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Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception
A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain receives.

"A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts. "

Neurologists locate present-at-hand in the brain.


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WIRED · Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious PerceptionBy Jorge Garay
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Science Updates

"Our study reveals that a combination of genetic factors plays a role in the manifestation of diseases like Parkinson's disease, which means that therapeutic targeting of several key pathways will have to be considered for such disorders," said corresponding study author Dr. Dimitri Krainc.

#genetics #science #research #neurology #Parkinsons #brain #biology #medicine

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LabrootsNovel Parkinson's Linked Genes Revealed by CRISPR | Genetics And GenomicsParkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world... | Genetics And Genomics
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MediaFaro Magazine

‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’.

Europe’s flawed oversight of pesticides may be fuelling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem.

His fight for reform pits him against industry, regulators — and time.

mediafaro.org/article/20250414

An montage of Bas Bloem, a brain scan, and a chemical model. | Image: Laura Scott
Politico.eu · ‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’.By Bartosz Brzeziński
#Parkinson#Health#BasBloem
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MediaFaro Longreads

‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’.

Europe’s flawed oversight of pesticides may be fuelling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem.

His fight for reform pits him against industry, regulators — and time.

mediafaro.org/article/20250414

An montage of Bas Bloem, a brain scan, and a chemical model. | Image: Laura Scott
Politico.eu · ‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’.By Bartosz Brzeziński
#Parkinson#Health#BasBloem
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Flipboard Science Desk

If you made a list of things that could advance the field of science, having a mouse watch “The Matrix” and “Star Wars” probably wouldn’t make it to the top. And yet, scientists recently were able to map and render into a 3D atlas a small portion of a mouse’s brain about the size of a grain of sand. The results were a revelation. “"A millimeter seems small, but within that millimeter there are kilometers of wiring," Jacob Reimer, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine said. Read more from @LiveScience, including the role those movies played:

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Live Science · Scientists built largest brain 'connectome' to date by having a lab mouse watch 'The Matrix' and 'Star Wars'By Kamal Nahas
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"And this is where we come to our current Secretary of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr. He points at the increase in children diagnosed with autism as a crisis in need of a solution. He blames vaccines for our “disability,” flying fearlessly away from the current scientific consensus. This is incredibly damaging to us, as individuals and as a community, regardless of age or severity.

The vast majority of us -- assuming that we don’t also have other, more disabling conditions -- do not want to be seen as suffering from a mistake. We are who we are not because of vaccines or bad mothering. Our existence is a feature, not a bug. Genetics is the primary cause of autism, if you want to understand why it happened to this or that individual. More generally, autism is one of the ways to be human. The idea that autism can be cured or overcome is as insulting as the idea that gay people can be cured or that to be successful women should act more like men. We don’t want to be cured; we want to be accepted and allowed to be who we are. RFK Jr. stands for the opposite of that. Whether he understands it or not, he is guilty of inciting hatred and self-hatred against our community.

We defy simple categorization. The vast majority of us aren’t intellectually deficient. We have all the emotions and empathize with others. We see allistic social rules and cues, body language and facial expressions, and those linguistic tics and mannerisms that enforce social pecking orders. But other things speak to us more loudly. We’re intensely curious, so we ask indelicate questions. We want to get to the heart of the matter, so we don’t pad our words with softeners. We want the world to make sense, and often go out of our way to make it so, even when those around us don’t notice, care, or do anything about it."

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The American Saga · Guest Post: One Autistic Man Explains to RFK Jr. How Autistic People Aren’t a DiseaseBy Charles Lenchner
#USA#Autism#Psychology
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