NPR Science Friday Two Personalities, One Brain? (DID)

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Postby Project Willow » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:12 pm

Thanks MinM.

Here are some quotes from Ms. Steele:

Well, that was back in 1999, and I would say between 1999 and 2009 we've amassed a huge amount of data from neuroscience that says that there are particular ways that the brain functions or actually malfunctions in disassociation that are very unique.

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So there are those studies and then from those arose studies in the neurobiology of dissociation, which is very distinct, and there are at least four studies that I'm aware of, three FMRI studies and one PET study PET scan study - that actually show in dissociative identity disorder that there are distinctive patterns of brain activity between one self and another self, from one personal and another.

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Well, I understand what hes saying. And I would like to continue to make a distinction between these public, fictionalized to some degree, accounts of DID. And what we see in clinical practice what people actually experienced objectively and what the science says. I mean, there isn't way to for a fad to show up, I think, on a functional MRI or on a PET scan. And so, I think we were drilling down to some real questions about how is self formed, and what is it that's happening in the brain when people say that they switch from one part to another, something is clearly happening that cannot be reproduced by controls.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:28 pm

Thats a pretty important point PW, thats why that study linked from Swinburne is such a good one.

Groundbreaking even.
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Postby MinM » Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:14 pm

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Neuroscientists And Magicians Mingle At Conference : NPR
So, Laura Sanders, what do magicians and neuroscientists have in common? I want to know about this.

Ms. SANDERS: Well, yeah, you wouldn't necessarily think of it right off the bat, but they both share a complete fascination with the human brain. Scientists, of course, want to study it and figure out how it works. Magicians, though, want to trick it and make it believe the impossible. So the reason that the magicians were invited to this meeting is that a lot of scientists, and neuroscientists in particular, started realizing that these magicians have a huge wealth of information. And they've honed these tricks over hundreds of years and tested it out in front of audiences all over the world. So they're good. They're good and tricking the brain, and neuroscientists want to know how they do that.

PALCA: Right. So I mean, I guess there's some serious things about consciousness and attention and things that you can learn from tricking the brain.

Ms. SANDERS: Yeah. One of the main things that they talked about, these two magicians that performed, a big, important thing was attention and how they're able to kind of twist your attention and manipulate it. One of the magicians, Apollo Robins(ph), when he started talking, you know, there was this big spotlight on the front of the stage, and he was nowhere to be found. And he said, you know, spotlights point out something that you should be looking at, and that's where your attention goes, but here he was, off in the shadow. I think at that point, he was actually pilfering through the pockets of some of the attendees and stealing their wallets and watches, and yeah
Science Friday Archives: Neuroscience Meeting Highlights

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RFK Signing Poster In Pantry - The Education Forum

John Mulholland Master Magician Recruited by Sid Gottlieb's TSS MKULTRA - The Education Forum
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Jack Ruby and the Dallas Magicians - The Education Forum
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Postby MinM » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:53 pm

Science Friday had a couple other interesting shows in the past month:
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Making Memories With Fruit Flies : NPR
Researchers have used pulses of light to store the memory of a bad event that never actually happened into the brains of fruit flies. Writing this week in the journal Cell, the researchers describe their success in directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons responsible for associating a certain odor with a bad experience.

By introducing chemicals into those neurons when the odor was present, the researchers found that they could produce flies that 'remembered' experiencing an electric shock connected to the odor, although no actual shock was present. We'll talk about the work and what it means...
Science Friday Archives: Creating Memories

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Neuroscientists And Magicians Mingle At Conference : NPR
So, Laura Sanders, what do magicians and neuroscientists have in common? I want to know about this.

Ms. SANDERS: Well, yeah, you wouldn't necessarily think of it right off the bat, but they both share a complete fascination with the human brain. Scientists, of course, want to study it and figure out how it works. Magicians, though, want to trick it and make it believe the impossible. So the reason that the magicians were invited to this meeting is that a lot of scientists, and neuroscientists in particular, started realizing that these magicians have a huge wealth of information. And they've honed these tricks over hundreds of years and tested it out in front of audiences all over the world. So they're good. They're good and tricking the brain, and neuroscientists want to know how they do that.

PALCA: Right. So I mean, I guess there's some serious things about consciousness and attention and things that you can learn from tricking the brain.

Ms. SANDERS: Yeah. One of the main things that they talked about, these two magicians that performed, a big, important thing was attention and how they're able to kind of twist your attention and manipulate it. One of the magicians, Apollo Robins(ph), when he started talking, you know, there was this big spotlight on the front of the stage, and he was nowhere to be found. And he said, you know, spotlights point out something that you should be looking at, and that's where your attention goes, but here he was, off in the shadow. I think at that point, he was actually pilfering through the pockets of some of the attendees and stealing their wallets and watches, and yeah
Science Friday Archives: Neuroscience Meeting Highlights

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RFK Signing Poster In Pantry - The Education Forum

Eric Kandel Reminisces About Memory : NPR
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. I'm Ira Flatow. Up next, the star of a new movie who, in all likelihood, will never be mistaken for George Clooney. But then again, George Clooney will never win a Nobel Prize.

My next guest has spent the last 50 years studying the molecular basis of memory in sea slugs and mice. You know him. He's won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Most people would slow down after all of that, but he's not taking a break.

Dr. Eric Kandel is senior investigator with the CIA front: Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He's a university professor at Columbia University and the Fred Kavli Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. And his movie is premiering. Is it tonight, Dr. Kandel?

Dr. ERIC KANDEL (Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute for Brain Science): Tonight, tonight.

FLATOW: Tonight. "In Search of Memory." Where is it premiering?

Dr. KANDEL: The International Film Center on 6th Avenue and 3rd Street.

FLATOW: And why a new movie at this point in your career?

Dr. KANDEL: I didn't think of it as a new point in my career or as a new movie. I wrote a book called "In Search of Memory," and Petra Seeger, the filmmaker, read the book, liked it, and asked me whether I would be interested in doing a documentary. And my wife and I had planned to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary with our children and grandchildren by taking a sentimental journey through the places where we were born and we were raised, including hiding in the South of France for (unintelligible), Hitler-occupied Vienna for me, and we suggested she come along.

So this was a family trip, and she came along and she very creatively switched back and forth between autobiographical aspects of my life and what is happening in my lab. She came and she visited the lab for a week.

So it was really effortless. There was no script. There was no rehearsal. Nothing was done twice, and even though I was intensely uncomfortable the first time I saw the film - have you even been in a movie? It's...

What we found is that when you produce a short-term memory, it not only establishes a functional change, but it sends a signal back to the nucleus to turn on genes, and these genes turn on other genes that give rise to proteins that give rise to the growth of new synaptic connections.

So you can actually follow the movement of molecules from the nucleus out to the synapse. It's a communication between the nucleus and the synapse...

Science Friday Archives: Eric Kandel
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Re: NPR Science Friday Two Personalities, One Brain? (DID)

Postby MinM » Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:14 pm

Pretty good episode of Nova last night in which they make the claim that just the very act of remembering alters or corrupts our memories...

NOVA ‏@novapbs 21 hours ago

Memories are constantly being rewritten. Find out how with "Memory Hackers," 9/8c @PBS: http://to.pbs.org/1TGyRi1
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