In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, HBO is producing a 14-part documentary set to begin March 15th, called The Addiction Project, which attempts to redefine drug and alcohol addiction by looking at the latest science. There is more…
I am under the impression that philosophers who talk about consciousness by and large focus on state consciousness and neglect creature consciousness, perhaps because they think that creature consciousness reduces to (is analyzable in terms of) state consciousness, or at any rate state consciousness is the ontologically more fundamental notion. …
The yearly issue of Synthese devoted to philosophy of neuroscience is out (requires subscription to see the articles).
It’s the title of an article forthcoming in Nature Neuroscience. As yesterday’s NYT article says, this is big news. The authors appear to have recorded the non-REM-sleep-induced dialogue between cortex and hippocampus by which long term memories are consolidated.
According to a recent paper in Nature Neuroscience, children with autism have virtually no activity in their brain’s mirror neuron system, the apparatus that facilitates imitation and empathy. The researchers believe this malfunction may be the primary cause of autism. Link.
Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before – deja vu: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5194382.stm.
