Modern Parallel Found In Famous Case In 1848 Of Man With Brain Injury
22 May 2012, 3:23 pm
Phineas Gage's miraculous survival after an explosion drove a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod into his left cheek and out of the top of his head in 1848 made him the most famous case in the history of neuroscience based on his survival of this horrific accident, which destroyed most of his left frontal lobe, but also because of the impact his profound injury had on his personality and behavior ...

The Creating Brain: reaching Xanadu
20 May 2012, 10:14 pm
Is there anything different about the brains of extraordinary creative geniuses like Michelangelo, Coleridge or Mozart? World renowned psychiatrist and doctor of English Renaissance Literature Dr Nancy Andreasen unravels the 'creative brain' and explores how we can foster creativity in ourselves and throughout our society.

Being blind actually does heighten other senses
18 May 2012, 9:00 am
We’ve all heard about the amazing ability of some blind people to hear, smell, or touch with such a high degree of acuity that they become almost savant-like.

UCLA researchers map damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain
17 May 2012, 8:50 am
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. UCLA researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage's skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter "pathways" that connected various regions of his brain.

Researchers map damage to Phineas Gage's brain
17 May 2012, 4:56 am
Neurologists have modeled the damage caused to a man's brain when a three-foot metal bar was driven through his head - over 160 years after the accident happened. read more

Damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain: Famous 1848 case of man who survived accident has modern parallel
16 May 2012, 8:06 pm
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. Researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage’s skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter “pathways” that connected various regions of his brain.

Researchers Map Damaged Connections in Phineas Gage's Brain
16 May 2012, 6:29 pm
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. UCLA researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage's skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter "pathways" that connected various regions of his brain.

Is It Willpower or Self-Control?
7 May 2012, 1:53 am
Somewhere along the line we stopped calling it self-control and started calling it willpower. The term self-control, though, shows the connection to the self, and that is the key.

Psilocybin Quiets Brain's Control Centers
1 May 2012, 6:40 am
Researchers have long suspected that the altered perception, kaleidoscopic visions and mood changes produced by psych­edelic drugs reflect a jump in brain activity. Not so, say neuroscientists at Imperial College London and elsewhere. They used functional MRI to peek at the brains of 30 participants experiencing a “trip” induced by intravenously delivered psilocybin, a psychedelic found in magic ...

What Thinking Feels Like, Depicted On Celluloid "In her playful film,
26 April 2012, 1:54 am
Lines of Thought , Aldworth attempts to answer a befuddling question: how do you describe how it feels to think? It may seem an impossible task, but Aldworth conveys it perfectly. A fast-moving line flits from place to place in a sketched brain - speeding through neurons, pinging through cortices."