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‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
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David Dunning: discoverer of Dunning Kruger effect on overcoming overconfidence
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Human brains and fruit fly brains are built similarly – visualizing how helps researchers better understand how both work
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Concussion treatment: the insidious myth about resting protocols that even doctors still believe
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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
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Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests
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NIH studies find severe symptoms of “Havana Syndrome,” but no evidence of MRI-detectable brain injury or biological abnormalities
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Psilocybin therapy alters prefrontal and limbic brain circuitry in alcohol use disorder
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Maine mass shooter had traumatic brain injury, scan shows
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MRI research shows live music makes us more emotional than recordings
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Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways
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The growing link between microbes, mood and mental health
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Researchers were able to isolate the brain from the rest of the body of a pig, and kept it alive and functioning for five hours
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Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
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Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
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People with a "second brain": Why? How?
I've been looking around at different note-taking apps (Notion, Obsidian, Anytype, Joplin, Logseq, etc.) after seeing a few videos about the idea of having a "second brain", and only how has the...
I've been looking around at different note-taking apps (Notion, Obsidian, Anytype, Joplin, Logseq, etc.) after seeing a few videos about the idea of having a "second brain", and only how has the the thought popped into my mind, "What's the point?". A “second brain” seems like it would require spending too much processing power on something that only exists to exist. What are the chances there you're going to remember any given thing after writing it down? You haven’t filled up your first brain yet. This all sounds very pessimistic - my intention is not to insult anyone's choice to use these tools, but I'm curious of what benefits people have gotten from their "second brains". Maybe I'm just the wrong kind of person for it, or maybe it's just that I'm not used to writing things down.
Edit: I'm coming to an interesting conclusion that many people use their version of a second brain for things they need to do. This isn't really what I was referring to, I was more looking at it as a form of journaling or personal research, which might be less common?
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Psychoactive drug ibogaine effectively treats traumatic brain injury in special ops military vets
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Brain tissue on a chip achieves voice recognition
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Scientists use transcranial magnetic stimulation to make patients with chronic pain more hypnotizable
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Reindeer combine sleeping and digesting, Norwegian researchers found after extracting reindeer brain data
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Wasabi linked to ‘substantial’ memory boost
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What causes fainting? Scientists finally have an answer.
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Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience buys factory to build its brain implants
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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Recent neuroscience research suggests that popular strategies to control dopamine are based on an overly narrow view of how it functions
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Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface
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Searching for Maura
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Maryland school district sues social media alleging addictive design rewires young brains
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Boston University - Study finds CTE in 40% of athletes who died before thirty
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Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
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How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back
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Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd
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Consciousness and intrinsic brain information
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
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Study shows if music gives you chills or goosebumps, you may have a special brain
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‘Boxing is a mess’: The darkness and damage of brain trauma in the ring
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What is reality? Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist explains.
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Why depression after traumatic brain injury is distinct — and less likely to respond to standard treatment
Traumatic brain injury multiplies the risk of major depression eightfold. While the emotional trauma of whatever caused such deep damage may be understandable, from a blast in a war zone to a blow...
Traumatic brain injury multiplies the risk of major depression eightfold. While the emotional trauma of whatever caused such deep damage may be understandable, from a blast in a war zone to a blow on the playing field, there’s a physiological component, too, that neuroscientists have long suspected but have been unable to identify.
“As clinicians, a lot of us had a gut feeling that [TBI-associated depression] is a different disease,” said Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor of psychiatry and a clinical neuropsychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “Why did nobody detect it before? I think the reason is because unlike other psychiatric disorders, TBI caused a sort of structural reorganization of the brain.”
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/06/depression-after-traumatic-brain-injury/
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Having an out-of-body experience? Blame this sausage-shaped piece of your brain
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Injection of kidney protein improves working memory in monkeys
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Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
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ChubbyEmu case study of a victim of unlicensed food truck
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Neuroscientists show that brain waves synchronize when people interact
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Nanoplastic ingestion causes neurological deficits
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Soft ‘e-skin’ generates nerve-like impulses that talk to the brain
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Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
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How our team overturned the ninety-year-old metaphor of a ‘little man’ in the brain who controls movement
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Forget the Pokédex, our brains contain a ‘rich cognitive map’ of Pokémon
6 votes