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Neurotic Thought: Synesthesia May Explain Healers Claims of Seeing People's 'Aura' →
ScienceDaily (May 4, 2012) — Researchers in Spain have found that at least some of the individuals claiming to see the so-called aura of people actually have the neuropsychological phenomenon known as “synesthesia” (specifically, “emotional synesthesia”). This might be…
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“A connectome is a map between neurons inside a nervous system. You can imagine it as being like the map that you see in the back of the pages of in-flight magazines. Imagine that every city in that map is replaced by a neuron and every airline route between cities is replaced by a connection.”
The Man Working To Reverse Engineer Your Brain (via Sebastian Seung: A Neuroscientist Reverse Engineering The Brain : NPR)
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How Does Your Brain Develop? by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
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Anatomical Heart and Mind Necklaces.
Each sterling silver pendant is handmade and very intricate. Each is set on to an eighteen-inch sterling silver necklace chain. Sold on Etsy.
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So this is an amazing thing we talked about in bio the other day. It’s a method called Brainbow. It’s really hard to track neurons when they can get so long and tangly, as you can see in this light microscopy of a mouse hippocampus, so scientists can mark each neuron with a different color of fluorescence via transgenes that produce fluorescent proteins. What a brilliant solution!
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