Tag: brain activity

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain regions, decision-making, hindbrain, human thinking, Live Science, Matteo Carandini, midbrain, motor regions, mouse study, muscle responses, neurons, pop psychology, processing, R. J. Mackenzie, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arts Education Policy Review, autism, Bernhard Fink, brain, brain activity, break dancing, Charleston, Constantina Theofanopoulou, dance movement therapy, dancers, dancing, forethought, foxtrot, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, Kitsap Kats, line dancing, materialism, music, natural selection, neural signaling, neuroplasticity, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Sadye Paez, Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, Teresa Borowski, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Levengood
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, alcohol, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, behaviors, brain, brain activity, electrical discharges, emotions, epilepsy, forced thinking, medical treatment, migraines, mind, muscles, neuorscience, neurons, neuroscience, obsessive-compulsive behavior, odors, physiological reactions, seizure, stroke, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don't do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, awareness, BBC News, birth, brain activity, cancel culture, Centers for Disease Control, Christof Koch, consciousness, Hatty Willmoth, Joel Frohlich, Pew Research, Research, Science Focus, stimuli, third rail, Tim Bayne, United States, viability}

Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 28, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, brain activity, comatose, consciousness, Elon Musk, fMRI, Neuralink, neuroscience, patients}

A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 26, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brain activity, brain scan, brain waves, Bruce Greyson, death, emotion, failure, hearing, heart, memory, near-death experiences, vision}

Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 26, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, Chapman University, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self}

New Brain Research Supports Free Will

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, atheism, blindness, brain activity, cardiac arrest, consciousness, death, heart, materialism, materialists, mind, neuroscience, Salon, Twitter, University of Montreal, Wesley Smith}

Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›