Potential Neuroscience Breakthrough

Chronometric Electrical Stimulation of Right Inferior Frontal Cortex Increases Motor Braking

1. Jan R. Wessel¹,*, 
2. Christopher R. Conner²,*, 
3. Adam R. Aron¹, and 
4. Nitin Tandon²,³

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/50/19611.short?sid=74bee42e-deee-43c6-8227-5c8aed06b44f

Potential Neuroscience Breakthrough May Advance Psychotherapy Practice

If this study is replicated, it could be a major breakthrough in neuroscience, permitting clarification of the commonly misunderstood distinction among feelings, impulses and behaviors--a major problem in psychiatric treatment of "irresistible impulses," commonly seen in most mental health disorders, (intrusive, unwanted thoughts and feelings), but often inappropriately diagnosed. Examples include obsessive worry, self-criticism, and anger resulting in aggressive behavior designed to hide more vulnerable feelings from ourselves and others. Most people use the words anger and aggression interchangeably, despite the reality that anger is a feeling and aggression is a behavior. We often hear patients describe their aggressive behavior as a "necessary" outcome of their feelings of anger, denying that the behavior was "chosen." This is often better understood when one realizes that the feelings of anger are usually "used" to hide from ourselves, more vulnerable feelings, such as helplessness, shame, abandonment, or other feelings of being hurt. Once the neuro-circuitry is elaborated, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation, pharmaceutical or neutraceutical (eg. N-Acetylcysteine, NAC) modification together with effective psychotherapeutic reframing of thoughts and feelings content, could replace the electricity-induced model. Because of neurons' plasticity, many of these modalities, including effective psychotherapy alone, have been postulated to produce neurogenesis and the replacement of unwanted connections with more desirable tracts, often resulting in apoptotic removal of the undesirable tracts. If confirmed in peer reviewed research, this study should be considered a ground-breaking accomplishment. 

Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharm

American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

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Despite the fallacious headline, a primitive, first effort to fulfill Freud's dream wish...

Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming | Surprising Science

American Psychiatry Finally Begins to Sue Criminal U.S. Insurance Industry

http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/index.php?id=2623&type=98&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=141643&cHash=da03e20e36

"To feed and light a village..."

Sun plus pocket mirrors (easy to replace when broken) plus an ordinary pressure-cooker make steam which can power many things, eg. generators, vehicles, etc.


Created at MIT and tested in Nicaragua, this simple set-up expanded to a larger scale can electrify and feed a village or a homeless shelter in America.  

Here's the idea.  Where's the compassion, America?

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/computational-photography-chip-0219.html

Who Is Responsible for the Pandemic of Obesity (and its related diseases) Throughout the World?

How the Junk Food Industry Hooked America (and the World)

FEBRUARY 23, 2013, 12:52 PM

If you've eaten a baby carrot recently, and perhaps thought better of yourself for enjoying a healthy snack food, you are not alone. As obesity has become a national health concern, advertisers have turned to old tricks to market healthier products. Jeffrey Dunn, who once directed Coca-Cola's sales in North and South America, is currently atoning for his previous marketing efforts (bringing Coke into Brazil's poorest neighborhoods called favelas) by pitching healthy snacks to food producers using slogans such as "Eat ’Em Like Junk Food."

Through the 1990s, the food industry poured massive investments into making snack foods packed with sugar and fat, all under the guise of giving the customer what it wants. The research and development put into these snack foods is astounding, from measuring the rate at which foods dissolve in the mouth to the pressure per square inch needed to make a chip snap in half. While attempts are now being made at some corporations to respond to the public health crisis, solutions such as reducing the salt content in foods could ironically result in higher caloric intake per individual.


by ORION JONES

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Is Consciousness the Process of Creating a Shared Illusion of Reality?

http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-ghost-in-the-machine-unraveling-the-mystery-of-consciousness?page=all

Glia More Important than Presumed...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=marijuana-reveals-memory-mechanism

The Mind-Reading Machine

The Mind-Reading Machine

Americans' Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low

Americans' Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low