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| ciliary body | 2/12/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: as we know when ciliary bodies contract the ligaments will get looser and lens tend to rise its ...
A: the ciliary muscle actually is a ring surrounding the eye, so when it constricts, it releases the ...
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| How does pain decrease consciousness? | 2/11/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Dr. Schreiber: I've posted a similar question before but I don't think I asked it correctly. Sorry ...
A: I'm sorry to say that I think I understood your question when you asked it before, and the answer I ...
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| Pain-induced coma. Is this real science? | 1/30/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: The following martial arts site discusses certain techniques to incapacitate opponents. The one I ...
A: it is certainly true that traumatic injury can cause loss of consciousness and even induce coma, and ...
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| possibly a new illusion | 1/30/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: about this illusion. they are far and away the closest i have come to an answer and i think i can ...
A: that made me smile. My undergrad is in physics and my PhD in physiology with a focus on ...
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| possibly a new illusion | 1/20/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I have a question that has been burning my mind for over 15 years. I discovered in the depths of ...
A: I am sorry to say that I do not have a solid accepted answer to you. Or maybe I should put it ...
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| Left brain controlling right side of body | 1/15/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: A few years ago I heard that someone had come up with a theory about why the left brain controls the ...
A: While I do not know of any explanation for the crossover of the neural fibers conencting the brain ...
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| Neck Lump | 1/8/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I was in a car accident 2 years ago from which I sustained traumatic brain and neck injuries. About ...
A: I am sorry to say, but I am not a medical doctor, and therefore not at all qualified to answer your ...
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| Audio/Visual Hallucinations | 1/2/2007 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: A family member has asked me to research "shadow box" and "refections of the brain and nervous ...
A: I am uncertain what to tell you. I have no medical nor psychological training, and it seems to me ...
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| Preventing Neuroplasticity to give hearing to congenitally-deaf? | 12/27/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Schreiber: I hope you had a merry Christmas and I wish you a happy new year. I once asked a ...
A: neuroplasticity in general describes any process by which the configuration of neural circuits can ...
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| Psychogenic Death? | 12/24/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Sorry to keep bothering you with questions. However, I just so interested in rare occurences. I've ...
A: I think these are all valid possible pathways, though I do not think any one of them would be likely ...
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| harbingers | 12/20/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Are there any theories that have emerged from neurological research that would account for multiple ...
A: As there are, in our current scientific understanding of the world, no accepted theories for how ...
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| Is A-delta stimulation more likely to cause shock than that of C-fiber? | 12/20/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I have heard that extreme nociception can cause shock due to its affects on the autonomic nervous ...
A: while I would suspect that you guess basically right, there is a methodological problem with yourhow ...
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| What is the mechanism behind psychogenic coma? | 12/17/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: What is the mechanism behind psychogenic coma? ...
A: the short answer to that question seems to be that currently nobody really knows. It seems to me ...
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| Psychic Suicide Mechanism? | 12/17/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Just out of curiousity, what is the mechanism of "psychic suicide"? quote from ...
A: I do not think there is any solid evidence for this phenomenon to actually exist. Hypothetically, ...
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| Will it ever be possible to give congenitally-deaf individual the ability to hear? | 12/15/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: What are the chances that, in the next 20-50 years, that a congenitally-deaf individual will have a ...
A: Certainly. In fact, such an effort is well underway, see for example here ...
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| Questions About Mysterious Stimulation of A-Delta Fibers | 12/15/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I have a hypothetical question. What symptoms -- other than the obvious sharp pain -- would I ...
A: This is a difficult question to answer, because the nervous system might react qualitatively ...
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| Why does injury to spinal-cord/brain only decrease sympathetic activity? | 12/12/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I've read about injuries to the brain and spinal cord, with respect to autonomic functions. It seems ...
A: The answer to this question, I believe, lies in the anatomy of the connections of each of the two ...
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| brain models | 11/7/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I would like to ask: Are there any working computational models that mimic human thinking in the ...
A: as you may have heard said of artifical intelligence research, the hard things are easy and the easy ...
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| neurology | 11/2/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: what science project can i do that has to deal with subliminal messages?
A: that is a very open ended question. But in general, you will want to ask your subjects questions, ...
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| Neroscience | 10/30/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: What do you think would be the next advancements in the neuroscience field will be?
A: Hard to say in advance what specific breakthroughs the near future will bring. The most promising ...
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| Silent-Dreams due to brain anomaly | 10/26/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: It is possible for a non-deaf person to have totally-silent dreams [like watching TV on "mute"] due ...
A: As far as I am aware, there is no evidence in either direction on this issue. I tend to agree with ...
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| Memory Retention Process: Imagery | 10/26/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Ah, I see. Thank you sir! So synaptic changes/adjustments facilitate the process among various ...
A: Let me try and be a bit more specific: It is well known how neuronal networks can change their ...
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| Silent-Dreams due to brain anomaly | 10/25/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: It is possible for a non-deaf person to have totally-silent dreams [like watching TV on "mute"] due ...
A: I don't think much is known about the way our dreams work. Specifically questions like whether ...
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| Memory Retention Process: Imagery | 10/20/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I am interested in understanding brain functions better and the thing which I can't seem to grasp is ...
A: while there are short-term (order of minutes) memory processes in visual cortex (mainly aftereffects ...
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| Food in relation to dreams | 10/19/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I am doing a project to see of there is any relation in the foods you eat to your dreams, do you ...
A: unfortunately I don't. I do know that putting strain on your autonomic nervous system (as in eating ...
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| Speech impediment | 10/19/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: My tongue was damaged ten years ago during a routine operation. It is paralysed. I can't roll it and ...
A: sorry to hear about your misfortune. Without specific information about where the damage is located, ...
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| Learning While Sleeping?? | 10/16/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I recently heard that a person can learn languages by listning to tapes/CD's while they sleep. Is ...
A: I do not actually have any proof, but I strongly doubt such claims. It ist clear that things heard ...
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| Voluntary Pupil Dialation | 10/7/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I have an interesting "talent". I can dialate my pupils on command. It's very complicated to ...
A: There are no cases that I am aware of, and a quick literature search also turned up nothing, but it ...
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| Can foul odors actually cause an individual to faint? | 10/5/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I am well aware that extreme pain can cause an individual to faint due to its effects on his/her ...
A: I'll have to say first that I don't have formal medical training, so this is sort of the opinion of ...
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| I need help doing a serial dilution | 10/3/2006 | kaminakiba |
Q: I am an undergrad working in a lab. I need help doing a serial dilution. I have 125 ul of a 10mg/ml ...
A: A chemist would definitely have a better answer! Are you sure this is not a home work question, but ...
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| Questions about TRPV2 [VRL-1] | 9/29/2006 | kaminakiba |
Q: I have some questions regarding dermal TRPV2 [VRL-1] receptors. ...
A: "I am curious to what portions of the brain are directly involved in "VRL-1 pain" and their pathways ...
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| visual migraine (possibly) | 9/18/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Kai - I was told by a migraine sufferer that an experience I had may have been a visual migraine ...
A: Unfortunately, the best I can do, as well, is point to Migraine auras as the most likely cause of ...
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| herrmann brain dominance instrument | 8/21/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: at work, i have been asked to take the herrmann brain dominance test so as to identify how i think, ...
A: The short answer to your question is, no, there isn't. While it is true that certain functions are ...
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| education for neuroscience | 8/20/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I am a high school senior interested in the neuroscience field. In researching options for college, ...
A: I'd say that a more general undergrad program will serve you better latter on, in terms of breadt of ...
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| Illusions... | 8/6/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: Hopefully I'm not crazy...Though when I was yound I was digging through my closet and upon reaching ...
A: I can assure you that you are not crazy, even if you should turn out to be special in seeing this ...
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| electricity in the body | 7/17/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: How does electricity occur in the human body?
A: The basic mechanism is using ions (charged atoms) or other charged particles, like the negatively ...
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| ESP. etc | 7/14/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I just got back your reply: "I do not understand your question.", in reference to ...
A: While neuronal imaging in general is a methodology that has its pitfalls, in that interpreting the ...
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| neuroscience | 7/6/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: A Neuron partially consists of mylin sheath,i.e it covers the neuron in segments.Here the mylin ...
A: myelin sheathing is present not on the neuronal cell body itself, but on the axon projections, ie ...
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| Neuroscience- altered perception | 7/5/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: I’d like to ask You about ‘slow-motion perception’. I’ve heard of some cases when people in extreme ...
A: if you found a way to manipulate matter in such a way that chemical and electrical processes in the ...
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| brain love | 5/29/2006 | Kai Schreiber |
Q: What happens in the brain (what parts are activated, what is the chemical process, ect.) when some ...
A: This is not really my expertise, so I can provide just a general pointer rather than a comprehensive ...
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