This article, Near Death Explained by Mario Beauregard, doesn’t actually explain what out-of-body experiences are. What it does is propose non-scientific answers derived from fallacious reasoning. Which is intensely frustrating, because Beauregard is writing about an awesome topic: What happens in our brains when we have out-of-body experiences (OBEs)? I mean, who wouldn’t want to know that? What makes [...]
Archive for April, 2012
Science, Pseudoscience, and Souls
April 24th, 2012 
The Connectome 
Posted in Feature Stories, Featured 
Tags: consciousness, dreams, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology, science to the rescue! 
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Into the Labyrinth
April 16th, 2012 The Connectome Have you ever found that the more obsessed you become with a certain topic, the more references to it keep spontaneously appearing in your life? That’s what’s been happening to me over the past few weeks, as I’ve spent just about every free moment preparing and polishing my TED talk. The talk is a celebration of one of [...]
The Intelligence Network
April 10th, 2012 The Connectome Intelligence isn’t a single process – but it still depends on the coordinated activity of some specific brain areas, a new study reports. In one of the most sweeping surveys in neuroscience history, researchers put patients with various types of brain damage through a battery of cognitive tests, and pinpointed the neural correlates of “general [...]
Posted in Brain News, Featured Tags: functional networks, imaging, intelligence, neurophysiology, structural networks 1 Comment »
