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Oct.03.2012 The Dark Age of Neuroscience I am holding in my hands the October 2012 issue of Scientific American. The cover features a giant synaptic gap between two neurons next to the following blockbuster headline: "The Language of the Brain: how the world's most complicated machine processes and communicates information." I am...	Aug.24.2012 Brain-to-Brain Interface In 1963, a Spanish-born neuroscientist, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, stopped a charging bull with a remote control. Delgado - a kind of neuro-torero - implanted a radio-controlled electrode inside the bull's brain (in the caudate nucleus area) and, in so doing, set a historical...
Feb.07.2012 A Journey Like No Other...into the Mysterious Forest of the Mind What makes us who we are? Think about that question for a moment... ...Among all of the questions we can ask as human beings, even with all of our progress and our potential, that question alone remains one of the most difficult, or perhaps the most difficult, to answer. Innumerable factors are...	Jan.12.2010 Poetry of Awakening Puts Me to Sleep 1. Like a hand in a glove, Mind is an analogy of reality. Consciousness is the real thing. 2. Ego is a memory. Forget it. 3. Look at this proletarian body! Look at its billions of constitutionally independent cells! Look at how they all united in one mind! Can you? 4. If I had a tail, I’d chase it...
Nov.07.2008 A summary of my essays on TMS and changing the way we think Every day, I get questions about the TMS project I’ve gotten involved in at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. What’s that? It’s the use of high power magnetic fields to induce tiny electrical currents in the brain that can change the...	Oct.31.2008 Chasing Memory: Four-part Series in the LA Times Since my days with Gary, I have been fascinated with memory--how the brain processes memory and how our memories define ourselves. Awhile ago, I came across an excellent series about "the efforts of UC Irvine neuroscientist Gary Lynch to understand the biological processes that enable us to...