Understanding the causes and brain correlates of dyscalculia may help to design remediation tools to improve the lives of children and adults with the syndrome
Archive for September, 2008
Unraveling ‘math dyslexia’
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Bat-style footstep detector
Monday, September 29th, 2008‘Hub’ of fear memory formation identified in brain cells
Monday, September 29th, 2008A protein required for the earliest steps in embryonic development also plays a key role in solidifying fear memories in the brains of adult animals
Spacing, not size, matters in visual recognition, researchers find
Monday, September 29th, 2008The spacing between letters, not their size, that matters
Balancing the brain
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Factor spurring formation of inhibitory synapses gives clues to neurologic disorders
Selective deletion of Rett syndrome gene provides insight into origin of complex behaviors
Sunday, September 28th, 2008A new study describes an exciting approach for mapping the specific neuronal origins of complex and varied behaviors characteristic of Rett syndrome
New brain imaging shows effects of withdrawal on smokers
Saturday, September 27th, 2008New Brain Imaging Shows The Effects of Withdrawal on Smokers Trying to Quit and How Therapeutic Nicotine Helps
Protect Loved Ones From Resentment
Friday, September 26th, 2008
by David
Sometimes we have to protect our loved ones from their own resentment. Imagine you are having a good day and all of a sudden something very unnatural happens. A loved one says something or does something that hurts you or makes you angry. You react and now there are two of you acting in an unnatural way. What if you were able to not react?
Some might call not reacting, turning the other cheek. A lot of people have trouble doing this. Well, this isn’t a religion lesson where you feel you must become like a monk to get along in the world by not reacting to your loved ones resentment and/or cruelty. However, if you can stop reacting, you might help them to see what is going on. It takes two to fight. If you remain neutral it doesn’t have to mean you are turning the other cheek. It means you’re not going to be drawn into a disease I call resentment.
Your loved ones don’t know how to cope with neutrality. You may not know either. but looking at it the right way may change your mind about it. The world is full of people who think their way is the right way and at the snap of a finger can become resentful, angry or even violent towards someone.
If someone takes their resentment out on you, neutralize the situation or take a break. After all, you may be wrong. If we harbor resentment we can’t see that we are sometimes wrong because we can’t see anything clearly. Take care of your little corner of the world, your friends, your loved ones…………and you. 
Independent brain pathways generate positive or negative reappraisals of emotional events
Friday, September 26th, 2008Researcher identifies brain pathways that underlie reinterpretation of aversive images in ways that reduce or enhance their negative emotional intensity.
Forgetting facts
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Researchers at two British Universities have been investigating the way in which we forget information.