaviors associated with emotional learning to be reversed through exposure - based
talk therapy.