What are the neural correlates of theory of mind and how do these areas relate to mirror neurons?
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http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cdl/pdfs/German_Niehaus_Roarty_etal_2004.pdf#search='neural%20correlates%20of%20theory%20of%20mind'
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This is a good one>>\nhttp://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm
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Interesting. The brain is a bundle of neurons, but it has no "feeling" itself.  An electrode inserted into the brain is painless.
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I did not take this specific course in college however I have studied it extensively since I have been practicing. I honestly believe it supplies more answers than many of the theorist were able to provide.  It of course is used in conjunction with theories in practice but there is honestly an area you miss out if you don't cover it.  Try reading Molecules of Emotion, I can't think of the author, she writes in a way that is very down to earth and yet really explores the impact of emotion on neurochemistry.  From their it is easier to expand into the concepts of behavior.
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hi, \ngo to this link.. its all about 6th sense http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20000701-000034.html
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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Yes - it's connected to the same part of your mind that associates visual cues with responses.  Similar to when you see someone crying, and you suddenly become sad.  Similar association.
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There is no absolutely proven link for mind over matter. In terms of using your mind to overcome pain, then this may be possible as you are simply training your brain to ignore pain signals. Walking over hot coals may be an example of this, but again scientists are divided over whether this is true mind-over-matter.\n\nIn terms of using your mind to move objects across a room, then i think this highly unlikely to be acheivable, purely for the fact that it would require an immense energy exchange.
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http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?nameMitchS
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That for me is a completely limiting prospect. And plus it is a completely generalized statement to say that only one part of the brain is responsible for a complex notion as creativity. However pop psychology likes to believe that emotions and creativity comes from the right hemisphere, but again with not enough support. I prefer the saying that the sum of all parts is not equal the whole, for the brain has a very complex physiology that not one part produces a separate effect but rather a group of parts at the same time.
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Oh, what a question.. A question that has no immediate answer. First.. what is the mind: Mind refers to the collective aspects of human intellect and consciousness that originate in the brain and which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.\n\nT H U S: If the mind is indeed a thing S E P A R A T E THING from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then presumably it will not be possible for any machine, no matter how sophisticated, to duplicate it. If on the other hand the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible, at least in theory, to create a machine with a mind\n\nIn essence. this has been a question from the times of Aristotle to date... We still do not know
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The human brain controls heartbeat, respiration, digestion and other autonomic functions. It is the seat of thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The brain is what makes the cognitive mind possible such as perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories.\n\nWhile all that is good and fine if this is a homework question for elementary school or middle school just put down that it controls thoughts and emotions or something less complicated.
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At birth, the brain has many synapses (connection points between neurons, where a neorutransmitter is released from one cell to signal the next).  The synapses are generated in utero by mechanisms that are primarily genetic, and they don't manage to do much to make the brain useful initially.  As a child develops, the experiences of life--which can be as simple as moving a muscle and feeling which appendage moves, or as comlex as trying to ascertain emotion from facial expression--synapses are strengthened or weakened (or even eliminated) in such ways as to make the connections that exist meaningful.  By this, I mean to say that the connections must work to potentiate a relevant response to a given stimulus.\n\nAs a stimulus-response mechanism, the brain is very complicated.  A stiulus can be internal from the brain, and a response can be internal to the brain, in terms of a cognition (thought) being either a stimulus or a response in and of itself.\n\nCultural context will shape the sorts of stimuli encountered and affect the way that the brain wires itself.  One of the most obvious ways is in the recognition of phonemes, or sounds that comprise a language.  Even at a very young agae, prior to the age necessary to speak, the brain is picking up cues from conversations as to what sorts of sounds are considered equal.  A given letter pronounced by one person might be very different from that pronounced by another person, but the brain will learn to regard them as the same.  A noted example of this is the letters L and R in English, which are often indistinguishable to Japanese speakers.  Others include things like the differences between Arabic single and double letters, which has no direct equivalent in English.\n\nThe cultural context will also determine many other things, particularly aesthetics.  Foods are seen as tasty or repulsive on a largely cultural basis.  Music that might be dissonant or cacophonic to some might be harmonious or rhythmic to others.\n\nThere are also the ethical differences.  For some, even uttering the wrong word might be anathema, while for others a word is just a word.  Taboos and sins will shape the brain to avoid some behaviors, while differences in virtues will predispose the mind to seek out other behaviors.
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psychoendoneuroimmunology (PENI), provides both the concepts and the mechanisms for studying and explaining mind-body relationships. The brain is the body's first line of defense against illness, and the mind is the functioning of the brain. PENI incorporates ideas, belief systems, hopes, and desires as well as biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy. As we change our thoughts, we are changing our brain and thus our biology and our body. Belief systems set a baseline for the brain upon which other variables will act and have their effects.
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The brain controls "lower" or involuntary activities such as heartbeat, respiration, and digestion - these are known as autonomic functions. The brain also controls "higher" order, conscious activities, such as thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The human brain is generally regarded as more capable of these higher order activities than any other species.\n\nThe human brain is thought to be the source of the conscious, cognitive mind. The mind is the set of cognitive processes related to perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories, of which a person may or may not be aware. Beyond cognitive functions, the brain regulates autonomic processes related to essential body functions such as respiration and heartbeat.\n\nExtended neocortical capacity allows humans some control over emotional behavior, but neural pathways between emotive centers of the brain stem and cerebral motor control areas are shorter than those connecting complex cognitive areas in the neocortex with incoming sensory information from the brain stem. Powerful emotional pathways can modulate spontaneous emotive expression regardless of attempts at cerebral self-control. Emotive stability in humans is associated with planning, experience, and an environment that is both stable and stimulating, especially during early developmental years.\n\nThe 19th century discovery of the primary motor cortex mapped to correspond with regions of the body led to popular belief that the brain was organized around a homunculus. A distorted figure drawn to represent the body's motor map in the prefrontal cortex was popularly recognized as the brain's homunculus, but function of the human brain is far more complex.\n\nThe human brain appears to have no localized center of conscious control. The brain seems to derive consciousness from interaction among numerous systems within the brain. Executive functions rely on cerebral activities, especially those of the frontal lobes, but redundant and complementary processes within the brain result in a diffuse assignment of executive control that can be difficult to attribute to any single locale.\n\nMidbrain functions include routing, selecting, mapping, and cataloguing information, including information perceived from the environment and information that is remembered and processed throughout the cerebral cortex. Endocrine functions housed in the midbrain play a leading role in modulating arousal of the cortex and of autonomic systems.\n\nNerves from the brain stem complex where autonomic functions are modulated join nerves routing messages to and from the cerebrum in a bundle that passes through the spinal column to related parts of a body. Twelve pairs of cranial nerves, including some that innervate parts of the head, follow pathways from the medulla oblongata outside the spinal cord.\n\nA definite description of the biological basis for consciousness so far eludes the best efforts of the current generation of researchers. But reasonable assumptions based on observable behaviors and on related internal responses have provided the basis for general classification of elements of consciousness and of likely neural regions associated with those elements. Researchers know people lose consciousness and regain it, they have identified partial losses of consciousness associated with particular neuropathologies and they know that certain conscious activities are impossible without particular neural structures.
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EDIT: Half of my answer didn't post for some reason.\n\nScientists have been studying this for years, but never have found an answer.\n\nWhen I spoke to a deaf woman about this idea, this is what she said: "When I think about what I am going to say, I think about it in sign and I sometimes sign in my sleep.  However, when I read something (because there is no written version of sign language) I think about it in English.  Concepts are created visually more often than in English."\n\nFor an actual study, when presented with a stimulus, the visual and language areas of the brain become active, whereas in a hearing person, the auditory and language areas of the brain become active.  While they are processed differently, the language area of the brain is used at all times.\n\nThe only other help I can offer is a study on Genie, a girl who was locked up and unsocialized until about the age of twelve.  While she was able to be somewhat rehabilitated and learn some basic vocabulary, she never figured out how to put complex sentences together, which was thought to show she was not capable of complex thought.  However, the data was compromised because it was thought that she may be mentally challenged.
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The mind is the human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. \n\nThe collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism that direct and influence mental and physical behavior. \n\nThe principle of intelligence; the spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality. \n\nThe faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge: Follow your mind, not your heart. \n\nA person of great mental ability: the great minds of the century. \n\na. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection: I'll bear the problem in mind. b. A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities: the medical mind; the public mind. c. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup: the criminal mind. \n\nOpinion or sentiment: He changed his mind when he heard all the facts. \n\nDesire or inclination: She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert. \n\nFocus of thought; attention: I can't keep my mind on work. \n\nA healthy mental state; sanity: losing one's mind.