It’s Not Enough That You Love, It’s How Your Love Gets Excited or Inhibited
I’m guessing this game-changing research will have HUGE implications. As researchers refine their approaches to affecting cellular inhibition and excitation, I can imagine medicines and non-pharmacological interventions becoming more and more precise in their application and their effects. I can also easily imagine the plasticity of the brain allowing for creative experimentation with increasing the pleasure of love-making far beyond what our parents, media or popular culture has ever even hinted at.
My Favorite Woman Neuroscientist
Dr. Susana Herculano-Housel
There’s a lot of gender bias and discrimination in science. Men get most of the money and most of the fame and first-author glory. My personal preference, however, leads me to follow women in neuroscience much more closely than men. This NYT Magazine story profiles one of my favorite neuro wonder women – Susana Herculano-Housel. I love the fact that she brought a collection of simple home ec skills to bear to overturn some longtime neuro dogma.
Some forms of pain actually are all in our mind, or more precisely, our brain. Pain activated primarily in sensory regions – the ones that would cause you to yank your hand or foot out of harm’s way, shows up differently in the brain than chronic pain. Chronic pain activates the prefrontal cortex and the limbic regions of the brain. In those who had suffered for five years, both the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex were structurally transformed, sacrificing 5 to 11 per cent of their grey matter density. When that happens our pain-relieving networks are significantly compromised.
Compelling presentation about the REAL potential value of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology … Andreas Antanopolous. He starts at: 1:45:31 in. Listen to it and get a glimpse of the safe and private world your children will ideally live in. Then extrapolate to how rich and interconnected the world’s collective neural networks will evolve to become.
Plants can think. In ways we are only slowly beginning to understand. They can learn and form memories, they can sense and integrate information about different environmental conditions, and they can recognize whether nearby plants are kin or unrelated. And that’s just what we know about them from recent research. I can easily imagine plants becoming much smarter as we become much smarter in creatively attending to and understanding them.
The Flowering Brain 
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