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Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indiana University Health is Indiana’s most comprehensive healthcare system. A unique partnership with Indiana University School of Medicine, one of the nation’s leading medical schools, gives patients access to innovative treatments and therapies. IU Health is comprised of hospitals, physicians and allied services dedicated to providing preeminent care throughout Indiana and beyond.
Isn't the weather crazy? We don't have any melting snow but we're having flash floods. Not dangerous yet, just strange
Die International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover im Stadtteil Groß-Buchholz ist eine neurochirurgische Privatklinik, die 1998 von dem Neurochirurgen Madjid Samii gegründet wurde. Sie dient der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Erkrankungen des menschlichen Nervensystems. Daneben verfügt die Klinik über Einrichtungen für (tier-)experimentelle und klinische Forschung. Wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architektur wird die Klinik im Volksmund auch „Hirn von Hannover“ genannt.
The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover in the district of Groß-Buchholz is a neurosurgical private clinic founded in 1998 by the neurosurgeon Madjid Samii. It serves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the human nervous system. In addition, the clinic has facilities for (animal) experimental and clinical research. Because of its extraordinary architecture, the clinic is popularly known as "brain of Hannover".
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International Neuroscience Institute (INI) - Hannover
# taken in 2018 with a Sony A7r at 21mm / f8 / 1/250s / iso100
Wavelengths of light exist outside our brains, but colors are subjective mental phenomena that depend on our visual systems.
The easiest way to realize this is to consider how televisions and other displays create the subjective experience of color. They use red, green and blue light (meaning light with the corresponding wavelengths). With these 3 wavelengths, a television can be used to create any color imaginable.
Consider how red light and green light can be combined to create yellow light. This has nothing to do with physics. The two types of light wave do not in any sense "mix", except at the retina.
The retina is not the whole story, however. The neuroscience of color vision is complex, and only partially understood. The famous image of the blue-and-black / white-and-gold dress illustrates this. Some people can voluntarily switch between the two percepts. This implies that the retina is not the only part of the visual system that is involved in color vision. Voluntary control is generally assumed to act at higher levels of the visual hierarchy.
Yohan John, PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University
Die International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover ist eine neurochirurgische Privatklinik. Sie dient der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Erkrankungen des menschlichen Nervensystems. Daneben verfügt die Klinik über Einrichtungen für experimentelle und klinische Forschung. Wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architektur wird die Klinik im Volksmund auch „Hirn von Hannover“ genannt.
Der architektonische Entwurf des INI-Klinikgebäudes vom Münchener Büro SIAT will den abstrahierten Umriss des menschlichen Gehirns darstellen.
The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hanover is a neurosurgical private clinic. It is used to diagnose and treat diseases of the human nervous system. In addition, the clinic has facilities for experimental and clinical research. Because of its unusual architecture, the clinic is also popularly known as the "brain of Hanover".
The architectural design of the INI clinic building by the Munich office SIAT will represent the abstract outline of the human brain.
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I decided to share this image for the upcoming #macromondays theme called #pareidolia
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where people perceive familiar patterns, such as faces, animals, or objects, in random or ambiguous stimuli. It often occurs with visual cues, like seeing a face in the clouds or a shape in a rock formation, but it can also apply to sounds, such as hearing hidden messages in music played backward.
Key Characteristics of Pareidolia:
Pattern Recognition: The human brain is wired to find meaning in randomness, a survival trait that helps identify faces and potential threats quickly.
Ambiguous Stimuli: The trigger for pareidolia is often random or vague, such as shadows, textures, or sounds.
Common Examples:
Seeing a "man in the moon" or other shapes in celestial bodies.
Finding faces in everyday objects, like electrical outlets or toast.
Hearing voices or words in static or white noise.
Causes and Relevance:
Evolutionary Advantage: Our ancestors benefited from recognizing faces and dangers in their environment, which could explain why our brains are attuned to this kind of pattern recognition.
Neuroscience: Specific brain areas, such as the fusiform face area (FFA), are specialized in processing faces, which may lead to this phenomenon.
Art and Creativity: Artists often use pareidolia to spark imagination or design compelling works.
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This building houses the International Neuroscience Institute or INI in Hannover. It is meant to resemble a human brain.
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Appleton is a city in Outagamie (mostly), Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. The population was 72,623 at the 2010 census. Of this figure, 60,045 resided in Outagamie County, 11,088 in Calumet County, and 1,490 in Winnebago County. Appleton is the principal city of the Appleton, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin Combined Statistical Area. Appleton is home to the two tallest buildings in Outagamie County, the Zuelke Building and the 222 Building, at 168 and 183 feet, respectively. Appleton serves as the heart of the Fox River Valley, and is home to the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Fox River Mall, Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton International Airport, and the Valley's two major hospitals: St. Elizabeth Hospital and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Appleton (better known as "Appleton Medical Center"). It also hosts a large number of regional events such as its Flag Day parade, Memorial Day parade, Christmas parade, Octoberfest, Mile of Music, and others.
One of the key challenges in effective development of the integrative Biomedical Informatics concept is to integrate the computational methods and technologies that are used in life-sciences research with the computer sciences and applications supporting health care and clinical research.
This one-day workshop will bring together neuroscientists and clinicians to discuss the synergic integration between the computational methods and technologies used in neuroscience, in order to organise, manage and access the neuroscientific knowledge.
The talks will focus on providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of the different application of biological informatics in neurosciences, such as neuroimaging, neuroingeneering and modeling approaches, and their application in research and clinical settings.
The round table will focus on discussing the better organisation, management and access of the knowledge in the field of neurosciences. Short and long term needs and recommendations will be highlighted.
Appleton is a city in Outagamie (mostly), Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. The population was 72,623 at the 2010 census. Of this figure, 60,045 resided in Outagamie County, 11,088 in Calumet County, and 1,490 in Winnebago County. Appleton is the principal city of the Appleton, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin Combined Statistical Area. Appleton is home to the two tallest buildings in Outagamie County, the Zuelke Building and the 222 Building, at 168 and 183 feet, respectively. Appleton serves as the heart of the Fox River Valley, and is home to the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Fox River Mall, Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton International Airport, and the Valley's two major hospitals: St. Elizabeth Hospital and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Appleton (better known as "Appleton Medical Center"). It also hosts a large number of regional events such as its Flag Day parade, Memorial Day parade, Christmas parade, Octoberfest, Mile of Music, and others.
Though it's been a difficult Autumn for many of us who care about the world, I find myself always turning to the things that I am thankful for. Here's just a short list of these and I hope they hold true for you as well. In the American tradition of Thanksgiving, I find myself thinking of all of the things I can be thankful for no matter what has happened so far in the year. Even if you're not American, I think it's a good practice to be grateful-not only just a feel good practice but also specifically for your Limbic System.
1. Animals: Animals remind me of how kind I can be every day. Being vegan, many people ask me what I cook on Thanksgiving but I really don't miss meat at all. There are so many interesting things you can do with vegetables and using your creativity in this way really challenges your brain to stay young and active. It also gets easier and easier every year with so many great products for vegans-almond and coconut milk instead of regular milk, for instance, and a whole host of cashew based cheeses that taste even better than most dairy and are free of the hormones and cruelty between these two industries. (Feel free to send me an email if you are interested in recommendations) Thanksgiving is a time when I thank those farmers who are still doing things as ethically as possible but more importantly thank the animals who exist on this Earth. Where would we be without animals on our Earth? Even more importantly, if you care about the Earth, cattle farming is causing such a huge increase in methane gas that it is severely limiting our time here too and, considering so many people are living hungry and in poverty, that land could be used more effectively if it was used for farming plants only.
2. Family and Friends: I hope all of you out there have some family members who you are able to reach out to today, if not see in person, and tell them thanks. I am lucky to have both Cinchel and my parents as well as his family in my life. Each human being brings a different element to your life and a new way for you to improve. Think about their qualities, how they support and challenge you to be better and think of how you can let them know how thankful you are for them. A great social support system with friends is also really necessary. Take a moment today, whether you are celebrating Thanksgiving or not, to reach out to your friends and tell them one thing about each of them you are thankful for. Neuroscientists have discovered that when people have a vivid memory, the same areas of their brains are active as when they actually experienced it the first time. So, think about the best moments you have had with friends and family and do a "remember when" to relive that moment. We are never always our best selves but let's try to become closer to this.
3. Art: Having to endure a possible Trump presidency (let's see what the Jill Stein led investigation finds, though, because I want to be optimistic for the sake of my brain and I wouldn't be that surprised if there was some international hacking that robbed us of the last vestiges of our democracy). Anyhow, I was thinking about how, more than ever, when we are sad, we have great art to keep us company. The fantastic thing about human memory is that our experiences change our brain in positive ways. So, when you learn a song by heart or discover a new artist you never knew about (like I did yesterday when I took my parents to the Art Institute in Chicago and saw a really interesting exhibit by Moholy-Nagy), you have those strong positive associations to keep you company like friends. So, even if, like me you are concerned with the arts being further suppressed in certain presidencies, you have all of the books you've read, all of the songs you've heard, all of the art you've seen, and all of the films you've watched to keep you company.
4. Diversity: Another thing that some people don't realize, especially in this climate, is how living with diversity is a positive learning experience. It strengths us as human beings and on a neuroscience level for our brains to learn new languages, learn about new religions and cultures, and to practice kindness to those who are different from us. When we discriminate, we refuse to learn, and that makes our brains stagnant and allows fear to triumph over joy and intelligence. People get into habits where they feel comfortable doing this and I guarantee their lack of empathy is not benefiting them nor, of course, others. What kind of a world do we want to live in? Do we want to be bored with people who are all the same all of the time or do we want to be challenged a little and learn to grow? I have always relished the latter, though I spent my elementary school education with many other kids who were of Asian or African descent and, to me, these were people I called friends. I think if all children were to experience this diversity at a young age, they would not grow up with fear of the unknown as I worry may be happening to some super white majority populations in America even to this day.
5. The Internet: I realize that this can be both a blessing and a curse. With so many media outlets in this country not really doing their due diligence to withhold democracy and being barely one cut above a basement blog, the internet can be really tiring, especially if you're looking to the news to bring you comfort. The positive to the internet is that it can bring people together and can help you learn and be part of a community even with people that live so many miles away on other continents. Flickr has really done that for me and I am thankful for it. I think it's amusing when people get so angry about re-designs. The fact of the matter is that Flickr is still an engaging community where I have met so many wonderful artists that I never would have known about. If something can help you in that way, it's amazing...truly!
6. Neuroscience: I have read many different Neuroscience texts that include research and brain scans within the text and, what I can tell you is that beyond a doubt, everything that you say, do, and think, will change your brain. Your brain is a phenomenal entity and you have the power to strengthen many areas and become a better human. You also have the power to become an optimist, even living in the bleakest of times. If you're like me, this is a challenge and a daily struggle but keep your support networks high and keep reminding yourself what you do have to be thankful for. Reach out to these people. When met with a new challenge, ask yourself, can I use this challenge to become better, to strengthen my brain in an area I may not have used as much before? Can my brain and my humanity become stronger? Is this an opportunity to practice kindness and to learn? Try seeing even the saddest events as opportunities to be your best human being possible...you owe it to your brain!
There are many aspects of our sense of self and many fragments that lead up to a whole. When you drop a delicate glass and it shatters, you see all of the pieces that make up that simple structure that holds liquid. Just imagine how many pieces are inside of each of us, just as fragile and susceptible to damage.
Each year, I make some changes to my life. I wouldn't call them New Year's Resolutions (though I do try to make a couple of those) because they don't always happen on the new year. I yearn to be a flawless person and I've always realized how finite our time spans on Earth are...and so, I don't like to waste any time that I'm given, either when trying to make the world a better place or in terms of trying to make myself into a better person, someone I can respect and love when I Iook in the mirror. 2015 was a year filled with changes for me and, instead of doing a top 10 or 20 or 25 live shows, I thought maybe I would do something different this year instead.
1. Photography:
I have many identities, if you must know. Some call these roles but when your roles in life define you, it seems to become a little more than that. In other words, if you lose one role, like your role as an artist, you will probably have something along the lines of a nervous breakdown, where you question who you are and want to jump out of the window. That's how strongly I identify with myself as a photographer. I've been doing this for 20 years now and I started in the dark room with film and a ton of time and creative youthful energy.
I really haven't changed yet in terms of my yearning to be a part of the collective consciousness that defines us as human beings and wanting to redeem it. There are so many harmful things that bring us all down...we have allowed the rich to get stronger and the poor to become many. We have turned our backs on our sisters and brothers. We no longer recognize them in the street.
More importantly, photography is a sort of art therapy for me. I've been going to a very helpful Sleep Therapist recently to help with my insomnia. He has me rate the stress in my life on a 0-5 scale. 5 is the highest and 0 is literally no stress. After about 5 visits, on our last visit in December, my sleep therapist pointed out to me how he thought it was interesting that I never rated my stress level for each day a 5 even though I often reported that my job was the cause of much dismay. I explained, "That's because, no matter how stressed I am, I realize I have to keep perspective. 5 is genocide. 5 is I am raped and nearly murdered and my family is murdered in front of me. 5 is someone opens their door on me while bicycling and I'm in the hospital and am told I will never walk again or breathe without a machine. If 5 is the worst thing that can happen to a person, I hope I never see it." Did I mention I'm intense?
Anyway, I digress...photography helps me cope with all of the sadness I feel when I think that we're all doomed and uniquely flawed in a way that doesn't allow us to change our mistakes, to make ourselves better, to find redemption. I don't mean religious redemption, either. I just mean that we realize we were each given a unique potential and the failure to live up to this is a black mark upon all of us.
I've made some changes regarding photography and my identity this year. When I started photographing with digital over film in 2006, it opened up some previously unexplored possibilities for me. I've always loved music and concerts and so, increasingly more, I started photographing my favorite bands. I still do so and continue to love it but I feel a sadness in the thought that I'll be be pigeonholed as merely a "concert photographer" when the day is done. More than anything, I have always yearned to capture life at the end of the day. I'm a searcher and I'm searching for the qualities that show us as overcoming all of our past atrocities, as better than all that. There is something in a gesture that Milan Kundera understood...a gesture can be linked to identity and can be it's own greatest art form. I'm a huge fan of animals but the gestures that humans make can actually take my breath away.
I see more views, favorites, comments, etc. when I post a concert photo and I appreciate those but, at the end of the day, I am part of Flickr because I want to grow as a photographer and I don't want to die with people thinking all I ever did was stand alongside 15 other people taking photos of the same musicians at the exact same time. I think that's why I haven't really missed scaling back on shows and festivals overall this year. I still love Levitation/Austin Psych Fest the very best (it's my type of music!) and I still enjoy live shows...but if I am photographing bands, I want to be doing so to promote their creativity and their presence in the world so not necessarily the bands everyone has already heard of in other words.
I realize I'm not the best street or portrait photographer in the world but it takes time to develop and, just like it took time for me to develop as a concert photographer, I have made more of a commitment to devoting time and energy to this endeavor. It's painful to me when I try to be part of a community of street photographers and I feel rejected or condescended to. I have music within me and I sing in my own way. Right now, this is where my heart is leading me.
2. Vegan
When I was 13, it finally occurred to me that it was perhaps more than a little hypocritical to identify myself as an animal lover and then eat them. Back then, I pretty much lived on vegetarian vegetable cans of Progresso soup and it was a challenge to live as a vegetarian in upstate NY not because I enjoyed the taste of meat but because I had a lack of options for my own nutrition. I also had to learn the hard way about taking B vitamin and iron supplements or I'd be feeling weak and/or faint all day long. Pretty soon, though, being a vegetarian became a part of the very fabric of my being and was one of the first things I mentioned. It definitely made me more healthy but it also made me feel like I was a person with integrity.
Of course, not as much was known in 1992 about the environmental implications of being vegetarian and, even more so, vegan. When you're facing food scarcities, using all fertile land in the most optimal way to feed the approaching 7 billion people on this planet seems less like radical ideology and more just like plain common sense.
At least in America, vegan cheeses, yogurts, sorbets, milks, butters, and even egg substitutes have seen remarkable growth. Not so long ago, vegan cheese tasted like play-doh and was absolutely disgusting. We've come a long way, especially in the last three years. I've never been a fan of Daiya, though I appreciate their history in the market, but I am a fan of Heidi-Ho vegan cheese made from chia seeds. Kite Hill, Punk Rawk cheese, Treeline cheese and Mykononos cheese are all fantastic vegan options. In addition, each city (even my own small home town city of Rochester, NY with the amazing vegan restaurant Vive) seems to be developing it's own artisan vegan cheeses. To be clear, these are "cheeses" I wouldn't even realize were vegan. In Chicago, we have Feed Your Head, Teese, Chicago Raw, and Soul Veg. which are amazing-as well as several restaurant options.
When I think about the process in America of separating the young calves from their mothers and killing male chickens, I think about the stress hormones that get transferred from animal to your food. I also think about the rise in quite a few life threatening allergies...some of this may be related to pollution but maybe some of it is related to animals. I became a vegetarian way before epidemics like "Mad Cow Disease" but this disease isn't exactly a compelling argument to continue to eat any animal products for me.
There is going to come a time when we can no longer be dependent on animals for any food source. I don't know when that exact year is...if I had to guess, it will probably be well before I reach old age (if I do reach it). Let's say 2040. Animal products will be unreliable and even toxic. If you'd like for some reasonable substitutes and would, in the meantime, like to become a healthier and more productive human, I would recommend becoming vegan sooner than later. Again, I'm not a radical. I'm not a trend setter. However, I am a person who likes to think I can see trends and has some common sense. Many thanks to my friend and photographer Lindsey Best for opening my eyes and giving me a needed push in the right direction. I hope my words here find you well and you are open minded enough to consider them for yourself and for the future of the world.
Check out her work:
3. Sleep
Being an insomniac started to usurp my identity or components of it for a couple of decades. Ever since I became addicted to Nyquil in high school after a cold, I have struggled on and off with insomnia. My most recent dependency as an adult was 3 Ibuprofen PM AND 3 Melatonin. I have a great deal of anxiety and stress related to work and I found I couldn't sleep without this combination. But then, I had an even more of a problem which was that even this combination wasn't doing the trick. Your body habituates over time and you feel extremely abnormal. You start to really worry about the damage you might be doing to your kidneys, for instance, and start to feel helpless. There are only so many times I can have a panic attack in the middle of the night before I realize I probably need to gather some gumption and actually see a medical professional about it.
This summer/August, I started to see a sleep therapist in Chicago. It was a big change for me because it finally spoke to the idea that I wanted to truly change my life. I've gone through phases of extreme struggle because, like my mother, I feel more creative in the wee hours of the night. I've also gone through phases where I truly viewed being an insomniac as "cool." But, at 3am, when you're sweating profusely, wondering how you're going to get through the next day at work, and wondering if you're racing heart signifies that you'll soon be having a heart attack, you realize this is anything but "cool." While it's true it's helpful to have deep experiences to become a better artist and feel connected to all aspects of the world, it's also very true that you're not helpful to anyone on Earth as a creative entity or otherwise if you're dead.
Fast forward 6 months later. I now sleep at least 6 hours most nights without any sleep aids...this is a big deal for me! When I say a "big deal" what I mean specifically is that if you had told me in August that I would be here in January, I would have thought you were suggesting the impossible. And yet, this is my new reality and, instead of identifying myself based on the sleep I did or didn't get the night before, I have begun to identify myself as the person who can do more with a little more sleep and feeling proud of myself for the progress I have made. Again, I am nowhere near the perfect and flawless human being I would like to be but this is a huge part of becoming better and doing more in the world each day I'm alive.
4. Neuroscience
I've always liked nonfiction in moderation but 2015 especially saw me struggling with some new cases at work where I felt I needed to learn more to become better and, what this inevitably boiled down to is learning more about the human brain and the capacity for change. Even when I was going to university for my degree back in NY in 2001, it was a widespread belief that the human brain was plastic only to a certain point following an injury like a stroke and that if progress didn't occur within the first 6months or so afterwards, the idea that the patient could grow was probably just a little too optimistic.
What neuroscientists have found most recently is that this is actually really false and, even more so, could be obviously damaging to the patient's progress when the doctors and therapists embrace this line of thinking. Neuroscientists have also learned so much more about mental illness, physical disabilities, Autism and other sensory disorders. This is one of the most exciting adventures you can have-realizing even how much potential we have to change and being inspired to change because of it. I've tried to make myself more trilingual, more of an optimist, and more filled with the kindness and empathy related to the struggles people have.
I would highly recommend checking out the following authors/works:
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
by V.S. Ramachandran
www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574712-the-tell-tale-brain
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook
by Elaine Fox
(It sounds kind of hokey and middle of the road but very interesting neuroscience behind optimism):
www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237701-rainy-brain-sunny-br...
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522293-the-brain-s-way-of-h...
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures?f...
And recently my mom has encouraged me to watch youtube clips from this neuroscientist and read his work:
David Eagleman:
Thanks for reading, all. Good luck on your own journeys.
**Update, July 2016. Phineas has left the building! On June 23, 2016 we took Phineas Gage to the Warren Anatomical museum in Boston where he will be reunited with his skull and tamping iron. Although we have enjoyed our 40+ years as his custodians we believe he is so important to the history of medicine that he is better in their care.
December 2009 - The January issue of the Smithsonian Magazine has an article on our Gage daguerreotype.
Thank you, Michael Spurlock for looking at an image that has been looked at by many, many people and seeing the possibilities that no one else saw! Thank you also for the comment you posted in December, 2008. It continues to be an exciting journey.
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The daguerreotype above is making a return visit to flickr after an absence of more than six months. It was first posted in December 2007 when I was a new flickr user. The title then was "Daguerreotype - One Eyed Man with Harpoon" which was what we thought it was when we acquired it over 30 years ago. There was some discussion with members of the Whaling group about the identification of the rod he is holding. It was decided that it was not likely a harpoon. What was it?
In December 2008 there was a post that sent us off in a new direction. A flickr member posted a comment "maybe you found a photo of Phineas Gage? If so, it would be the only one known." A quick Google introduced us to the bizarre life of Phineas Gage and we were hooked.
Over the last six months we have read, researched, made road trips, and contacts we never dreamed of. We have been to the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Harvard Medical School in Boston to see Gage's life mask, skull, and tamping iron. We have been to Cavendish, VT where Gage met with his fateful accident. We have corresponded and collaborated with the world's leading authority on Gage. Amazingly we have also written an article that will be published in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences in August, 2009. We also have posted a web site Meet Phineas Gage.
If you do not know the story of Gage, his accident, and his place in medical history, we suggest to Google his name or check out the links page on our site.
We are amazed at the ability of the internet to share information. If we had not posted this image on flickr for a sharp eyed member to see, we would still be calling this "The Whaler" holding a harpoon. Thanks to flickr and to Michael Spurlock.
Model: Mieke
Body painting: Gesine Marwedel www.gesine-marwedel.de.
At the Paris brainhack global 2017, an open-science event centered on imaging neuroscience, Gesine painted Mieke with neuroscience motifs.
I did all the post-processing in darktable. I first corrected the exposure and applied light non-local means denoising, very light local contrast enhancement, color zone to make the blues darkers, as well as light color correction to make the highlights slightly more yellow and the shadows slightly more blue (complementary colors). Then I used different filter with different drawn masks. To remove sockets and other objects on the wall in the background I used soften, colorize, and lowpass filters as well as a few "spot removal" filters. On the face, I corrected slightly the tone curve to have a bit less contrast and I used a heavier denoising filter (profiled) to make the skin smoother. Finally, using a tone curve filter, I made the eyes more white.
Just got back from a 5 day neuroscience conference in Chicago. Beautiful weather and a fun city for sure. Took this shot after leaving the conference one evening. The rocks under the water were kind of a surpise to see on the really long overexposures (+2, and especially +4). They are kinda blurry because of the slight wave action. I have a few more versions of this shot that I will post soon. 5 exp. enjoy...
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Champalimaud Foundation - Lisbon - Portugal
The foundation undertakes research in the fields of neuroscience and oncology at the modernistic Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon.
With the mission to develop programmes of advanced biomedical research and provide clinical care of excellence, this foundation also as a focus on translating pioneering scientific discoveries into solutions which can improve the quality of life of individuals around the world.
The Champalimaud Clinical Center (CCC) is a modern scientific, medical and technological institution providing specialized clinical treatment for oncology. The Center develops advanced programs for research of diseases and tries to customize the therapies in order to achieve more effectiveness in controlling and treating the diseases.
Nikon D850 + Nikkor AF-S 14-24 f/2.8 ED @ 23 mm
ISO 64 - f/8 - 62 sec
Filter Used:
PROGREY G-150X holder + PROGREY GENESIS "TRUECOLOR" IR ND1000 + PROGREY AURORA GND 0.9 SE
The Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center at UCLA, designed by Robert Venturi & completed 1998.
Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience
900 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
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Stephen Hauser greeted me at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at UCSF with the kind of presence that immediately quiets a room, not through authority, but warmth. There’s something patient and steady in his demeanor. The kind of person who, even after decades at the front lines of medicine, still makes you feel like he’s right there with you, fully. No distance. No armor.
Hauser is best known for transforming our understanding and treatment of multiple sclerosis. For much of the twentieth century, MS remained a stubborn mystery. The prevailing theories focused on T cells. But Hauser, drawing from both intuition and evidence, kept coming back to the role of B cells. It was an unpopular view for years. He persisted.
That persistence changed the world. Through careful experiments and dogged collaboration with immunologists and neurologists across continents, Hauser and his team developed a B cell-targeted therapy that dramatically altered the course of the disease. What had been a cruel and unpredictable spiral for patients became something that could be slowed, managed, even arrested. The treatment, now used around the globe, is one of the clearest examples in modern medicine of science reshaping fate. Millions of people are living freer lives because he stayed the course.
But that isn’t the whole story. In person, Hauser radiates kindness. He listens more than he speaks. He remembers small things and follows up. During our visit, he was quick to credit his colleagues and trainees. There is no trace of the solitary genius trope. Instead, you get the sense of a man who believes deeply in teams, in shared discovery, in lifting others.
He writes about this beautifully in his memoir, The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries. It’s an honest, often poetic look at his life in medicine—his own early fears, the patients who shaped him, the losses, the breakthroughs. The title comes from a moment that only a neurologist might recognize: the face of a patient with a certain kind of brain injury, smiling mechanically while the person inside weeps. That kind of dissonance, between surface and soul, is something Hauser has spent a lifetime trying to bridge.
There is something sacred about the work he does. Not in a lofty, abstract sense, but in the way he remains present with patients. The way he speaks about them, decades after seeing them last. The way he still seems a little awed by biology itself.
As we wrapped our session, I asked him what still drives him. He paused for a long moment before answering. Then he said, “Because it’s not finished. There is still more we don’t understand than we do.” He smiled. “And I still believe we can help.”
That, in the end, might be the most remarkable thing about Stephen Hauser. Not just what he’s accomplished, but that after all this time, he still walks forward with wonder.
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More Edinger-Westphal neurons in culture. Stained for Tubulin (green) and Synapsin (red). Of course, colocalization makes yellow. Imaged with a Zeiss Axioskop 2 FS Plus equipped with a Zeiss Axiocam HRm. 100x total magnification.
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Another development of my ‘brain-art’ series which I have been developing over the last couple of years, and which incorporate my existing smoke art and mandala work. In this image the idea was to convey ‘connectivity’ and the positive ‘flow of energy’ that occurs in the therapeutic alliance when a practitioner is empathically attuned to a child/young person. It was inspired by the affective neuroscience theories by Dan Siegel, Stephen Porges, Bruce Perry and Louis Cozolino - all leading experts in the field of child development research and trauma-informed approaches...
Construction by McCarthy Building Companies at Washington University School of Medicine. Designed by architects Perkins+Will and Cannon Design. Saint Louis, Missouri.
Your brain is considerably more complex wiring than you may think. The main interconnection between your left and right brain hemispheres has 200 million connections. Thus, each wire pair in this cable would represent on the order of 1 million nerves.
"The corpus callosum is the main transverse tract of fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres. It is made of more than 200 million nerve fibers."
Source www.emotion.caltech.edu/agcc/info.html
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High potential? Parents want to know
Psychological examinations are increasingly common to identify gifted children. It’s a trend that hides a complex reality, as gifted children can also be prone to failure.
Enéa gets good marks. But she disturbs the class, talks a lot and complains often. This situation surprises her mother, Stéphanie Laurent. At home, this seven-year old schoolgirl from Lausanne is quiet, responsible and not the type to bother others. What’s wrong? School. Enéa is bored. A teacher friend advised Stéphanie Laurent to enter her daughter for tests to determine whether she was “high potential”. And the result came back positive.
High potential (HP) children are referred to as gifted or precocious. They are sometimes compared with child prodigies, which is one reason for the increase in requests for psychological examinations. “Interest in these tests is growing,” states Pierre Fumeaux, a child psychiatrist at Lausanne University Hospital who is currently conducting a study on the subject. “A few years ago when parents or teachers had to deal with a difficult student, they would ask the doctor if the child was hyperactive. Now the term ‘high potential’ has taken centre stage in the media.” Contrary to popular belief, gifted is not always synonymous with success. High potential children can also be prone to failure.
A different brain
To be diagnosed as “HP”, an individual has to obtain a score of at least 130 on IQ tests. “But the score isn’t enough,” explains Claudia Jankech, a psychotherapist in Lausanne specialised in child and teenager psychology. “We also need to understand their family and social context and their personality.”
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux.
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.”
Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow.
Using a scanner, we can then see which areas are activated,” Pierre Fumeaux explains. “A stimulus or given task will activate certain areas of the brain in normal individuals. In HP children, sometimes several larger areas are activated at the same time,” he adds. These indicators help doctors understand how an HP mind works. “But our knowledge in neuroscience remains limited,” the researcher admits. “Being high potential is not an illness, but a special cognitive ability. And that’s not a priority for researchers.”
INTERVIEW: “The methods of diagnosis are debatable”
In a survey conducted on gifted children, the French sociologist Wilfried Lignier noted that specialists do not agree about the tests designed to diagnose giftedness.
In Vivo You observe that most gifted children don’t have difficulty in school or psychological problems. Why then do parents have them take tests?
Wilfried Lignier These parents are very concerned that their children will face difficulties, whereas they actually have every chance of success. They think that the school’s assessment is not enough. Psychology offers greater legitimacy for their concerns.
IV You approach giftedness as a “debated and debatable” issue. Why?
WL Many psychologists don’t recognise giftedness mainly because they doubt the credibility of IQ tests. These tests are meant to assess something other than academic skills, but in form they are quite similar to the exercises performed in school. Furthermore, children also have this impression. After the test is over, some say that they did well in the “maths” section, referring to the logical reasoning, or the “language” section, referring to the vocabulary. Being so similar to exercises done in school, these tests contradict the idea that intelligence isn’t the same as academic performance. Yet most of the social repercussions expected from test results are based on the idea that they tell a truth that school does not.
IV You show that the diagnosis swings in favour of one gender. How do you explain that high potential is more often diagnosed in boys?
WL Parents tend to express greater concern about their future, as it more readily carries their hopes of upward social mobility. The fact that boys have greater chances of having “symptoms”, such as openly expressing their boredom or not being able to stay still, also plays a role.
Hyper-sensitivity
HP children also typically have emotional characteristics featuring high sensitivity or a high level of empathy. Stéphanie Laurent’s two other children, boys, have also been diagnosed as high potential. “Nathael, age six, cries at Christmas because poor people are cold and have nothing to eat.” His hyper-sensitivity distresses him. “It can take on huge proportions. At one point, Mathys, age eight, felt unreasonable fear because he knew that there was a core on fire at the centre of the earth.” Myriam Bickle Graz, a developmental paediatrician at Lausanne University Hospital who wrote a thesis on the subject, says, “The children seen at consultations were often overwhelmed by their emotions. For some, it was incredibly difficult; they have no filter,” she explains. “The fear of death, for example, comes very early.” They develop symptoms such as anxiety, sleep disorders, strained relationships with other children and aggression.
THE HAPPIEST HP CHILDREN ARE THOSE WHO ARE NOT IDENTIFIED AS SUCH AND MANAGE TO ADAPT.
As in the Laurent family, there are often several gifted siblings. “Not all siblings are necessarily going to be HP, but there is a certain degree of genetic heritage. However, that hasn’t been proven scientifically,” explains Myriam Bickle Graz. “It remains a clinical observation.”
Although some high potential children suffer, the majority of them lead normal lives. As summed up by Pierre Fumeaux, “the happiest HP children are those who are not identified as such and manage to adapt.”
Arborescent thinking deploying in several directions, simultaneously, extremely fast and without boundaries. While it is a important source of creativity, it also implies: Difficulties to identify relevant information; all these thoughts in all directions may be confusing when the child is faced with a question, a problem or a task at school, An absolute need to organise these thoughts within a sturdy frame so that the child feels affectively, emotionally and socially secure. A “global” information processing system, with analogic and intuitive thinking. While it enables a very rich and deep understanding, with photographic memory, it also implies: Serious difficulties to adapt to the traditional schooling systems which treat information in details and sequentially (one thing after the other), An inability to develop arguments or justify their reasoning. Gifted children usually can’t explain their results, they consider the answers obvious, they know intuitively. The necessity to use in parallel the traditional school learning methods and their own knowledge aquisition systems; they do not want to feel useless, rejected or stupid. A thinking mode that needs meaning to function and complexity to develop and bloom. While it is an endless source of information data stored in an exceptional memory, it also implies: Difficulties or even refusal to acquire skills or information which they consider useless, too simple or not exciting enough to justify their attention and efforts, Constant challenges of established rules and norms, to satisfy their needs for meaning, To “learn how to learn” while taming their impatience through inventive and stimulating methodologies, with deep enrichment on all subjects. A way of thinking constantly integrating affective aspects of its environment. While it is a rich incentive to learning, it also implies: Frustration, even rejection of some teachers whom they see as incompetent in their teaching methods or behaviours, Excessive, even pathological reactions if these children, who try to master their environment and their variations, cannot find reassurance. They are scared by what they do not understand and they know, from a very young age, many things that they cannot put in perspective due to their short life experience. A need for constant reassurance on their learning progress, with a learning methodology adapted to their needs and offering a long-term continuity and homogeneity, thus reducing affective disruptions as much as possible.
anhugar.wifeo.com/arborescent-way-of-thinking.php A difficulty encountered by many gifed children is the fact that they think in an arborescent way instead of a linear one. The usual teaching methods are linear - when forced to learn in that mode, gifted children need to make a lot of efforts to voluntarily slow-down their “processing” thinking pace.
Arborescent thinking is very adequate for gifted people; it allows them to use all their mental capacities and their knowledge simultaneously. However, it needs to be guided and framed otherwise their thinking takes them far away from the subject of that day.
Here is an example from Jeanne Siaud-Fachin: The teacher gives a spelling test. He dictates “the boat sails on the sea”. The gifted child will initially visualize an image of a boat on the sea before seeing the sentence made of 6 words. Following the image, her thoughts will go in all directions: well, it is not a good idea to sail today because there is a lot of wind are there any people on that boat? my friend Frank owns a boat, he’s lucky but his parents are divorced, that is not fun I hope my parents will never get divorced yet, Frank has twice as many presents for Christmas now that he has 2 homes which reminds me, I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas etc. While the other children have finished writing the initial sentance, the gifted child does not remember it at all and if she’s pressed, she may write the last sentence that went through her head “ I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas ”.
Also
www.talentdifferent.com/la-pensee-en-arborescence-901.htm...
www.asep-suisse.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&am... (pdf) How to help such children overcome their ‘handicap’
From the main link in the title (translated from the French by Google Chrome, I think): Surprisingly, a high number of high potential children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux.
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.”
Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow.
I shot exactly the same view almost a year ago with my old Nikon D7000 camera, but never found time to process the images. Since the scene is quite easy to reshoot, I went there a few days ago with the "new" D800 and 14-24mm and took a couple of shots.
Out of curiosity I compared the old shots with the new ones. I really didn't expect the difference in the dynamic range to be that huge... D800 has so much more detail in the highlights where D7000 only recorded white overexposed areas... Of course, nothing that can't be corrected by blending multiple exposures in post, but it's so much easier to work with the huge dynamic range of the D800 files :).
Shot and processed in July 2014.
Gear: Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8, tripod.
Processing: manual blending from several exposures, mainly to fix the highlights. Also used one exposure, which was taken around 5 minutes later, to give the buildings some more warm glow. Color and contrast adjustments in Nik Color Efex 4 and Adobe Lightroom.
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