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Spiritual therapy psychology and neuroscience literatures needed?

I heard on the radio, last week, that when a person smokes a cigarette for the first time or two, your brain literally creates "nicotine receptors," that seem to be the reason addictions are formed.

Your brain literally gets built to WANT cigarettes, hence the almost impossible task of quitting smoking, after one starts.

So I'm wondering -- what other brain cell formations are happening within us, that keep us addicted? Addicted to the status quo, for instance? Why do some people fear taking chances, when others do not? Why are some more able than others to think, or see, beyond yesterday, and into tomorrow?

Why do some people seem to be able to envision new realities, that are still unseen to the naked eye, while others seem to imagine new realities almost continually?

If Leadership, by definition, means "moving" (if you're not going somewhere, then how can you be leading anything?) - then why do people often get stuck in yesterday, and are not able to move into today, or tomorrow?

I would love to see any latest brain research on this topic.

Thank you,

Eric

For many centuries those concerned with human behaviour have identified the process of forming categories of our sensory experiences as being basic to how we experience the world. We do not experience the world as a series of unique events but understand experiences within a perhaps hierarchical framework of categories. Does anyone have any knowledge about neuroscience research into the human (and other animal) capacity to form categories?

We normally focus on the enteric nervous system development; however our recent transgenic mice showed some abnormalities on synaptic formation. The antibody I used to look at the synaptic formation is Synaptotagmin. In the mutant one, Synaptotagmin is sometimes trapped in the neuronal cell body, I have no idea if it is associated with synaptic formation or axonal transition.

This is not a question.

This is the partial map for "pattern formation" topic.

Sorry - we are training in mapping research topics, doing it completely free of charge and now trying on your project.

The full map consists of articles with basic knowledge on topic, articles with novelty, terms, subtopics. For this topice information is not enough.

The results depend on the query that is being made to the Web of Science. So, if you correct our query, we will recount.

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You will do us a favor if you ask to draw a map of any other topic.

file topic_report.docx = 20 topics from 1821 articles which have words

"Pattern Formation"

in their titles. Each topic is represented through 20 words and 20 thrases with which it is discussed in these articles. Really this terms are the names of methods, objects, properties, laws and so on for topic in question. In addition each topic has quotes from two articles in which it is most manifested.

The full query to Web of Sciences:

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People with DS have special needs and skills. I am looking for further information in research. Topics: Spirituality, Coping with DS, Religion

Protein X is a synaptic protein.

CRISPR was perform and a frameshift with an insertion was obtained that resulted in a null KO and HZ KO. Protein was quantified using western blot to check in the null KO and no protein was found. Since it was the same mutation, it was assumed that the heterozygous KO also worked. Sequencing and quality contro were fine.

We performed electrophysiology and got no differences between WT and HZ. Moreover, synaptic staining showed that X was the same in HZ and WT. However, the KO had no protein X.

Now we are looking at the western blot, and it seems that HZ and WT have similar protein levels (not confirmed yet as it hasn't been quanitfied)

A previous paper reported 30% reduction in HZ condition as compared to wild type.

Is it possible that dose compensation is occurring here? it's non X chromosome gene. What are the other possibilites?

*We are also re-sequencing the lines now.

Hello,

My name is Thaise and I am doctorate student at the Federal University of Bahia. I'm working with neuroscience and Altered State of Consciusness (ASC). I am looking for an EEG data set recorded with participants during ASC or in trance (mediumship), or having spiritual experience, speaking with spirits and / or in disorder of consciousness.

Can someone help me, please?

Thanks,

Thaise Toutain

Federal University of Bahia

Institute of Health Sciences

How does Epigenetics impact on Habit Formation or Stoppage of an Addiction?

Nerodegenerative diseases are accompanied by amyloid fibril formation with the oligomers of these proteins exerting neurotoxic effects. In a recently published article, Ajda Taler-Vercic and Eva Zerovnik take a closer look at these proteins. They not only speculate on the general roles of domain-swapped dimers but also hypothezise on how binding of amyloid peptides to domain-swapped dimers may prevent neurotoxicity.

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