Tag Archives: mind & brain

Music & Brain Disorders

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

Oliver Sacks has a translated article in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Rundschau, simply entitled “Holiday Sounds”.  It’s an anecdotal piece about cases he’s observed of patients with the most severe brain disorders who still respond to music.  Here are some … Continue reading →

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Mind-body

Posted on November 1, 2008 by

When I was an undergraduate and graduate student in sociology in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a work in the history of science that was already near canonical authority.  It postulated … Continue reading →

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Emotions: Love and Hate

Posted on November 1, 2008 by

An interesting report in the Independent, 29 October, by science editor Steve Connor on a neurophysiological  finding that love and hatred share the same brain circuitry.  What is more large areas of the cerebral cortex associated with judgment and reasoning … Continue reading →

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