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Scientists are Reading Minds by Measuring Brain Activity. ‘Neural Fingerprints’ of Memory Associations Hint at Mind Reading. Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of electrical signals.
Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given researchers unprecedented insight into the physical processes underlying thoughts. For example, researchers have begun to show that it is possible to use brain recordings to reconstruct aspects of an image or movie clip someone is viewing, a sound someone is hearing or even the text someone is reading. A new study by University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University scientists brings this work one step closer to actual mind reading by using brain recordings to infer the way people organize associations between words in their memories. The research was conducted by professor Michael J. Kahana of the Department of Psychology in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences and graduate student Jeremy R.
Their study was published in The Journal of Neuroscience. In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning. Hippocampal memory modification in... [Int J Neural Syst. 2005 Feb-Apr. Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex ... [Nat Neurosci. 2007. Brain Scans Reveal What You’ve Seen. Neuropsychology - 2. Treatment should be more available: Doctor. KINGSTON - Advocates of a new way of treating post traumatic stress disorder are calling for it to be made available to veterans across Canada.
Called neurofeedback, the treatment has proven successful with a small group of patients at the Kingston Institute of Psychotherapy and Neurofeedback. In the past three years, Dr. Janet McCulloch, a psychiatrist at the institute, has treated close to 50 people. As part of a pilot program, Veterans Affairs Canada funded some veterans to have neurofeedback systems – computer and software – in their homes.
Veterans in Kingston have had good access to neurofeedback treatment. The Kingston Institute of Psychotherapy and Neurofeedback is the largest such clinic in North America and is marking its first anniversary with an open house on Friday and Saturday. But now word about neurofeedback treatment is starting to spread. “Now they are starting to come from Trenton, and Belleville and Brockville,” McCulloch said. “I'm a people person. “It's life changing. How brain performs 'motor chunking' tasks.
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Ten numbers. Neuroscience: The mind reader. Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23.
The patient was only 24 years old when his life was devastated by a car accident. Alive but unresponsive, he had been languishing in what neurologists refer to as a vegetative state for five years, when Owen, a neuro-scientist then at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues at the University of Liège in Belgium, put him into a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and started asking him questions. Incredibly, he provided answers. A change in blood flow to certain parts of the man's injured brain convinced Owen that patient 23 was conscious and able to communicate. It was the first time that anyone had exchanged information with someone in a vegetative state.
Patients in these states have emerged from a coma and seem awake. Owen's discovery1, reported in 2010, caused a media furore. Nature Podcast Communicating with vegetative patients. Lost and found Owen wanted to find one. Anyone for tennis? Can Your Friends Bribe You to Get Healthy? Neuroscience Says Yes. Wade Roush6/15/12 HealthRally is a company that Paul McCartney would understand well.
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