Manipulating the Brain with Pond Scum (Really) -

Stanford University YouTube Video (18 minutes). Can we cure depression with pond scum?

Bang that Brain Drum!

Finally, an excuse for me playing Ozzy Osborn’s “Ironman” at full volume during Powerpoint slide shows:

“What seems to happen is that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head.” said Petr Janata, a cognitive neuroscientist at University of California, Davis. “It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person’s face in your mind’s eye.”

via Music-Memory Connection Found in Brain | LiveScience.

Post-Traumatic Brain Disorder Shows Up in Brain Scans

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