Latest Consciousness Stories
KAANAPALI, Hawaii, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Authors Eckhart Tolle and Dr. Wayne Dyer both came from depressing beginnings; Dyer was raised in an orphanage in East Detroit while, in Germany, Tolle escaped an angry home by wandering through buildings bombed in WWII. Both men underwent profound, deeply personal transformations and have since touched tens of millions of people through their inspirational writing and life-changing public events.These two master teachers will share an open...
Unconscious brain activity demonstrated in a case of prosopagnosiaBrain damage can cause significant changes in behaviour, such as loss of cognitive skills, but also reveals much about how the nervous system deals with consciousness. New findings reported in the July 2011 issue of Elsevier's Cortex demonstrate how the unconscious brain continues to process information even when the conscious brain is incapacitated.Dr Stéphane Simon and collaborators in Professor Alan Pegna's laboratory at...
PHOENIX, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With the 3D release of the final Harry Potter film this week, leading visual neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute say 3D illusions not only provide great entertainment, but might also tell us a lot about how our brains function. Top researchers Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD, and Stephen Macknik, PhD, have spent years examining the correlation between vision and the brain. Recently they have teamed up with some of the world's best magicians,...
Study results may shed light on apparent self-awareness deficits in humansIn the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that rhesus monkeys have a sense of self-agency -- the ability to understand that they are the cause of certain actions -- and possess a form of self awareness previously not attributed to them.The study, which will be...
NAPLES, Fla., June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- After 25 years of research, Tracy Reed, a former Military Interrogator, now a Golf Biomechanic and Mental Game Specialist, has finally found the cause, and more importantly, the cure for the golf slump where nothing works to get it back. In the process, Tracy has unlocked the secret mental pathway for golfers to enter "The Zone" at will. Tracy discovered that in a slump, working on the physical portion of the game rarely fixes the problem of...
For the first time researchers have been able to watch what happens to the brain as it loses consciousness. Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anesthetic drug takes effect.Brian Pollard, Professor of Anesthesia at The University of Manchester (UK), will tell the European Anesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam that the real-time 3-D images seemed to show that losing consciousness involves a change in electrical activity...
The warmest day of the year so far marked the opening of a new public education space in Brooklyn, NY. The name 'ThinkEasy' came about as much from the content of the education, as the atmosphere in the space itself. A former artists studio, this unique space provided the backdrop to a extremely successful first event, entitled 'Meet Your Mind'. (PRWEB) June 11, 2011 The warmest day of the year so far marked the opening of a new public education space in Brooklyn, NY. The...
CARDIFF, Calif., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mind Technologies, Inc. (http://mindtechnologiesinc.com) (Pink OTC: MTEK), announced today that additional funding has commenced through their European subsidiary, Mind Solutions, Inc. which is traded on the Deutsche Borse Stock Exchange. Mind Solutions, Inc., with a market cap in excess of $50 million is a majority owned subsidiary company of Mind Technologies, Inc. Mind Solutions, Inc. has signed an Agreement with a prominent Swiss Firm to...
CARDIFF, Calif., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mind Technologies, Inc. (http://mindtechnologiesinc.com) (Pink Sheets: MTEK), announces the progress being made on The Company's proprietary EEG/ BCI headset, which is currently in development. With The Company's mission to become the world leader in EEG/ BCI technology, Mind Technologies assembled a world-class team of scientists to guide the process of developing a state-of-the-art headset that would revolutionize the brain computer interface...
CARDIFF, Calif., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mind Technologies, Inc. (http://mindtechnologiesinc.com) (Pink Sheets: MTEK), a leader in thought controlled technology applications and software, announced today that Dr. Gerwin Schalk was featured in an article from NPR titled Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action on May 16, 2011. The article describes how the technology can help people that are paralyzed by disease or injury to enable them to operate "bionic arms" and other...
