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Step One in Fixing the Brain: Understand How It Works

Step One in Fixing the Brain: Understand How It Works | Neuroanthropology | Scoop.it
From www.huffingtonpost.com - December 10, 2012 4:01 PM
To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

 

Sebastian Seung at MIT crowd sources his cataloguing of the retina.

 

When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke? How can my son overcome his dyslexia? What could have caused my best friend to become schizophrenic? When I can't give satisfying answers, they look disappointed -- and I feel embarrassed. To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

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On Forming a Digital Anthropology Group | Neuroanthropology

On Forming a Digital Anthropology Group | Neuroanthropology | Neuroanthropology | Scoop.it
From blogs.plos.org - November 25, 2012 9:34 PM

"We encourage the Executive Board to consider how to support anthropologists working online, and to encourage further online collaboration and dissemination among AAA members. This will strengthen the discipline, and also permit more timely discussion and engagement among AAA members…

We view our online role as anthropologists as contributing a valuable service to the discipline we love. We are hopeful that this episode in our shared history will prove to catalyze important and inclusive dialogue regarding who we are as anthropologists as well as the channels we use to communicate with one another. We encourage the EB and the AAA membership as a whole to participate in this online community, to hear and join with the voices that are coming from within our discipline. This is an opportunity to move past marginalization and work together toward rebuilding a truly interdisciplinary anthropology based on mutual respect."


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