This video is about mirror neurons. These mirror neurons are the key to many aspects of social interaction. It allows us to understand the actions, feelings of others. In a way to "read their minds". Possibly mirror neurons play an important role in empathy , an important asset for physicians. But were do they come from these motor neurons? One explanation could be that mirror neurons are an adaptation: an adaptation for action understanding concerns the origins, rather than the current utility, of mirror neurons. It asserts that a certain process – genetic evolution – produced mirror neurons, and that they were .....read more »

Bluebrain | Year One from Couple 3 Films on Vimeo. The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations. More on the Bleu Brain Project here.... Thanks Boing Boing Related posts:Human Computer Interfaces Better Matched to our Brains and Body Brain Power: Brain Only Computer Interface 2 Fun Sites for Brain and Human Anatomy ..read more »

Improvisation is the main feature of Jazz that distinguishes it from other forms of music making. Improvisation is the spontaneous musical performance within a relevant musical context. It consists of novel melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical elements. This unique feature of jazz offers the opportunity for neurobiological research or even creativity. What they did was do a functional MRI brain scan on 6 highly skilled professional jazz musicians. These jazz musicians had to play a simple musical tune and an improvisation on this tune with the restriction to the use of C major scale quarter notes within the same octave of .....read more »

This is all about Loss Aversion or why losses hurt more than gains feel good. To answer the question when to buy or sell stock you need to understand this meta cognitive process. Well Lehrer here can tell you all about it. Lehrer, a critically acclaimed science writer and the popular blogger behind "The Frontal Cortex," explains what the latest in cutting-edge research can tell us about how our minds work. How do we make decisions? And how can we make decisions...better? No related posts. ..read more »

Part of practicing medicine is the recognition of patterns. You need to get the symptoms, physical examination and lab results and review the data to recognize the big picture called diagnoses. The only difference between residents and specialists is the speed at which they arrive at the correct diagnoses. The specialist mostly get there quicker. It becomes interesting when symptoms or findings are out of the ordinary. When new data or different patterns appear not belonging to the well known patterns. The ability to discover these out of the ordinary symptoms and patterns together with the ability to understand new .....read more »

Pregnancy requires many adaptations to new situations. These changes are accompanied by massive neuroendocrine changes leading to adaptations organized by the mother's brain. These changes are necessary for the different phases of pregnancy and motherhood. First optimization is needed for the growth and protection of the fetus, next parturition has to be timely and uncomplicated, next maternal behavior such as caring and defending the young is important together with the start of lactation. It's not easy to understand the complex interaction between female- and pregnancy hormones and their interaction with the maternal brain. At the start of pregnancy the brain controls the .....read more »

Mirror Neurons are important for imitation and emulation but also empathy. Watch this video. They also explains the enthusiasm for social networks. Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it. Related posts:Were do Mirror Neurons Come From? Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Empathy Gender Differences in Empathy ..read more »

Previously we discussed the neurobiology of falling in love. But this is only the beginning, the process of attraction followed by the attachment process. This process can develop and last for a while or in some cases for ever. Biologically is falling in love the first step in pair formation. Falling in love is more accompanied by arousal and more pronounced behavior, "the madness of falling in love" as it is sometimes called. This should be distinguished but not completely from later stages of love or long lasting relationships. Moreover, falling in love is accompanied by stress reactions such as activation .....read more »

The development of the brain from sensory perception into a cognitive world or plasticity and it's advantages Related posts:Brain Blogging, The Fourty-Fifth Edition Cognitive Safety of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression Video of Transcranial Dirrect Current Stimulation and Efficacy in Cognitive Neurorehabilitation ..read more »

When feeling down good music can cheer you up. But when depressed, I mean clinically depressed, can you enjoy music? How is music enjoyment processed by the brain and how is this influenced by depression? All participants of this study enjoyed their favorite music more than the neutral music and depressed patients didn't differ from the healthy subjects in scores for enjoyment of favorite music nor on the difference between the favorite and neutral music. On the fMRI the depressed patients showed less activation of parts of the brain: the medial orbital frontal cortex, the nucleus accumbens and the ventral striatum. .....read more »