Thank you for your kind attention...

Halfway to Christmas!!  I am enjoying the light and the warmth and beauty of these fine fall days.

I hope you are finding our study of the brain an interesting endeavor, and that your mind is expanding even as you practice discerning the difference between a supported scientific claim  and what is really only an opinion--and also telling the difference between a good and bad opinion.  I am fine with you having your own as you seek both wisdom and truth.

I would love to hear what your opinion is, especially as you look at some of the new studies on the teenage brain.  Agree/disagree??  There are six segments to the long video, and the first is really annoying, but don't give up, it should pick up.

Happy diligent studying.
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Current Events:  10 years ago we finished mapping the human genome, now underway is an effort to map the neural connections of the brain.  It's called the Connectome.

1. The human connectome. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain when it is at rest (sometimes called resting state fMRI) has emerged as a powerful approach for detecting correlations of large, infrequent fluctuations in activity levels across functionally related brain areas. A collaboration across 35 laboratories in 10 countries compared patterns of brain-function connection (called connectomes) in 1,414 volunteers, yielding harmonized brain maps based on age and gender.² As with the human genome, this functional connectome is important not only for providing a reference wiring map of the human brain, but also demonstrating intriguing, stable individual differences. New projects on the human connectome, supported via the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, will be exploring individual differences and developing more precise tools for measuring connections in the human brain. http://www.humanconnectome.org/consortia/