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...them, incantations of the collective good are just sweet-sounding claptrap, and morality is viewed as a matter of personal preference. You want to marry someone of the same sex? It’s your life, love whomever you want. You want to fry your brain on drugs? Go for it. Just don’t come crying to the government when you can’t support yourself...
Godfrey-Smith will join a number of new faces in the fields of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, including Professors of Philosophy Susanna C. Siegel and Edward J. Hall, both recently granted tenured positions. Godfrey-Smith and Siegel will be active participants in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior track, Goldfarb said...
...pleasure of looking at images of a thing accompanied by a smaller version of that thing can feel almost pornographic. Indeed, baby animals and sexy babes can both produce unbidden murmurs of pleasure. This is not a coincidence. Both kinds of images stimulate the brain's pleasure centers, the area that is also aroused by good food and psychoactive drugs. When people talk about being addicted to Cuteoverload or to the National Zoo's "Panda Cam," they aren't exactly kidding...
...specific neurons in macaque monkeys that assign values to different material objects to facilitate decision-making. The results could provide insight into the mechanisms behind human choice. The report, which appeared in the online edition of the journal Nature on Sunday, located these neurons in an area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). “There are neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex whose activity represents or encodes the value that subjects assign to the available goods when they make choices,” said Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, an HMS research fellow who authored the study along...
...point of MND to the motor cortex is a step toward unlocking the mysteries of the disease. "We still don't know what the cause of MND is in the majority of cases," says Vucic. "We don't even know where the disease begins - whether it's in the brain, the spinal cord or the peripheral nerves. Our research, however, suggests it starts in the brain." The brain cells of the MND sufferer are primed to fire, they say. This "hyperexcitability," says Kiernan, "appears to initiate the process of nerve death underlying the development of paralysis." If the future...