Neuroscientists Clam They Have Made Strides Understandng The Teenage Brain...


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Adolescents have long fascinated neuroscience researchers. Their enigmatic brains and behavior often leave lasting impressions -- and not always good impressions -- on friends, family, and society. Teenage boys in particular are prone to risky and destructive behavior that must be fully understood before attempts are made to control or harness it. We profiled a study on the subject just a few months ago.

"The result is a series of 19 studies that approached the question from multiple scientific domains, including psychology, neurochemistry, brain imaging, clinical neuroscience and neurobiology. The studies are published in a special volume of Developmental Neuroscience, 'Teenage Brains: Think Different?'"

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/neuroscientists-make-huge-strides-toward-solving-the-mysteries-of-the-teenage-brain

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the one brain study that I find, conceptually, extremely interesting and to hold the most possibility for our understanding of the brain is one, and excuse me that I can't remember the exact country that is doing this but it isnt the U.S., where they are attempting to build a super computer with one cpu core to correspond with every neuron in the brain! That would be of very practical use. the cores could be connected like neurons and patterned after our currrent map of the brain and then you can turn off groups of cores and see what happens. The cores wouldn't have to be cutting edge either so you could purchase 5 year old obsolete ones by the bucketful (it would still take up a huge amount of space)

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the one brain study that I find, conceptually, extremely interesting and to hold the most possibility for our understanding of the brain is one, and excuse me that I can't remember the exact country that is doing this but it isnt the U.S., where they are attempting to build a super computer with one cpu core to correspond with every neuron in the brain! That would be of very practical use. the cores could be connected like neurons and patterned after our currrent map of the brain and then you can turn off groups of cores and see what happens. The cores wouldn't have to be cutting edge either so you could purchase 5 year old obsolete ones by the bucketful (it would still take up a huge amount of space)

This is the closest thing I could find:

http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program

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Adolescents have long fascinated neuroscience researchers. Their enigmatic brains and behavior often leave lasting impressions -- and not always good impressions -- on friends, family, and society. Teenage boys in particular are prone to risky and destructive behavior that must be fully understood before attempts are made to control or harness it. We profiled a study on the subject just a few months ago.

Must scientists always treat humans like oxen?

Darrell

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Must scientists always treat humans like oxen?

Darrell

Lol...

Depends on who is being gored Darrell...

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the one brain study that I find, conceptually, extremely interesting and to hold the most possibility for our understanding of the brain is one, and excuse me that I can't remember the exact country that is doing this but it isnt the U.S., where they are attempting to build a super computer with one cpu core to correspond with every neuron in the brain! That would be of very practical use. the cores could be connected like neurons and patterned after our currrent map of the brain and then you can turn off groups of cores and see what happens. The cores wouldn't have to be cutting edge either so you could purchase 5 year old obsolete ones by the bucketful (it would still take up a huge amount of space)

An electronic computer or computer network has little in common functionally or structurally with an organic brain. Brains are not really computers. The closest analogy might be to a threshold logic circuit and that is a stretch.

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the one brain study that I find, conceptually, extremely interesting and to hold the most possibility for our understanding of the brain is one, and excuse me that I can't remember the exact country that is doing this but it isnt the U.S., where they are attempting to build a super computer with one cpu core to correspond with every neuron in the brain! That would be of very practical use. the cores could be connected like neurons and patterned after our currrent map of the brain and then you can turn off groups of cores and see what happens. The cores wouldn't have to be cutting edge either so you could purchase 5 year old obsolete ones by the bucketful (it would still take up a huge amount of space)

This is the closest thing I could find:

http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program

Darrell

I do believe that that was it. Thanks, I hadn't read about this in years

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