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Welcome to Brain Stories
Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 11:25am
Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.
The Eyes Have It: A look at EMDR
Submitted by Riki on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 4:59pm
“How do you feel today?” my therapist asks me at the start of our session.
“Anxious,” I reply.
“Want to try some EMDR?”
I shrug. “OK.”
It’s not like anything else has helped to ease my social anxiety, except for psychopharmaceuticals.
“What’s EMDR?”
The Shyness of Brain
Submitted by Vicky Tu on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 3:24pmIn the current society, personality plays a large role in the society. People are often judged by their characters as much as their appearances. The ones with an outgoing and assertive personality are usually the favored ones who are more loved and respected by others. The shy ones are often ignored and misunderstood and become more self-abased. Yet shy people should not be blamed for their particular personality. According to recent studies, shyness is naturally built into our brain. It is a mechanism for dealing with stresses. There are also researches, which show that too much shyness is caused by genes.
Psilocybin, Hallucinations, and the Spiritual Enlightenment
Submitted by egleichman on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 2:54amEve Gleichman
22 February, 2010
Neurobiology 202: Web Paper 1
Paul Grobstein
Psilocybin, Hallucinations, and the Spiritual Enlightenment
Serotonin Syndrome: A brief introduction
Submitted by Caroline H on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 1:14amSerotonin (5-HT) is a key neurotransmitter that regulates numerous functions such as appetite, sleep, memory and learning, mood, behavior, and sexuality amongst other operations of the central nervous system (CNS) (1). As such, its significant bearing on our lives is undeniable: with normal synaptic levels of serotonin, we can live as content, functioning human beings.
“A Tissue of Signs”: Deproblematizing Synesthesia and Metaphor
Submitted by Hannah Silverblank on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 7:17pm
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The Physical World, Time Travel, and Embodied Cognition
Submitted by skim on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 12:31pm
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Submitted by Saba Ashraf on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 10:55amSaba Ashraf February 23, 2010
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Thinking Outside the Brain: Gut feelings and following the heart
Submitted by Raven on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 10:17amRaven Harris
Neurobiology and Behavior
Thinking Outside of the Brain
