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NH Knowledge Thread

Hey, guys,

Inspired by an old thread (http://www.scribd.com/doc/10626424/tots … e-thread-1) from the Temple of the Screaming Electron (&totse), now in ruins, I ask you to share your NH-related bookmarks so we can have them all in the same place, neatly categorized - how is open to debate (networks?).

When you post a link, please write a brief description of the content.

Example: Review of a device that allows neurohackers to mix tobacco with marijuana without the harm from smoking - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-JZKY_4CM

This OP will be edited to include your recommendations. May the linking begin. smile

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Drugs & Chemicals

http://www.erowid.org/ (Sakiro)

http://www.longecity.org/forum/forum/169-nootropics/ (Sakiro)

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=172 (Sakiro)

Theory & Research

this is one of like 23 lectures by the fabulous stanford professor Robert Sapolsky.  this one is on depression but if you start from lecture 1 and go through the whole thing you will get a fabulous education on biological behaviourism. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc (sirhinojo)

Methods & Technology

this is a forum for physical therapists and is about crossing over to a so called "ectodermal" approach to pain therapy.  within the forum you can find a lot of interesting resources, links, articles, interviews, charts and more that deal with all things neuro. - http://somasimple.com/ (sirhinojo)

Resources

this is a nice podcast that interviews people working in neurological field. - http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/ (sirhinojo)



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Great idea!

I share my sources related to drugs/nootropics info (most probably here know the sites)

http://www.erowid.org/

http://www.longecity.org/forum/forum/169-nootropics/

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=172

Who will be the next? =)


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Hey, Sakiro,

Thanks for the links.

Any input on how to organize them? I think something akin to our library could work. smile

And, yeah, who's next? =]


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Hi I herewith submit my bookmarks:

http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/    this is a nice podcast that interviews people working in neurological field.

http://somasimple.com/    this is a forum for physical therapists and is about crossing over to a so called "ectodermal" approach to pain therapy.  within the forum you can find a lot of interesting resources, links, articles, interviews, charts and more that deal with all things neuro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc  and this is one of like 23 lectures by the fabulous stanford professor Robert Sapolsky.  this one is on depression but if you start from lecture 1 and go through the whole thing you will get a fabulous education on biological behaviourism.


ok, that's my contribution for now.

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Hey, Dan,

Thanks for those. I'll ask you the same thing, do you have any suggestion concerning the organization of links?

Sakiro, I would appreciate if you could write a concise description, a single line is enough, of what stands out (the strength or peculiarity) in each website you linked because, if the list grows to be half as colossal as totse's - allow me to dream -, it'll facilitate browsing for specific content.

Keep posting, guys!


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I really think that 3 of them can share the same "title/description"


http://www.erowid.org/ (Probably THE resource to share/read experience about drugs, not a forum, not interaction, just "read only mode")


http://www.longecity.org/forum/forum/169-nootropics/  (ex imminist forum, originally a site related to age/life extension research, pretty active)

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=172 (this one is only related to drugs of every kind, last time i saw it if was required a free registration to see certain sections)

Hope that helps a little.

Cheers


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Hey, dude,

Yeah, that's what we need. This is just to give a little guidance to readers and prevent the list from becoming overwhelming (ambitious, huh?). Thanks!

An odd thing just happened. I can't edit the OP to add your descriptions and correct the margin issue that appeared last time I did that.

Could a mod help me out here?


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I've posted it in another thread http://neurohackers.com/index.php/ru/me … p;p=1#p900 already, but probably it belongs here (so that thread can be wiped):
http://skilllearner.appspot.com
A web service I made to help in skill learning. You enter the skill, it mails you when it's time to practice it, so you could practice most efficiently. I configured it according to Alex's book ICMM. Requires a mailbox on Google.


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Hey, left,

Great tool! I'll add it to the OP as soon as the forum allows me to edit it again.

One thing I'd love to code if I could is Harry Kahne's Multiple Mentality Course (below the interesting article on the author here: http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm) to develop focus, multitasking and working memory. Unfortunately, I'm running out of free time and there isn't enough, I guess, to learn programming and do it before the hellish days of drudgery ahead. smile

Edit: Video of him in action http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=37020

Excerpt from the interview: "When did you first discover your ability to direct your mind into several channels of thought simultaneously?"

"At the age of 14, when I was at school. In most lessons, excepting mathematics, I was rather backwards --- not because I hadn’t the ability to learn, but because I did not pay attention. I was an absent-minded youth, a daydreamer --- always letting my mind wander, thinking out little mechanical inventions, planning new forms of code writing, or evolving plots for short stories. One day my teacher fired a sudden question at me, and finding that I was not paying attention, hauled me out for corporal punishment. It was really the feeling of his cane that first turned my thoughts in the direction of multiple mind concentration. I did not want to give up my daydreams, but on the other hand, I had a distinct aversion to corporal punishment. So after a while I got into the habit of letting one part of my brain wander into the realms of inventive fancy whilst I kept the other alert for an enfilade fire of questions from the teacher."


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Yeh, Harry Kahne's Multiple Mentality Course is something that someday i want to give a try!

Maybe when alex come back we could ask him what kind of networks/benefits we can get in doing that kind of exercises?

A lot of stuff to learn/try =)

Cheers


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Yeah, and it looks pretty simple to implement in code, doesn't it? And software would make it more convenient to practice.

Neurohackers will (also) smile at the following:

"But surely there is quite enough strain in your present demonstration without your wanting to add to it?" I exclaimed.

Mr Kahne smiled.

"Perhaps you’re right", he said. :It is very hard work. In the two shows of ten minutes duration which I give every evening I calculate that I use up as much mental energy as the average brain worker expends in an 8-hour day. But I soon recover. I spend all the rest of my time in play and relaxation and never allow myself to worry. It’s worry that kills --- not mental effort. I attribute my clarity of thought not so much to a good memory, but to what I call a good ‘forgettery’. In my daily life I erase all unpleasant thoughts from my mind. And on the stage my ability to forget is an equally important asset. Unless I were able to wipe out from my memory the words given me at the first performance, I might easily confuse them with those called out at the second house. Then where should I be?"


More links, guys!


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Google Group Dual N Back Brain Training Program

http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training

A free software that emulates the software used by Jaeggi to increase Working Memory, and theorically, increase fluid intelligence.

The program is improving a lot since the beggining, right now has a lot of others modes (triple n back, quad n back, aritmethic n back, reverse n back) probably all with different kind of benefits for the brain. You can even modify the speed of the game, the images, sounds, etc, pretty hardcore if you ask me!

Is a community/forum too, that discuss stuff related to optimize/increase intelligence.

I did only 20 sessions (like a year ago, before i discover neurohacking) and seems like my attention improves somehow, i didn't keep doing it because i want to do the stuff in the right order and probably i should do it only when the time to train n6 comes (anyways i asked alex if it could train n2 too because of all the spatial memory that the games have). Maybe are that kind of exercises that trains more than one network.

Cheers


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Good one. I wonder if there are better ways to get the same outcome, though, as the example given by Harry Kahne of doing multiple things simply by playing piano, a much more pleasant activity - n-back, as promising as it looks, bored me to tears when I toyed with it.

Edit: The n-back community you linked us to seems to be heavily focused on intellect, not intelligence. Thought this should be pointed out. smile


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The Mind of a Mnemonist - Book written by neuropsychologist Alexander Luria about an amazing mnemonist called Solomon Shereshevsky, who had an extraordinarily vivid imagination, fivefold synaesthesia and trouble forgetting undesirable memories until he developed a method to get rid of them. - http://www.scribd.com/doc/12983496/Alex … -Mnemonist

Description and FAQ about the Method of Loci, ancient spatial memorization method used and spontaneously rediscovered by Shereshevsky (among others) to recall items in a particular order. - http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html

Music Animation Machine: software that portrays music visually with accuracy and beauty. - http://www.musanim.com/player/


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Hi dudes,
This is exactly the sort of info we are attempting to collect in 'weblinks'; in fact some of these are already in there. I'll transfer others that check out, but remember at any time you can send these in privately or publicly and they'll be added.

If you are recommending books, movies, podcasts etc and you write a review, it can be included in the Resources section of the library.

You might also want to look in these sections before submitting stuff, so that we don't get replicas.  :  )
Best,
AR


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