Mend the Mind and Mind the “MCC”

The Triune Brain: Limbic Mind Mind Plastic, Emotional Mind

Problem statement: The theory discussed is revealing, as compared to studies on the human brain, the fact that he has inherited the structure and organization of three fundamental types of reptiles, ancient or primitive mammals and mammals, or recent evolved. What is very disconcerting is that nature has been able to connect with each other and establish a sort of communication between them. Ap...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Mind Control: Frontiers in Guiding the Mind

John D. Medaglia ∗, Perry Zurn † ‡ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong § Danielle S. Bassett ¶ ‖ ∗Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,†Center for Curiosity, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,‡Department of Philosophy, American University, Washington, DC, 20016 USA,§Department of Philosophy and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, ...

Mind-blanking: when the mind goes away

People often feel like their minds and their bodies are in different places. Far from an exotic experience, this phenomenon seems to be a ubiquitous facet of human life (e.g., Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Many times, people's minds seem to go "somewhere else"-attention becomes disconnected from perception, and people's minds wander to times and places removed from the current environment (...

The will to 'will' and the mind to 'mind'.

The conduct of perfusion has been described as ‘95% boredom and 5% panic.’ Now I cannot imagine many individuals ascribing to this gross underestimation of the challenges facing perfusionists today, but there are times in all of our practices, especially those centers who have embraced off-pump coronary artery revascularization, that these statistics seem a wee bit unwanting. As a past director...