#brain activity

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Zombie Cult Massacre (1998)

[poeticallylazyaf07]

A plant with no stalk or leaf,

A soul that leaves with no one's grief.

A wooden chest with no hidden treasure,

Has life been robbed of all pleasure?

A sea that changes its current to too often,

Even if it wishes, for nobody does it soften.

A singer to whom there is no one to listen,

For whatever future, do we have a vision?

A child left astray in a crowd,

Clouds covering the sky; the storm is too loud.

A therapist with no lending ears

To assure her, "For you, I'm here."

An idol with an unfortunate past,

The ignored member of a movie cast.

A relationship given up too fast,

Perhaps if they tried, for ever could they last.

Things so easily discarded,

Women and men walk back home, broken hearted.

Is this what we call society and home?

Where in a world full of people, you're all alone?

Love,

Anonymous.

[intellectual6666]

OK guys, I just learned a thing. So basically, there's a part of the brain which identifies or easily feels whether the thing near you is an object or a living being. If you're walking down a street, the activation of that part of the brain increases if you feel a living breathing thing near you. And if you look at a non living thing, the activation decreases. NOW HERE COMES THE THING. When a man looks at a woman on the street even with slightest provocative clothes (according to them) or in some specific posture, the activation of that part of the brain DECREASES. And their brain objectifies them. So like, they no longer identify them as a living being and see them as an object. NOW when people are like "oh they objectify women", it's totally TRUE because their brain identifies them as an object rather than a living being with thoughts and emotions.

[cbirt]

The Brain Language Model (BrainLM), a foundation model for brain activity dynamics trained on 6,700 hours of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, was introduced by researchers at Yale University. Through self-supervised masked-prediction training, BrainLM exhibits high performance on zero-shot inference and fine-tuning tasks.

Accurate prediction of future brain states and clinical variables such as age, anxiety, and PTSD are made possible by fine-tuning. Importantly, the BrainLM performance was admirable when applied to completely fresh external cohorts that were not present during training. BrainLM does not require network-based supervision during training to identify intrinsic functional networks straight from raw fMRI data while operating in zero-shot inference mode. 

Additionally, the model produces interpretable latent representations that show connections between patterns of brain activity and states of cognition. BrainLM provides a flexible and understandable framework for clarifying the intricate spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity in humans. It acts as a potent “lens” that allows large-scale fMRI data banks to be analyzed in novel ways, leading to more efficient interpretation and application. The research shows how foundation models can be used to further computational neuroscience studies.

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[nice-bright-colors]

This morning I dreamt of you. The softness of your hair, the warmth of your smile, and the kindness in your eyes.

I miss you. I miss the generosity of your heart, the joy in your laughter, and the sound of your voice.

Yet we have never met, nor had we spoken before.

[bpod-bpod]

Sign of Activity

A virtual reality-trained deep-learning tool called DELiVR detects cells expressing a protein called c-Fos in cleared mouse brain tissue and maps them to the Allen Brain Atlas. c-Fos-positive cells are taken as a sign of neuronal activity and the team use DELiVR to investigate cancer-related brain activity

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Doris Kaltenecker, Rami Al-Maskari & Moritz Negwer, and colleagues

Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC), Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU, Munich, Germany

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Methods, April 2024

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this came to me in a dream. zombie apocalypse but for some reason it's a slapstick comedy

[likenothings]

[wayti-blog]

The art and science of the human brain

Delicate Neural Choreographies: "Self Reflected" by Dr. Greg Dunn and Dr. Brian Edwards

"[...] it is possible to use science or engineering as the starting points to create artworks that are completely based on fantasy. Yet, it is also possible to create pieces that are completely based on science and that look like fascinating works of art. "Self Reflected" (2019-2022) by Dr. Greg Dunn in collaboration with Dr. Brian Edwards is the perfect example."

""Self Reflected" is a visually bright work of elegance and beauty that pulsates with mesmerizing lights and wavelike electrical activity and its merit stands in the fact that it provides us with an immediate picture of the human brain.

The artwork makes it easier to grab the vastness and beautiful organization of the brain and lets us understand the complexity behind it not with difficult scientific explanations, but with immediate and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this piece."

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[atomiccalamari]

sometimes i wonder how many mad scientists had bipolar disorder like maybe frankenstein just needed some more lithium in his bloodstream to not be compelled to manipulate life itself

[slippyjimm]

Rosemary by Deftones pls stimulate brain activity 🙏

[videoreligion]

Zombie Cult Massacre (1998)

[timmurleyart]

Fitbit in yer skull. 💀🧠🤖🕹⚡️

[whats-in-a-sentence]

A different level of brain activity is required for each response: the mammalian fight-or-flight system, which is protective and keeps us from shutting down, and the reptilian brain, which produces the collapse response.

"The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma" - Bessel van der Kolk

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[wonderyoumustknow]

Inside the Mind: How fMRI Brain Scans Reveal Thoughts

Would you want technology that reads emotions? Explore how fMRI sheds light on thoughts and feelings.

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