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CARDIFF, Calif., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (http://www.jedimindinc.com) announced today that their Medical Division is now working on a number of medical applications for patients in wheelchairs. An estimated 1.6 million Americans residing outside of institutions use wheelchairs, according to data from the National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D). Jedi Mind's Medical Division is seeking to develop software application that is...
Finding could offer insight into autism and other disordersIn a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space.The discovery, described in the August 30 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could offer insight into autism and other disorders where social distance is an issue.The structure, the amygdala"”a...
CARDIFF, Calif., Aug.( )25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (http://www.jedimindinc.com) -- Based on numerous investor enquiries, CEO Brent Fouch commented this morning on recent stock price and volume action of Jedi Mind, Inc. stock since last Friday. "We recently announced that a Medical Applications Division is being started up within our company. The response has been unbelievable in the marketplace and I think this is due to the developments regarding our...
When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, neuroscientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, investigated the relationship between bodily self-consciousness and the way touch stimuli are spatially represented in humans. They found that...
 It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person's awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious awareness.That has changed with the findings of scientists at Rutgers University in Newark and the University of California, Los Angeles who have developed a highly accurate way to peer into the brain to uncover a person's mental state and what sort of information is...
How well do you know yourself? It's a question many of us struggle with, as we try to figure out how close we are to who we actually want to be. In a new report in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Timothy D. Wilson from the University of Virginia describes theories behind self-knowledge (that is, how people form beliefs about themselves), cites challenges psychologists encounter while studying it, and offers ways we...
LOS ANGELES, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Russell Bell has started a new blog to help readers find noteworthy sources of information relating to metaphysical and spiritual topics. A link to the blog may be found at http://www.testament.org. He observed, "My new blog is for anyone interested in considering diverse aspects of spiritual and metaphysical thought. My first fourteen posts have covered a variety of illuminating subjects."In his first blog post on April 26, Bell wrote: "There...
CARDIFF, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM), CEO, Brent Fouch was interviewed this week by Tom Allinder of HotStockChat.com (http://www.HotStockChat.com). The Company is taking a pro-active approach to make the general public as well as the investment community aware of the revolutionary technology being developed by Jedi Mind, Inc. HotStockChat.com is a well respected financial portal focusing on small cap stocks poised for significant growth. The...
NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- How does one distill 15 billion years of history -- the approximate time it took to make those crafty intelligent animals commonly known as Homo sapiens -- into a manuscript of roughly 400 pages in length? Like any journey, "Myths and Realities" starts at the beginning. John Whedbee's "Myths and Realities" (published by iUniverse) is an amazing discourse on the origin and nature of the human animal, offering an insightful view and discussion of mankind's...
U.S. scientists have determined neural noise may cause a person to miss important changes in the environment. The research was conducted by Vanderbilt University postdoctoral researcher Sam Ling and Professor Randolph Blake. We found that when the brain actively ignores the presence of an object in the environment, it does so in a way that weakens and degrades residual information about that object, Ling said. We found the brain's neural representation of an object outside your window of...
