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How to hack other students' minds at the exam?

As we know, in ALS disease, the person loses his ability to move and also to speak. So if we can access the patient's thoughts, we can help them a lot. Is there a way ?

10 October 2018 6,016 1 View

Is it possible to place a microchip in the brain to control human action?

In some diseases, such as Parkinson's, body movements are not human-controlled.Also, in some mental illnesses, a favorable condition can be achieved by controlling the function of the brain. This...

10 October 2018 8,917 0 View

Neural network for recitation of numbers vs. alphabet?

Dear Colleagues, Perhaps you could help me find answers to several questions on the neural organization of alphabet and number recitation: 1. Could recitation of numbers and letters rely on...

10 October 2018 2,101 4 View

How to Confirm a Model on Pre-Test Post-Test Design?

The study is quasi-experimental, I have 3 experimental 1 control group. Each Group has between 20-25 people. I will examine the effectiveness of the method I applied by using the pre-test last...

09 October 2018 5,216 0 View

What could be the adaptative reason of the " mesolimbic motivational system" activated both by "rewarding stimuli" and by "punishing stimuli" ?

As described in the paper " Incentive motivational salience and the human brain" by Jimmy Jensen and Henrik Walter? ( Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 32 ( 2014 ) 141-147

09 September 2018 2,994 0 View

Society for Neuroscience membership?

I'm Applying for SFN membership but i don't know active members there who can support my application all what i need is the name and membership number would you be my sponsor ? Thanks,

09 September 2018 6,675 0 View

Executive function in formal vs. informal second language learning?

Dear Colleagues, Are you familiar with neuroimaging studies or/and do you have any predictions about executive control in implicit/informal versus explicit/formal second language learning? Which...

09 September 2018 7,209 7 View

Methods for quantification of MAP2 fluorescent staining in hippocampal dendrites?

Is it possible to quantify the total number of dendrites (marked with MAP2 and counter stained with DAPI) and/or dendrite length using ImageJ? If so which plug-ins/protocols are recommended? We...

09 September 2018 2,306 3 View

How to prevent subjects from getting bored and tired in a long psychophysics experiment?

For some neuroscience or psychology experiments with simple task repeated for a large number of trials (like event-related potential experiment, or measuring human visibility map), what are some...

08 August 2018 9,725 2 View

What is the best questionary/inventory to access human lateral preference? And why do you consider this as the best instrument?

During these last teen years, my research group (Motor Neuroscience Laboratory) is working on the development of a new lateral preference inventory. We have developed the IPLAG (Inventory of...

08 August 2018 1,466 0 View

For how long can a postdoc job application be "under review" before a positive response?

Hello colleagues, I am sure that someone had already asked this before more than once, but I couldn't find similar questions quickly. I have a PhD and have been working in science for a few years,...

08 August 2018 6,904 4 View

Could anyone tell me about software or code that enable me to measure reaction time RT and velocity of behaving mice?

During social behavior experiments, I need to measure the velocity of moving mice and their Reaction time between visual light cue (sensory stimulus) and movement of mice (subsequent behavior...

08 August 2018 2,843 3 View

How to eliminate Bad Respondents from Survey Data, in a reasonable and widely acceptable way? How to clean Data from Amazon M-Turk?

Dear All, I have been analyzing data from surveys collected on Amazon M-Turk for the last year and a lot of the times it is obvious (and understandable) that people do a pretty awful job at...

08 August 2018 7,771 6 View

Is the chart review tool Diagnostic Evaluation After Death (Salzman et al, 1983) still available?

I am doing research in the validity of alleged psychiatric diagnoses in police reports in cases of forensic autopsy. Quite often papers about this topic refer to the post-mortem chart review tool...

08 August 2018 2,457 1 View

Visualsonics fujifilm exploration in Neurscience for studying striatum, substantia nigra of mice brain on VEVO 3100?

Dear Experts, I am new to animal imaging having VEVO 3100 model of visualsonics, Fujifilm. I wanna ask the procedure of doing it on model VEVO 3100. My region of choice is striatum, substantia...

08 August 2018 7,655 0 View

How to convert .gii files into .nii?

Dear all, I have brain cortical thickness data as CAT12 results (.gii format) and I need to convert those files into .nii. Can anyone provide a script or suggest a way to convert them? Thank you...

08 August 2018 2,000 6 View

Would anyone be willing to take part in this survey?

https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cHZ2Sxz7RMcroQl This study is part of my Masters dissertation Project at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews,...

08 August 2018 1,478 3 View

Looking for partners and advisors: are you interested in mHealth, Breast cancer, and Physical exercise?

Hello, my name is Antonio and I'm a graduate in health and physical activity (University of Rome Foro Italico). I and my group are looking for: medical doctor (oncologist) as advised,...

08 August 2018 2,002 3 View

¿Cuáles son los aportes más importantes que las neurociencias han alcanzado en relación con el aprendizaje y su dirección desde la función docente?

Se habla que sobre las funciones del cerebro, se conoce relativamente muy poco; sin embargo en la literatura comienzan a aparecer términos como "neurodidáctica" y "neuropedagogía"; entre otras. Me...

07 July 2018 4,015 0 View

Diversity amongst Microglia: Is M1/M2 polarization appropriate to use when defining or describing?

Microglia can rapidly change their morphology and function in healthy conditions. In chronic disease states such as type 2 diabetes the microglia undergo a change from the ramified morphology to...

07 July 2018 1,487 6 View

Are successful theories homomorphic to the actual structure of reality?

Einstein defines a theory (i. e. a “complete system of theoretical physics”) as a system that “consists of concepts and basic laws to interrelate those concepts and of consequences to be derived...

07 July 2018 4,372 16 View

Is there someone using MATLAB R2009a?

If you have "data acquisition toolbox" in matlab toolbox, could you send me by email? Thank you. [email protected]

07 July 2018 2,902 3 View

Modified Gallyas Staining; any support?

Hi; My name is Oscar and I´am a Lab Technician at the Neuroscience institute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona; thanks in advance for reading. I´am actually working on the Simplified...

06 June 2018 6,097 7 View

Can the Mind, Intellect, Reason, Wisdom, Sapiens be united into a single phenomenon - NOO?

Who will determine exactly (by function, neuro-physiology, etc) the difference of the phenomena: - Mind (eng), ум (ru), esprit (fr), mente (esp), geist (de), 心灵 (chi); - Reason (eng), разум...

06 June 2018 6,425 0 View

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