Biggest Neuroscience discoveries of 2007


	Biggest Neuroscience discoveries of 2007

pokkets

9-22-2007 7:08 AM

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pokkets says:

There were 5 , but Artificial Intelligence didn't have that much to say for it's self. I'Ve clipped some of the summaries, more at the page or the source

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ba42cbd-3c71-4375-af22-a249fe670595/C93D9A1A-27C5-45D7-8E2C-F1D3DCFE1502/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm" href="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mindpowernews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>By 
        William Saletan
Source</STRONG></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>: 
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        <FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </FONT></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
The human brain has spent its evolutionary history learning about everything 
        else in the world. Since last summer, it has learned quite a bit about 
        itself. It has discovered lots of things about female sexuality, incest, 
        psychopaths, IQ, brain death, addiction, compulsive buying, and how to 
        remotely control animals through cranial implants. But five major trends 
        and breakthroughs stand out. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT size="3">1. 
        The arrival of mind reading. </FONT></B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm">Scientists</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm">used pattern recognition software to predict, from functional 
        magnetic resonance imaging of people's brains, whether each person had 
        secretly decided to add or subtract two numbers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm"><FONT size="3">2. 
        The neural alteration of morality.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm"><FONT size="3">3. 
        The medicalization of sexual orientation.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm"><FONT size="3">4. 
        The discovery of vegetative consciousness. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm">an English patient</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm">declared vegetative</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindpowernews.com/Neuroscience.htm">was asked, during an fMRI scan, to imagine playing tennis and walking 
        through her home. The scan lit up with patterns that in healthy brains 
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