Scientific Understanding of Consciousness
Consciousness as an Emergent Property of Thalamocortical Activity

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Activated Long-Term Memory? -- Working Memory —

Activity-Dependent Regulation of Inhibitory Synapse Development —

Afferents and Efferents of the Prefrontal Cortex —

Alcoholism Motivation —

Allan Hobson’s Building Blocks of Consciousness —

Amygdalar and Hippocampal substrates of Anxious Temperament —

Antonio Domasio’s Convergence Zones —

Asynchronous State in Cortical Circuits —

Attention -- Recent Research —

Attention Enhances Retrieval and Stability in Hippocampus —

Attention Gateway in Visual Thalamus —

Attentional Selection -- Entrainment of Neuronal Oscillations —

Autism Behavioral Indication in Infants —

Autism Mutations in Genes Encoding Neuroligins —

Bayesian Inference in Brain Functionality —

Benzodiazepines and Opioid Drug Abuse —

Bistable Perceptual Categorization —

Bistable Vision and the Prefrontal Cortex —

Blindsight —

Brain activation and sexual arousal —

Brain Activation during Ejaculation —

Brain as an Information Machine —

Brain During Sex —

Brain Functions as a Reality Emulator —

Brainbow Labelling for Neuronal Circuitry —

Broca’s Area Sequential Processing —

Brodmann Areas for Aphasia —

Brodmann Prefrontal Cortex —

Brodmann's Cytoarchitectonic Map —

Central Pattern Generators —

Central Pattern Generator Start-Stop Signals —

Cerebral Cortex Embryonic Development —

Chaos in Neuronal Networks —

Chromatin Plasticity and Brain Function —

Cingulate Cortex —

Cognition and the Brain's Ability to Self-Generate Sequential Neuronal Activity —

Cognitive Control —

Concussion —

Connectivity of the Neural Network —

Consciousness and Complexity —

Consciousness and the Thalamocortical Loop —

Consciousness as ‘Remembered Present’ —

Consciousness Information Flow —

Consolidation of Memories in Hippocampus and Ventral Striatum During Sleep —

Cortical Columns Generate Streams of Information —

Cortical Columns in Embryo Development —

Cortical Connectivity with Axodendritic Overlap —

Damasio Nomenclature —

Daydreaming and Driving an Auto —

Death of H.M. —

Decorrelated Neuronal Firing in Cortical Microcircuits —

Dendrite Synaptic Integration —

Dendritic computation of sensory input by cortical neurons —

Dendritic Encoding of Sensory Stimuli by Cortical Interneurons —

Dendritic Mechanisms in Interneurons —

Dendritic Plasticity and Input Feature Storage in Neurons —

Dendritic Spines and Memories —

Development of Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks in Children —

Disgust —

Disgusting — Oral Origins of Moral Disgust —

Donald O. Hebb —

Dopamine Neurons —

Dopaminergically Mediated Reward in Somatosensory Decision-Making —

Dreaming Model —

Dynamic Core -- A Subset of Thalamocortical Activity —

Dynamic Core Diagram by Edelman —

Embryonic Development of Neural Network —

Emotional Memory Storage — Secondary Sensory Cortices —

Envy and Schadenfreude —

Evolution of the Brain Recent Research —

FAPs — Central Pattern Generators —

FAPs — Fixed Action Patterns —

FAPs — Persistent Activity —

Fast Vesicle Reloading Sustains High Bandwidth —

Feelings (Damasio) —

Fictive Reward Signals in Anterior Cingulate Cortex —

Focused Attention -- Gamma Oscillations (20-80 Hz) —

Football Concussions —

Friendly Conversation —

Functional Columnar Architecture Formation in Neocortex —

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) —

Future of Psychiatric Research - Genomes and Neural Circuits —

Gamma Oscillations in Somatosensory Cortex —

Gestalt Laws in Perceptual Interpretation —

Gestalt Perception —

Gestalts and Consciousness —

Grid Cells in the Human Memory Network —

Hallucinogen Drug Action —

Hierarchical Organization of Memory Networks —

High-Fidelity Transmission of Sensory Information in Cerebellum —

Hippocampal Learning in the Trisynaptic Pathway and Monosynaptic Pathway —

Hippocampal Neurons Respond During Free Recall —

Hippocampal Pattern Separation in CA3 and Dentate Gyrus —

Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells Use Temporal As Well As Rate Coding —

Hippocampal Short- and Long-Term Plasticity Not Modulated by Astrocyte Signaling —

Hippocampal Theta Oscillations Are Travelling Waves —

Hippocampus Hypothesized to Mediate Pattern Separation of Mnemonic Representations —

HM obit —

Hobsons Building Blocks —

Human Preferences Sensitive to Inequality —

Integration of What and Where in Prefrontal Cortex —

Itch Sensation —

Junk Food Addiction —

Long-Term Memory and Dopamine —

Memory — Recent Research —

Memory Allocation in Neural Circuits —

Memory as Synaptic Reconstruction —

Memory Consolidation and Associative Changes in Neocortical Code —

Memory Consolidation Potentiated by Slow Oscillations During Sleep —

Memory Processing -- Creation to Consolidation —

Memory Reconsolidation —

Mental Images —

Minimal Consciousness —

Mirror Neurons and Language Evolution —

Modeling Regulatory Circuits —

Modularity of Categorization in Parietal Cortex —

Modulation of Neuronal Interactions Through Neuronal Synchronization —

Music and the Brain -- Emotion and Movement —

Music of the Cerebral Hemispheres —

Neocortex Outer Region Subventricular Zone Development —

Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making —

Neural Map Topography —

Neural Network — Recent Research —

Neural Network Connectivity —

Neural Origin of Willed Actions —

Neural Substrates of Working Memory —

Neuromodulatory Systems — Recent Research —

Neuronal Diversity and Temporal Dynamics —

Neuronal Gestalts for the Dynamic Core —

Neurons and Synapses -- Recent Research —

Orbitofrontal Cortex Functions —

Orbitofrontal Cortex In Pursuit of Specific Rewards —

Oscillations and Schizophrenia —

Oscillation and Synchronization -- Recent Research —

Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Social Behavior —

Pain and Pleasure Systems —

Pain Neural Pathways —

Perception--Action Cycle —

Perception, Face Recognition —

Perceptual Categorization -- Recent Research —

Personality and Individuality —

Phase Shifts of 40 Hz Oscillations —

Plasticity of Dendritic Spines for Learning and Memory —

Plasticity of Neural Connections — Recent Research —

Populations of Neural Activity —

Prefrontal Cortex —

Prefrontal Cortex and Drug Addiction —

Prefrontal Cortex and Emotion —

Prefrontal Cortex and Motor Function —

Prefrontal Cortex and Working Memory —

Prefrontal Cortex Functionally Compartmentalized —

Priming —

Probabilistic Reasoning by Neurons —

Qualia as a Master Organ —

Reentry and Recursion —

Reticular Formation —

Schizophrenia —

Selected Parapharses — Joseph LeDoux —

Selected Parapharses — Rudolfo Llinás —

Self —

Self-Control in Decision-Making —

Sexually-based Love —

Social Decisions in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex —

Social Learning —

Spatial Orientation —

Spike Synchronization in Motor Cortical Function —

Spike Synchrony in Small Populations of Neurons —

Spine Stabilization and Synaptic Enhancement —

Stem-Cell-Based Neural Therapies —

Stochastic Nature of Neuronal Behavior —

Subcortical Parallel Loops —

Synaptic Remodeling, and Network Activity —

Synaptic Theory of Working Memory —

Synchronization of Neuronal Activity by Interneurons —

Synchronized Brain Interactions for Memory and Decision-Making —

Synchronized Oscillations and Inhibitory Interneurons —

Thalamocortical System Diagram —

Thalamus Diagram —

The Self (Damasio) —

Theta Rhythms Coordinate Hippocampal—Prefrontal Interactions —

Three Topological Networks in Brain —

Unconscious Cognitive Processes —

Unconscious Motivational Processes —

Variable Discharge of Cortical Neurons —

Ventral Striatum and Pleasure —

Vision and Consciousness —

Visual Cortex, Invariant Object Representation —

Voluntary Movement —

Working Memory -- Recent Research —

 

 

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