31. Books: The Tell Tale Brain by V S Ramachandran
(Neurohacking/Resources)

... has dawned. The discovery of mirror neurons (see Marco Iacoboni’s exciting Mirroring People, 2008) has made a real science out of psychology, for it gives the study of consciousness and the host ...

32. Physiological methods - Epigenetics - Hacking the genome
(Neurohacking/Methods & Technology)

... is neurohacking, (because neurons make up your entire nervous system, not just your brain). You’re ‘interfering with the structure and function of neurons’ all the way along. But this ...

33. Processing - Sensorimotor & Spatial
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

  Touch Neurons Have a Good Sense of Direction     Richard Robinson Freelance Science Writer, Sherborn, Massachusetts, United States of America Citation: ...

34. Processing - Input Weighting
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

    How Do Neurons Look at the World?   Sara Solla explores what it means for groups of neurons to most efficiently represent information in the sensory world. Sara A. Solla Citation: ...

35. Acetylcholine & Muscles
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... from the motor neurons. Muscle contraction is controlled by receptors in the muscle cell membranes that respond to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine when it is released from motor neurons. Acetylcholine ...

36. Anatomy & physiology - Neurogenesis
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

  For New Neurons in an Old Brain, cdk5 Shows the Way     Richard Robinson Citation: Robinson R (2008) For New Neurons in an Old Brain, cdk5 Shows the Way. ...

37. Memory - Processing Experience
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... This model may shed light on other modes of neurocognitive processing as well. The next big challenge will be to figure how individual neurons mediate these functional connections across multiple brain ...

38. Learning - Memory & Timing
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... can contain thousands of neurons, some of which can increase in activity while others decrease. These changes could easily sum to zero in terms of fMRI signal. Thus, while the overall signal within a voxel ...

39. Anatomy & Physiology - Chandelier Cells
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... mammals, like humans, has more classes of neurons than those of “lower” mammals, for which he used the mouse as an example (1). Specifically, he proposed that the variety and sophistication ...

40. Methods & Technology Intro - Part II: Technology
(Neurohacking/Methods & Technology)

... to detect the cumulative effect of the tiny voltage changes [a few microvolts] generated by nearby neurons. The signal is amplified and fed into a computer. It is easier to visualise what the computer ...

41. Methods & Technology Intro - Part I: Methods
(Neurohacking/Methods & Technology)

... brain function testing was testing the performance of individual networks, particular mixtures of networks [modules], groups of neurons, or the whole brain! But FA was still pretty useful. If a person ...

42. diabetes, metabolic syndrome - Obesity - What Makes Mice Fat
(Neurohacking/Disorders & Problems)

... of energy homeostasis. Two types of neurons in the hypothalamus—a region deep in the brain that controls many aspects of physiology—help to regulate fat buildup, or adiposity. First, there ...

43. Disorders & Problems - Introduction to This Section
(Neurohacking/Disorders & Problems)

... or destruction of neurons in the basal ganglia [see anatomy section]. This results in a deficiency of dopamine [see drugs & chemicals section] and troubles with sensorymotor control. What Are ...

44. Tobacco & Nicotine - nicotine as therapy
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... have shown that a different gene, for the growth factor neuregulin, also appears to figure in the disease. Neuregulin, Role and her colleagues have shown, governs the expression of nAChRs in neurons and ...

45. Drugs & Chemicals Intro - Part 2: Synthetic Introduced Chemicals
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... transfer of electrical signals between neurons in the brain. For electrical signals to pass, the NMDA receptor must bind to glutamate. NMDA receptor antagonists either block this receptor or interfere ...

46. Drugs & Chemicals Intro - Part 1: Indigenous Chemicals
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... done the Intal tutorials, you’ll remember than neurons pass their signals across a synaptic cleft, or gap between brain cells, in a chemical fashion, and that this causes the neuron to fire an electrical ...

47. Books: The Healthy Aging Brain
(Neurohacking/Resources)

... to birth new neurons and build new brain structures but, just like when we were children, it continues to grow in an experience dependent manner and has to be stimulated by environmental, relational, and ...

48. Neurohacking Tutorial 5 - Improving & Augmenting N1 & N2
(Neurohacking/Tutorials)

... a stress/relaxation polarity. Attention Attention generally increases the firing rate of responsive N1 & N2 neurons: The stronger (more interesting or important) the stimulus, the higher the ...

49. Matrix Theory Background - Herman Epstein Papers 1
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... going up the ladder from mice to humans. It is known that many (most?) neurons in those layers send their axons and dendrites primarily along the cortex to other areas. Thus, evolution has proceeded by ...

50. Matrix Theory - The Basics
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... it very closely resembles the original. We get the ‘movie’ so lifelike that we forget it’s not a direct feed but a reflection of reality (via mirror neurons). A number of recent studies ...