Featured Thoughts, News and Microarticles from the Scientific Community.
Individuality and the physical paradigm
Claus Janew–Mar 5, 2010
This blog entry relates to the paper Dynamic Existence. The physical paradigm contains serious distortions or inconsistencies: The Brain is seen as the ultimate "perceiver". But who perceives the brain? The brain again? This is a circle, where my co...(Read more)
Graeme Smith–Jan 20, 2010
Recent research has shown that facilitation follows attention in the Cerebral Cortex. In order to understand why this might be, it is important to recognize the fact that the 40 hertz signal noted in a recent article on anesthesia, and Facilitation m...(Read more)
Paul O'Donohoe–Jan 12, 2010
The open access "movement" has existed for decades, but with the coming of the digital age in the 90's it truly bloomed as the distribution cost of electronic media dropped to essentially nothing. Some groups completely embraced the paradigm-shifting...(Read more)
Psychoneuroimmunology discussion group
Peter Todd–Jan 14, 2010
I have just completed my personal profile for membership of the proposed psychoneuroimmunology discussion group within ResearchGATE. This interdisciplinary science which emerged from the field of psychosomatic research, was founded by such pioneers a...(Read more)
The future school – what can it be like?
Victor Gargay–Jan 12, 2010
The future school is a school for a pupil. The educational institution monopoly will give way to monopoly of self educating person. It's up to him/her to solve as to what and how to learn. Adults - wise and careful instructors - help the growing pers...(Read more)
A possible role for the anterior cingulate cortex in hypnosis
Graeme Smith–Jan 2, 2010
In my memory model, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is connected to many areas in the cerebral cortex, by a backbone network that seems to extend down both sides of the central fissure, as referenced in recent works on connectomics. It's role, se...(Read more)
Biodiversity and stability of ecosystems
Sergei Ostroumov–Dec 28, 2009
The role of biodiversity in benefiting stability of ecosystems is a matter of a hot dispute.The matter of stability of ecosystems is very important as it is a part of stability of the biosphere at the time of hazards of global change. Not much is...(Read more)
Phosphorylation, the link between Bipolar and Schizophrenia
Graeme Smith–Dec 17, 2009
When people think of Circadian Rhythms, they think of sleep cycles, or those silly Bio-rhythm horoscopes in the newspaper. Recently however science has shown that even cyanobacteria have clock-like systems in their cells. A recent article on CAIK in...(Read more)
ResearchBLOG: The very best of November
Bertalan Mesko–Dec 5, 2009
When Lindsay Kallis and me wrote our first entries for the official blog of ResearchGATE, we were really excited and also a bit worried because we knew well how hard it is to start a new blog and provide relevant, quality entries. An excerpt from my...(Read more)
200 repetative vulnerabilities in the Human Genome
Graeme Smith–Nov 22, 2009
The human genome has the capability to code for literally thousands of different protiens. It will be years, working our way through the genome linking it to biochemical processes in the body, and learning from them what the mechanisms are for the ma...(Read more)
Did we make any significant in-roads into the health effects research of non-ionizing radiation?
Andrew Cutz–Nov 19, 2009
Twenty years ago I published a little known review paper titled "Effects of microwave radiation on the eye: the occupational health perspective" (A. Cutz, Lens and Eye Toxicity Research. 01/02/1989; 6(1-2): 379-86). Today I ask you ... "Did we make a...(Read more)
Raziq Kakar–Nov 18, 2009
The camel plays a pivotal role in the life of the pastoral people, browse scanty vegetation and produce where other livestock species cannot survive. The camel is used for milk, meat, draught, riding, racing, recreation, wool, hides and prestige in P...(Read more)
Pelham Mead–Nov 17, 2009
It never ceased to amaze me how many social networking programs have developed in the last few years. Everything from Facebook to Youtube, Wikipedia, and many other networking programs to many to mention have developed to keep people in touch with on...(Read more)
Constraint Based Architecture for Artificial Consciousness
Graeme Smith–Nov 17, 2009
Jerry Fodor, published a book called The Mind Doesn't Work That Way! in around 2000 or thereabouts in which he published some discussion on the scope and limitations of Computational Psychology. In it he suggested that Neural Network architectures ha...(Read more)
Lindsay Kallis–Nov 12, 2009
Science is changing. Collective knowledge has expanded to the point where it is both being shaped by and is shaping the technological tools and applications we use. Designed by researchers, ResearchGATE is an innovative platform that was developed to...(Read more)
