To make a critical decision, we often siphon in as much raw data as possible, listen to expert advice, run scenarios, and then place our bet or bets on the most logical course of action. But if you notice, the captain of the Starship Enterprise was not...
Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...
I caught a great post the other day from Shilpan Patel, who contends that brain maintenance is a must if you want to keep your gray matter in shape. Luckily, cranium care needn't be too taxing; he offers 14 simple ways to supercharge your brain. Among them:...
In my recent post "Ten Ways to Get Insanely Motivated", the first of the ten ways "Condition Your Mind" may have seemed a bit mysterious. In fact, conditioning your mind is easy, according to Jeff Keller, author of the bestselling book Attitude is Everything. Here...
I'm interested in how people come up with ideas. That's one reason why I reviewed Bernd Schmidt's book "Big Think" (see How To Build Bernd Schmitt's Trojan Horse). So I was eager to read The Road To Eureka! subscription required, a piece in Science News on...
Activities in a group or a team need a brain storming, where all the personnel will discuss particular things or issue about the work which they are doing. But meeting also can be our time killers if we do not schedule it in a proper way. Meetings, in which brain...
At the time you may even have thought it was kind of stupid and a waste of time as people called out ideas that seemed kind of outlandish to you. This personal time management idea will help you to utilize brain storming to increase your performance and creativity. This paper...
The Idea in Brief What do Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, and Sumner Redstone have in common? They're still at the peak of their intellectual powers despite their advanced ages, defying the widespread belief that our mental capacity...
The results of two interesting social science studies relevant to PR and marketing professionals are out this week. Imagine that when you were small, your mother consistently criticized some aspect of the way you performed or presented yourself. Later you grew up and decided (perhaps after years...
In order to combine preoperative data with intraoperative scans for image-guided neurosurgery visualization, accurate registration is necessary. It has been determined previously that a suitable way to model the non-rigid deformations due to brain shift is via a biomechanical model that treats the brain as a homogeneous, isotropic, linear elastic...
The intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging system allows the neurosurgeon to acquire images of the brain during the neurosurgical procedure. In the case of brain tumor resection, this system helps to follow the deformation of the brain. However, even if it provides significantly more information than any other intraoperative imaging system,...
Neuroscientists investigate the molecular and cellular levels of the nervous system; the neuronal systems responsible for sensory and motor function; and the basis of higher order processes, such as cognition and emotion. This research provides the basis for understanding the medical fields that are concerned with treating nervous system disorders....
Each year, about 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, joining the estimated 1 million people already living in the United States with this serious and disabling brain disorder. Parkinson's occurs when nerve cells become damaged or destroyed in the substantia nigra, an area of the brain that is important...
In epilepsy, clusters of nerve cells suddenly signal abnormally, causing seizures and sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness. This brain disorder has many possible causes including genetic predisposition, illness, brain damage, or abnormal brain development. It most often appears either in early childhood or old age. Although many...
Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder that torments sufferers with hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking patterns, and memory deficits. It is especially tragic because it usually strikes during the late teens, 20s, or early 30s, right when individuals are establishing families and careers of their own. It costs society $32.5 billion...
A team of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute, using the world's most advanced brain-mapping machines, have found that the same neural clusters that process the seductive pleasures of sex, chocolate and even hard drugs also fire up for music. There is also persuasive evidence that the brain tends to...
The increased use of image-guided surgery systems during neurosurgery has brought to prominence the inaccuracies of conventional intraoperative navigation systems caused by shape changes such as those due to brain shift. They propose a method to track the deformation of the brain and update preoperative images using intraoperative MR images...
This paper proposes to match a labeled mesh onto the patient brain surface in a multi resolution way for labeling the patient brain. Labeling the patient brain surface provides a map of the brain folds where the neuro-radiologist and the neurosurgeon can easily track the features of interest. Due to...
Magnetic resonance imaging of newborn infants with gestational age ranging from 24 to 40 weeks indicates major developmental changes in the human brain over this time period. Assessment of normal and abnormal anatomical variability requires a coordinate system enabling inter-subject comparison. This paper presents a method for identifying an intrinsic...
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