๐ Slime Design Mimics Tokyo’s Rail System: Efficient Methods Of A Slime Mold Could Inform Human Engineers In the next Strongfit podcast i will go over non-objective based searches. In the A.I world iโs called the Novelty...
๐ Cueing Attention After The Stimulus Is Gone Can Retrospectively Trigger Conscious Perception Is our perceptual experience of a stimulus entirely determined during the early buildup of the sensory representation, within 100 to...
๐ ๐ฌ Functional MRI In The Investigation Of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury This review focuses on the application of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to the investigation of blast-related traumatic brain injury...
๐ Physical, Psychological And Emotional Benefits Of Green Physical Activity: An Ecological Dynamics Perspective Increasing evidence supports the multiple benefits to physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing of green physical activity, a topic of increasing...
๐ Low Vagal Tone Magnifies The Association Between Psychosocial Stress Exposure And Internalizing Psychopathology In Adolescents Vagal tone is a measure of cardiovascular function that facilitates adaptive responses to environmental challenge. Low vagal tone is associated...
๐ Heart Rate In Relation To Insulin Sensitivity And Insulin Secretion In Nondiabetic Subjects OBJECTIVE โ Elevated heart rate has been predictive of cardiovascular disease and has been proposed as a global index of...
๐ Cortisol Rapidly Affects Amplitudes Of Heartbeat-Evoked Brain Potentials โ Implications For The Contribution Of Stress To An Altered Perception Of Physical Sensations? Interoception, the perception of bodily processes, plays an important role in the subjective experience of emotions (Wiens, 2005), in consciousness...
๐Neural Responses To Heartbeats In The Default Network Encode The Self In Spontaneous Thoughts Selfhood and autonomic regulation are linked in the Task Negative Network.So our sense of self would be an extension of...
๐ The Vagus Nerve Can Predict And Possibly Modulate Non- Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing A Neuroimmunological Paradigm To Public Health Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share...
๐ The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate NonCommunicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share...
๐ BACK TO REALITY ON A TRAIN OF THOUGHT TOWARDS A SOUND SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW What is time? What is space? What makes up matter? What is life? What is consciousness? These fundamental questions may...
๐ Emerging Roles For The Gut Microbiome In Autism Spectrum Disorder I donโt know if you guys are interested in all the papers out there but here is an interesting one...
๐ The Antidepressant-Like Effect Of Lactate In An Animal Model Of Menopausal Depression The World Health Organization recently published a report indicating that major depressive disorders (MDD) are affecting 322 million people all...
๐Antagonistic Neural Networks Underlying Differentiated Leadership Roles This is a great paper on the relationship Task Negative Network (DMN) and Task Positive Network. It will explain more...
๐ Characterization Of The Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System The heart is supplied and controlled by centrally derived sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The classical augmenting influence of sympathetic inputs...
๐ Heart Rate Variability And Cardiac Vagal Tone In Psychophysiological Research โ Recommendations For Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, And Data Reporting Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV...
๐Identifying Large-Scale Neural Networks Using fMRI Contrary to the DMN, the CEN, also known as the โcognitive-controlโ or โtask-positiveโ network, is most active during cognitive tasks...
๐ Autonomic Adjustments To Exercise In Humans However, perhaps the most notable difference between dynamic and isometric exercise is the pressor response, which occurs to a much...
๐ Physarum Polycephalum Our friend from the Tokyo Subway system is quite amazing. Read the article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum
๐ The Yin And Yang Of Cardiac Autonomic Control: Vago-Sympathetic Interactions Revisited Very interesting paper about the co-activation of Para-Sympathetic & Sympathetic nervous activity relating to the heart. As you can see...
๐ Is The Cardiac Monitoring Function Related To The Self In Both The Default Network And Right Anterior Insula? So here is another paper sent to me by Daniel. This is another major step forward, it basically establishes that...
๐ Relative Abundance Of Akkermansia Spp. And Other Bacterial Phylotypes Correlates With Anxiety- And Depressive-Like Behavior Following Social Defeat In Mice As discussion of stress and stress-related disorders rapidly extends beyond the brain, gut microbiota have emerged as a promising contributor...
๐ Circadian Disruption In Psychiatric Disorders Nearly all psychiatric disorders present with circadian disruption, such as abnormalities in the timing of the sleep-wake cycle, core body...
๐Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What Theyโre Saying Interesting article Go past the Alzheimer, Autism, etc… reference and just look at the relationship gut flora – nervous system...
๐ EMERGENT TOOL USE FROM MULTI-AGENT AUTOCURRICULA Creating intelligent artificial agents that can solve a wide variety of complex human-relevant tasks has been a long-standing challenge in...
๐๐ฌ Effects Of Dietary Monosaccharides On Sympathetic Nervous System Activity In Adipose Tissues Of Male Rats Dietary carbohydrate activates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). As the mechanisms underlying this response are not fully characterized, studies were...
๐ Bacteria Contradict Darwin: Survival Of The Friendliest New microbial research at the University of Copenโ hagen suggests that ‘survival of the friendliest’ outโ weighs ‘survival of the...
๐ CHRONICALLY INCREASED ACTIVITY OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: OUR DIET-RELATED โEVOLUTIONARYโ INHERITANCE The importance of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease (CVD), like essential hypertension, atherosclerosis and...
๐ The Timing Of Mental Events: Libetโs Experimental Findings And Their Implications The major findings by Libet et al. are briefly summarized. The criticisms and alternative proposals by Trevena and Miller, Pockett,...
๐ Visceral Influences On Precision-Weighted Inference Because interoception and Active Inference is the key to the whole system. Visceral influences on precision-weighted inference. (a) Under the...
๐๐ฌTryptophan Metabolic Pathways And Brain Serotonergic Activity: A Comparative Review Soooooo Trp (tryptophan) kills the Fight mode… โThere is a general consensus that low levels of central 5-HT are associated...
๐ UNIVERSE, LIFE, CONSCIOUSNESS For many years, cosmologists believed that the universe from the very beginning looked like an expanding ball of fire. This...
๐ Stress Is Suggested To Lead To Metabolic Dysregulations – But The Underlying Biological Mechanisms Are Not Yet Well Understood Obesity and the collapse of the Arch. โthese results suggest that especially the combination of increased SNS activity and decreased...
๐ Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction This was pointed to me on another post. Btw it shows a behavior coherent with Bayesian Inference, belief vs observations...
๐๐ฌA Neural Substrate Of Prediction And Reward The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the causal structure of its interactions...
๐ Increased Sympathetic And Decreased Parasympathetic Activity Rather Than Changes In Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity Is Associated With Metabolic Abnormalities Obesity and the collapse of the Arch. โthese results suggest that especially the combination of increased SNS activity and decreased...
๐ Lactate: The Ultimate Cerebral Oxidative Energy Substrate? The controversy surrounding the role lactate plays, if any, in the adult brain is as ferocious as any other past...
๐๐ฌ Brain Areas And Pathways In The Regulation Of Glucose Metabolism Glucose is the most important source of fuel for the brain and its concentration must be kept within strict boundaries...
๐๐ฌThe Hidden Value Of Organizational HealthโAnd How To Capture It – McKinsey & Company This is fascinating on many levels. This is the model we will be using for the Evolved Affiliation to do...
๐๐ฌDorsal And Ventral Attention Systems More than a decade ago, Corbetta and Shulman published their influential review article in which they introduced the concept of...