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Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on December 21, 2011 at 1:21pm

I've added a new video to the homepage. Check it out.

Comment by Jazz on August 31, 2011 at 6:39pm

A piece of my thoughts i got from looking outside one starry night.

 

 

 

What about the unseen stars? I'm sure they try just as hard, to shine as bright as they can. For me to stop living my ignorant life and admire them. So bright they are. So far yet so close to touching them as if you could lift your hand and leave this life behind, to explore something totally different, but the only place i leave is my mind. The stars give us the honor of gazing upon them while they are still here. Almost gone forever, they are our creators.  They teach us and show us the inevitability of death. For the lessons and beauty i thank the stars, universe, cosmos, my creators. My destroyers, bringers of death to my insignificant life.

 

hmm this sounded way better in my head...

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on July 3, 2011 at 9:09pm

Why Did the Absence of the Corpus Callosum in Kim Peek's Brain Increase His Memory Capacity?

 

Read the brief excerpt here.

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on July 3, 2011 at 9:01pm

Brain in a Dish Comes Alive
A computer chip marinated in neurons and stem cells creates super bursts of activity and could someday help stroke victims' brains heal.

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on March 11, 2011 at 6:57pm

Welcome to the new members who've joined recently. Old members, we miss your contributions.

 

As a reminder, I would like to encourage people to follow these ongoing threads if they are interested:

Blurbs & Tidbits – post short, interesting links here if it doesn’t merit its own thread
Get Mental: The Thinking Ape Repository - for links, publications, and misc. info
Quotes – post interesting quotes here
The Reading List – if you don’t wish to write a book review, post your books here
Video Thread – post your videos here

Comment by Pope Paul on March 1, 2011 at 2:20am

(Sorry for delete/repost.)

 

Amanda Baggs

(see full article from WIRED MAGAZINE, Feb 2008)

As disabled as Amanda is in some ways (e.g. she can't speak), she produced and edited this video herself.

Like many people with autism, Baggs doesn't like to look you in the eye and needs help with tasks like preparing a meal and taking a shower. In conversation she'll occasionally grunt or sigh, but she stopped speaking altogether in her early twenties. Instead, she types 120 words a minute, which the DynaVox then translates into a synthesized female voice that sounds like a deadpan British schoolteacher.

The YouTube post, she says, was a political statement, designed to call attention to people's tendency to underestimate autistics. It wasn't her first video post, but this one took off. "When the number of viewers began to climb, I got scared out of my mind," Baggs says. As the hit count neared 100,000, her blog was flooded. At 200,000, scientists were inviting her to visit their labs. By 300,000, the TV people came calling, hearts warmed by the story of a young woman's fiery spirit and the rare glimpse into what has long been regarded as the solitary imprisonment of the autistic mind. "I've said a million times that I'm not trapped in my own world,'" Baggs says. "Yet what do most of these news stories lead with? Saying exactly that."

 

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on February 10, 2011 at 12:30pm

If learning new things is dependent upon our ability to remember, I'd be curious to know if mental retardation is ultimately a problem with the most basic forms of human memory. Certainly, people can be intelligent but still forgetful about certain things, like the date of their anniversary, etc., but I wonder if MR is a problem with most basic memory systems of the brain.

 

Opinions?

Comment by T A A on February 4, 2011 at 6:38pm

Adriana said there is something wrong in their head

I don't know about wrong... but I do think they have a have a mental illness, and that mental illness predisposes them to seeing/hearing/believing in that which does not exist.

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on January 15, 2011 at 8:58pm

The Whole Brain Atlas 

Comment by Pope Paul on January 12, 2011 at 4:08pm

Regarding placebo effect, even prayer helps, right? A patient's act of taking a pill known to be a placebo somehow still feels to the patient like a positive intervention. Just getting your hopes up helps, right? And God is the Uber Placebo. Perhaps FSM should be warm and fuzzy instead of noodly.

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