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Consciousness Overview

Consciousness is the quality or state of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many scientists, but in...

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Brain Mapping Overview

  Brain mapping – set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps....

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Aging and the Brain Overview

Age is a major risk factor for most common neurodegenerative diseases, including Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease,cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease....

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Neuroethics Overview

  Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: what the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience, and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience comprises the...

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Neural Recording Overview

Neural recording is the use of neurotechnologies to measure an aspect of brain function and the electro-physiological responses of single neurons. Common neuroimaging methods for measuring brain...

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Neural Engineering Overview

Neural engineering (also known as neuroengineering) is a discipline within biomedical engineering that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or otherwise exploit the...

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Brain Evolution Overview

The principles that govern the evolution of brain structure are not well understood. Brain to body size does not scale isometrically (in a linear fashion) but rather allometrically. The brains and...

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Neuromorphic Computing

Link to Neuromorphic Computing Hub Initial Overview based on Neuromorphic Engineering Wikipedia entry Jan. 6, 2016  Also see Cognitive computing and physical neural network. Examples Neurogrid, built...

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Neuromodulation Overview

Overview Link to Neuromodulation Hub Initial Overview based on Wikipedia entry Jan. 7, 2016. Neuromodulation can be conceptualized as a neurotransmitter that is not reabsorbed by the pre-synaptic...

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