Daniel Siegel: A System's View of Disintegration & Integration (He's still cute, he's still brilliant, he speaks in easy-to-remember aphorisms and he's still heartful. What's not to like?) "Integration is the linking of differentiated parts. The concept is useful for ass...

Day 1: Bessel van der Kolk is lovely. He's humble, he's funny, and he is the premiere researcher on the neurobiology and/or efficacy of trauma treatments in the world. And cute and brilliant, of course. Here are nearly random gems from 3 hours of notes: With trauma, there are no stories, onl...

Neuroscience and the soul, via Andrew Sullivan: A new challenge to the science-religion relationship is currently at hand. We hope that, with careful consideration by scientists and theologians, it will not become the latest front in what some have called the “culture war� between science and re...

Ninja thinks the ability of the body to adapt is marvellous. She shares highlights from New Scientist’s January 07 2009 article about the technology being developed to provide better prosthetics. The human body proves even more interesting as we listen to one blind man’s ability to navig...

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7892272.stm Scientists believe a common heart medicine may be able to banish fearful memories from the mind. The Dutch investigators believe beta-blocker drugs could help people suffering from the emotional after effects of traumatic experiences. They believe ...

A Brown University research team has discovered something in the brain that could serve as a target for future autism and mental retardation treatments. read more...

As I troll through some stuff for that Black Triangles follow-up post on managing innovators, the saved links are like a tsunami. Let us unspool some and maybe a pony or moonshot might pop out. How emotion and its cascade of neuro-chemicals is like a nail-gun for those post-it notes we call memories...

A sport-loving student said today that it took him just a few minutes to adapt to an advanced bionic hand fitted after he lost his own in an accident. Evan Reynolds, a sports biology student at the University of the West of England in Bristol, is one of the first people in the UK to be fitted with t...

THE BALLS OF PERCEPTION...

Draw closer around the flickering firescreen, and hear four tales of brains, words, medical improvement, and the sharp ache of the wisdom teeth of the future poking through the soft gum of the 21st century as diagnosed by Dr Sterling. Mind Bites - Flickr set of findings from neuroscience on top of b...