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...research gathering pace and new insights emerging. University of Virginia psychiatrist Bruce Greyson reported recently on a tantalizing investigation into whether the observations people claim to make during an NDE (details of their resuscitation, the color of a nurse's shoes) are in fact accurate. Meanwhile, University of Kentucky neurophysiologist Kevin Nelson theorizes that NDEs are what can happen when a particular sleep state intrudes on the imperiled brain. "I wouldn't say it's definitive," says Nelson. "But it's an intriguing hypothesis that answers a great deal...
...discovery of the CREB amplifier, more than any other, links the developmental processes that occur before birth to those that continue long after. For the twin processes of memory and learning in adult animals, Columbia University neurophysiologist Eric Kandel has shown, rely on the CREB molecule. When Kandel blocked the activity of CREB in giant snails, their brains changed in ways that suggested that they could still learn but could remember what they learned for only a short period of time. Without CREB, it seems, snails--and by extension, more developed animals like humans--can form no long-term memories...
...What we're doing is trying to teach people how to think about these problems," said Kiang, also a professor of communication sciences at MIT and a neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...alter the course of disease by manipulating psychological factors," contends Dr. Robert Ader, a professor at the University of Rochester medical school and a pioneer in mind-body research. "But to make this knowledge useful to physicians, we need to understand the mechanisms." Dr. N. Herbert Spector, a neurophysiologist at the National Institutes of Health, is convinced that when researchers can pin down the appropriate clinical uses for mind-body therapies, the result will be "a revolution in medical practice...
...first area to attract a number of researchers was the newborn baby's senses, which were once thought to represent little more than hunger to be fed. Systematic testing soon showed that babies not only perceive a good deal but have distinct preferences in everything. An Israeli neurophysiologist, Jacob Steiner, found that a baby as young as twelve hours old, which has never tasted even its mother's milk, will gurgle with satisfaction when a drop of sugar-water is placed on its tongue and grimace at a drop of lemon juice. More