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Housing and Development Newsletter “The probability of events affects our sense of causation in a strange way,” Quillien explained. Say a professor, Carl, wants funding for a project. His request is reviewed by his department chairs, Alice and Bill, both of whom have to approve it. Alice approves nearly every application, but Bill is notorious for rejecting most of them. The question is, if Carl receives his funding, who’s most responsible? Most people would say Bill caused Carl’s reque...

What causes the characteristic slowing of movement in patients with Parkinson’s disease? EEG recordings from the brains of Parkinson’s patients may offer some answers, according to researchers, in Electrical oscillations of nerve cells deep inside the brain and the cortex are pathologically coupled with one another. Researchers know this from recordings taken from the brains of Parkinson’s patients during surgery to fit a brain pacemaker. But is it possible to detect this coupling if the...

 E-Mail Like a parent being pestered with endless questions from a young child, most people will now and again find themselves following an infinite chain of cause and effect when considering what led to some particular event. And while many factors can contribute to an event, we often single out only a few as its causes. So how do we decide? Thats the topic of a recent paper by Tadeg Quillien, a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The study, published in th...

Mydecine Innovations Group Partners with Microdose Psychedelic Insights to Present a Free, Live Webinar Series on The Renaissance of Psychedelics Mydecine Innovations Group an emerging biopharma and life sciences company committed to the research, development, and acceptance of alternative nature-sourced therapeutic medicine for mainstream use, announced today that the Company has partnered with Microdose Psychedelic Insights a leader in B2B psychedelic intelligence, to present a free, three-pa...

Week. today the president ha his attention on a much different subject. what goes on inside our minds. he wants congress to spend millions of dollars on brain research. lisa sylvester is here to explain what this money hopefully would buy. what does the president want? >> wolf, much the way researchers were able to map the human genome, scientists are hoping to develop actually a map of the brain. and to one day be able to turn on or off certain cells and cure diseases. the white house is back...