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A shameless bio about myself to begin with. My name in Sanskrit means utterly curious - I do not deny that completely.
Recently I watched a lecture by the renown neuroscientist, Eric Kandel, on Youtube. In his talk he unsurprisingly made mention of the famous patient H.M. in which most of us are familiar with. I've always been curious as to who the person was behind the famous initials. What did he/she look like? What were some of his/her hobbies?
After over a month of research and exploration of our topic, we have broke ground on our simulation.
Up to this point we have:
- Decided on specifications
If national health care reform is enacted, 93 percent of California's non-elderly population would have access to health insurance — a nearly 13 percentage-point increase in statewide coverage — according to a new fact sheet released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Why do we abhor death? Why don’t we conceive of death as a pleasant reward at the end of a life of travail? As far as we can tell, death is a state in which we are relieved of every unpleasant aspect of our lives. No pain, no nagging, no angst, no depression, just peace. What’s so bad about that?
what life is I desired, I don't clear,but the most pattern of life It reminds you of a placid rivulet,meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vastly sea;but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness.
People seeing ghosts? There may be a genuine mind-body foundation for such anomalous perceptions, according to two researchers, Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD.
WHY DO WE NEED THE ‘UNCONSCIOUS’?
Ayad Gharbawi
October 19, 2009
Does the unconscious exist? Obviously the field of psychology has much to say about the unconscious, but I am asking a question by questioning the existence of this subject.
A STUDY OF VISION IN RELATION TO THE MIND
AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE 'I' OR THE 'SELF'
Ayad Gharbawi
2008
INTRODUCTION
In this study, I will propose, that the relationship between Mind
and Vision can enable us to draw certain conclusions relevant to
one aspect of what constitutes the Mind, and therefrom, we may
seek a better understanding of what the 'I', or the 'Self' is. In
WHAT IS LIFE?
Ayad Gharbawi
This seems to be a simple enough question: what exactly constitutes the definition of ‘life’?
Let us begin, at the beginning – as they say.
‘WHO’ PRODUCES DREAMS IN THE MIND?
October 4, 2009
Ayad Gharbawi
This topic popped up as I (aka Dr. Z of www.MyLabYourLab.com) was working on putting together my itinerary for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA). Conferences are especially stimulating for me, as they represent a great intersection of people and ideas.
I had always though that refusal to get a flu vaccination was relatively harmless masochism. Refusal to vaccinate one's own children, on the other hand, should probably be prosecuted as child abuse, but at the least the negative consequences stay close to home.
If our essential functionality is probabilistic – any of an infinite number of synaptic connections may lead to one event or another within us – then our happiness must, in some measure, accommodate this chance-based essence. See, e.g., Gary Lynch (Big Brain).
Searching www.clinicaltrials.gov for current trials on BHD Syndrome reveals 3 studies; a) a genetic study of patients and families with BHD Sydrome; b) treatment of fibrofolliculomas with topical rapamycin and; c) another genetic study of patients with inherited urologic malignancies.
