Tag Archives: Brain

“Dementia diagnosis brings relief, not depression”–Why?

This made absolutely no sense to me at first: ‘The major finding is that both patients and their families feel relief, not increased anxiety, upon learning the [Alzheimer's] diagnosis,’ says study co-author John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre. …

March 8, 2008 – 9:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

“How thoughts arise”

Science Centric has a report on a new, more effective approach to simulating neural networks: In their doctoral theses, Arvind Kumar and Sven Schrader have simulated large neuronal networks that, for the first time, take this neuronal feature into account. Especially in the neocortex, neurones are intensely interconnected, i.e. they receive many input signals that …

January 8, 2008 – 1:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (22)