Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia) and hypnopompia are experiences a person can go through when falling asleep in the case of hypnagogia, or waking up, in the case of hypnopompia. When in a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnagogic hallucinations), perhaps even ( Read more... )

HANNUKAHSTRAVAGANZA:
DREIDELS, STRUDELS, NOODLES, AND BEER

Not black enough for Kwanzaa?
Have hyped controversies killed your Christmas spirit?
Do you find big schnozzes hot?

WELL HAVE NO FEAR...
~ HANNUKAH IS HERE ~

The first annual Maxi Pad
Hannukahstravaganza: Dreidels, Strudels, Noodles, And BeerFriday, December 16th 2005 ( Read more... )

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried
bacon.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

I wanted to share this article with those on my friends list are interested in developmental neurobiology and its interactive implications on the field of evolutionary psychology ( Read more... )

First documented case of passing on knowledge of tool use in marine animals: this one is for you Stefan.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/neuroethology/4383.html?style=mine#cutid1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4566319.stmRead more... )

Water Aerobics at the YMCA
by Margaret McLeod

We struggle against gravity,
mostly graying, mostly overweight.
We hop backwards as instructed,
in sudden kinship with crustaceans,
Hot crawdad mamas jetting out of danger,
ghost shrimp scooting back to shelter -
We are the known ridiculous,
time lost and less remaining.

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whats your favorite quote?

I saw something on the neuroscience community today that I thought was kind of interesting: apparently scientists at Stanford have found that mifepristone (yes, the abortifacient) can be used as an effective treatment for psychotic depression because it blocks cortisol receptors ( Read more... )

"The deficiencies in our description would probably vanish if we were already in a position to replace the psychological terms with physiological or chemical ones...We may expect physiology and chemistry to give the most surprising information and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years of questions we have put to it. They ( Read more... )