31. Acetylcholine & Muscles
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... genes in which fluorescent proteins were controlled by the acr-2 promoter, they discovered that the ACR-2 subunit is expressed in cholinergic motor neurons in the worm's ventral cord. Expression of wild-type ...

32. Anatomy & physiology - Neurogenesis
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... thousands of new neurons are created each day in several regions of the brain. One of the major sites of adult neurogenesis is the hippocampus, a pair of structures shaped like horseshoes tipped on edge, ...

33. Epigenetics - Exploring the Genome Project
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... determination and inheritance. Because of the vast complexity of epigenetic regulation, ranging from single genes to the folding of whole chromosomes in the nucleus, epigenetics involves an amazingly ...

34. Epigenetics - Chromatin and Gene Expression
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On this, theologians, philosophers, and biologists can agree: we are more than the sum of our genes. Biological ...

35. Physiological methods - Longevity and Epigenetic Modification (Intermediate Level NH)
(Neurohacking/Methods & Technology)

... is estimated at 25-32%, however it has long been known not only that key genes are involved in the aging process but that some of these can be strongly affected by epigenetic factors. Instead of being ...

36. Tobacco & Nicotine - nicotine as therapy
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

... task performance. Nicotine may be the link between two genes that appear to figure in schizophrenia. Sherry Leonard and Robert Freedman of the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado, have shown that ...

37. Drugs & Chemicals Intro - Part 3: Natural Introduced Chemicals
(Neurohacking/Drugs & Chemicals)

...  Long-term consumption of caffeine can inhibit hippocampus-dependent learning and memory, partially through inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis. Theophylline (also known as dimethylxanthine) It ...

38. Neurohacking Tutorial 5 - Improving & Augmenting N1 & N2
(Neurohacking/Tutorials)

... is usable in NH for changing habits. You will also know that anxiety prevents plasticity, because plasticity usually takes place via epigenetics; interaction between genes and signals from their environment. ...

39. Matrix Theory - The Basics
(Neurohacking/Theory & Research)

... the work of Chilton-Pearce is less well known. Physical brain growth (neurogenesis and arborisation)(22) certainly coincides (or should) with the matrix shifts of childhood, but synaptogenesis coincides ...

40. ICMM 2 My Computer (what is intelligence)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... order to achieve its aims. It is not our genes that are selfish; it is intelligence, and the difference is, intelligence is on our side; genes are not. Genes are just one more thing intelligence has had ...

41. ICMM 3 Operating System (matrix theory)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... and ongoing development of intelligence is based on its progression from one 'matrix' or set of neural networks, to another. Each matrix 'shift' occurs at first in synchrony with bursts of neurogenesis, ...

42. ICMM 4 Find (key factors of damage)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... The next stage unfolds, we have to live with it. Puberty happens to teenagers whether or not they are intellectually and emotionally prepared for it, because the genes expect the organism to be sufficiently ...

43. ICMM 5 System Information (chain reaction)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... be remembered that the major production time for brain cells ends at around age 4 or 5.R3 Further growth is mainly due to arborisation and synaptogenesis. So the early years really are important for exploration, ...

44. ICMM 6 Run (COMP)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... at being them. This is what brings about the set of action potential patterns in our brains, which starts synaptogenesis (the formation of new synapses between neurons, thickening networks). The brain ...

45. ICMM 9 Disc Cleanup (wiping sentiment)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... and vasopressin-receptor genes affects the difference in behavior. The insertion of an extra section of DNA text (only about 460 letters long), into the promoter makes an animal more likely to bond with ...

46. ICMM 10 Memory Editors (enhancing & wiping)
(Workshop/I've Changed My Mind)

... importantly, synaptogenesis and gene expression. Alteration of the intracellular calcium level can happen in various ways, via voltage-gated calcium channels, release from intracellular stores, or ligand-gated ...