Archive for January, 2011

Our Brains Know More Than We Do. Unconscious Insight and an Open Challenge To Video Game Developers and Neuroscientists

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Jonah Lehrer writes about neuroscience and that part of the brain found to control insight where the brain makes incredible remote connections. See The Eureka Hunt in The New Yorker July 28,2008.  The aha moment–when an answer pops into our head seemingly out of the blue and when we know it is right, happens in a […]

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VIRTUAL BIOBANKS DATA MINING TO ENABLE DISEASE CURES SOONER

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

Virtual biobank is a  developing concept created to assist researchers in tracking human tissue samples for testing and data mining towards new disease therapies. The concept of a central biobank containing the greatest numbers of tissue samples that are analyzed and translated into usable data, has failed to develop as a result of privacy concerns […]

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NEW POTENTIAL CANCER TREATMENT: IMPLANTING CANCER CELLS IN PATIENTS TO STOP CANCER GROWTH

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

Researchers are now testing a novel new treatment to treat cancer by encapsulating tumor cells in seaweed and implanting them into the stomachs of cancer patients. The process causes the body to send a message to the cancerous growth to stop proliferating. The research is being done at the Rogosin Institute affiliated with Weill Cornell […]

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UNDERSTANDING THE MIND OF A DISEASE

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

The Emperor of All Maladies, a book by Siddhartha Mukerjee M.D. a physician oncologist is subtitled a “biography of cancer”. It appears to be an historical overview of the disease. I say appears because I have not read it yet. What caught my eye was the title of the book review of Dr. M’s book: […]

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FutureVigil 2011: Cognitive Enhancement; Neuroscience, Data Mining and Chronic Disease Therapy

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

FutureVigil’s focus during the coming year will be about  the significant work being done on the brain and our increasing understanding of how it works. Some of this stems from studies using Functional MRI imaging and PET scans and others are animal studies which are leading to clinical trials. Jonah Lehrer, who writes about neuroscience […]

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