• Ancient Antioxidant System Could Hold Key to Reversing Age-Related Blood Disorders

    Updated: 2025-02-03 14:58:15
    Skip to content Search : for Menu Our Bloggers Our Substack Follow Us Bluesky Threads FaceBook Google News Twitter X Contribute Contact New Sign up for our email newsletter on . Substack Ancient Antioxidant System Could Hold Key to Reversing Age-Related Blood Disorders February 3, 2025 Osaka University Trsp gene deletion leads to disrupted selenoprotein synthesis . Created in BioRender . Yamazaki , H . 2024 https : BioRender.com t10g524 In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of aging and blood disorders , Japanese researchers have uncovered how a family of natural antioxidant proteins helps maintain the delicate balance of our blood system throughout life . The findings , published in the journal Blood point to potential new strategies for addressing age-related decline in

  • “Now Is the Time of Monsters”

    Updated: 2025-02-03 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 03, 2025 Now Is the Time of Monsters” I pass on links to two articles in the same vein , one by Ezra Klein the other by Ventkatesh Rao with Klein noting how we are facing four epoch-changing events , any one of which could utterly change the world we have know for the past 70 years . nbsp Both articles cite the writing of the Marxist Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci , who wrote a well know sentence usually translated as The old world is dying , and the new world struggles to be born : Now is the time of monsters . 8221 Rao offers the following graphic of the : transition Klein

  • Tokens of sanity

    Updated: 2025-01-31 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , January 31, 2025 Tokens of sanity I repeat my September 29, 2024 Tokens of sanity post with a few edits : nbsp Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry A animal body that can dissociate itself from the word cloud and emotional reactivities of self and other . selves A courteous guest in its own body and when with others , owning its own experience and letting others own . theirs Favoring reflectivity over reactivity , caressing novelty Clinging to nothing , the current self being a passing fantasy Letting each moment be what it is , not what it should be A blip in the flow of cosmic

  • Everything we experience comes from inside

    Updated: 2025-01-29 06:00:00
    I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal:Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self, our sense of agency. This includes attributing causal agency to others, as in 'they are making me do this,’ This 'error' allows individuals in a kinship group or tribe who share the same error to form an imaginary 'we' hive mind supporting unified action. The higher metacognitive stance is to participate when necessary in the group illusion while maintaining clarity on the fact that the actual agency is within oneself. 

  • Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions.

    Updated: 2025-01-27 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , January 27, 2025 Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions . I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al . in . J.Neurosci both are open source texts that deal with the role of evolutionarily younger primate cortical brain regions such as posterior cingulate cortex and medial preforntal cortex in social belief inference . Such combined modeling and imaging studies are revealing in greater and greater detail the anatomical correlates of social cognition strategies . nbsp Here is the

  • Test your stress level with this quick brain teaser SharpBrains

    Updated: 2025-01-24 08:27:37
    Skip to content Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science Innovation Services Next Chapter Accelerator : 6‑month virtual program Brain Health At Work : Enhancing Talent Mental Health Purpose in Action : Accelerating your Sustainability Journey About In the News Mission Team Public Speaking Clients Endorsements Contact Us En Español Resources Results 2024 Survey : Brain Health Trends Resultados Encuesta 2024 : Tendencias Salud Cerebral The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle E‑Newsletter Resources at a Glance Brain Teasers Top 25 Brain Teasers Games for Teens and Adults Brain Teasers for each Cognitive Ability More Mind Teasers Games for Adults of any Age Report : Pervasive Neurotechnology Report : Digital Brain Health Virtual Summits

  • 4. Guess Are there more brain connections in one human brain or leaves in the whole Amazon SharpBrai

    Updated: 2025-01-24 08:27:36
    : Skip to content Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science Innovation Services Next Chapter Accelerator : 6‑month virtual program Brain Health At Work : Enhancing Talent Mental Health Purpose in Action : Accelerating your Sustainability Journey About In the News Mission Team Public Speaking Clients Endorsements Contact Us En Español Resources Results 2024 Survey : Brain Health Trends Resultados Encuesta 2024 : Tendencias Salud Cerebral The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle E‑Newsletter Resources at a Glance Brain Teasers Top 25 Brain Teasers Games for Teens and Adults Brain Teasers for each Cognitive Ability More Mind Teasers Games for Adults of any Age Report : Pervasive Neurotechnology Report : Digital Brain Health Virtual Summits

  • 5. Five quick brain teasers for teens and adults to flex two key mental muscles Attention and Workin

    Updated: 2025-01-24 08:27:36
    : Skip to content Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science Innovation Services Next Chapter Accelerator : 6‑month virtual program Brain Health At Work : Enhancing Talent Mental Health Purpose in Action : Accelerating your Sustainability Journey About In the News Mission Team Public Speaking Clients Endorsements Contact Us En Español Resources Results 2024 Survey : Brain Health Trends Resultados Encuesta 2024 : Tendencias Salud Cerebral The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle E‑Newsletter Resources at a Glance Brain Teasers Top 25 Brain Teasers Games for Teens and Adults Brain Teasers for each Cognitive Ability More Mind Teasers Games for Adults of any Age Report : Pervasive Neurotechnology Report : Digital Brain Health Virtual Summits

  • 10. Quick brainteaser to test your mental rotation skills SharpBrains

    Updated: 2025-01-24 08:27:33
    Skip to content Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science Innovation Services Next Chapter Accelerator : 6‑month virtual program Brain Health At Work : Enhancing Talent Mental Health Purpose in Action : Accelerating your Sustainability Journey About In the News Mission Team Public Speaking Clients Endorsements Contact Us En Español Resources Results 2024 Survey : Brain Health Trends Resultados Encuesta 2024 : Tendencias Salud Cerebral The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle E‑Newsletter Resources at a Glance Brain Teasers Top 25 Brain Teasers Games for Teens and Adults Brain Teasers for each Cognitive Ability More Mind Teasers Games for Adults of any Age Report : Pervasive Neurotechnology Report : Digital Brain Health Virtual Summits

  • How much does language shape our thinking?

    Updated: 2025-01-24 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , January 24, 2025 How much does language shape our thinking I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post . nbsp I enjoyed reading the article . nbsp Also , I've been comparing the responses of LLMs Chat GPT 4o , Perplexity , Anthropic , Gemini to the very simple prompt : nbsp Please summarize the following essay with the title : I'm frequently finding the Perplexity response most useful . It provides a list of steps it is following and HTML links to the sources it is using . nbsp I estimate it would take me at least 30 min to prepare

  • Poof! I'm 15-20 years younger...

    Updated: 2025-01-20 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , January 20, 2025 Poof I'm 15-20 years younger . A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age . So . I took a selfie of my 82 year old face with my iPhone to get novoslabs.com's and facialage.com's estimates that I am 63 and 67 years old , respectively Now , two weeks later , I have asked my stable of bots GPT 4o , Perplexity , etc for other vendors providing the same service and found four more sites to try . Here are the reactions of all six sites to a further selfie I just took with my : iPhone https : novoslabs.com faceage

  • The Neurobiology of Aging

    Updated: 2025-01-17 06:00:00
    I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging. A number of its review articles are open source. The writing is mostly gibble-gabble, but many useful references can be extracted, particularly on interactions between the immune and nervous systems relevant to aging. 

  • The origin of color categories

    Updated: 2025-01-15 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , January 15, 2025 The origin of color categories Garside et . al make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color . categories Significance A hallmark of intelligence is the use of concepts . Are people innately equipped with concepts Prior research has addressed the question using color , because color is experienced categorically : color categories reflect concepts of color . This study tested for color categories in macaque monkeys , a species with the same visual-encoding systems as humans . If color categories

  • Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation

    Updated: 2025-01-10 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , January 10, 2025 Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al Their : abstract Nested sleep oscillations , emerging from asynchronous states in coordinated bursts , are critical for memory consolidation . Whether these bursts emerge intrinsically or from an underlying rhythm is unknown . Here , we show a previously undescribed respiratory-driven oscillation in the human hippocampus that couples with cardinal sleep oscillations . Further , breathing promotes nesting of ripples in

  • Predictive coding for social perception

    Updated: 2025-01-08 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , January 08, 2025 Predictive coding for social perception Rittershofer et . al introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled Neurobiology of Social Interactions Across . Species Here is the first part of that : introduction Perception cannot rely solely on bottom-up processes , whereby patterns of receptor stimulation are passed up the hierarchy to generate a corresponding awareness . Such bottom-up processes would always generate experiences that are out-of-date and saturated by noise . Predictive processes are thought to play a key role in overcoming these

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