I’ve Changed my Mind

Intelligence Augmentation through Neurohacking

Alex Ramonsky

A BCC BOOK

Glossary

ACG Anterior Cingulate Gyrus

ACTH AdrenoCorticoTrophic Hormone

Action...Any situation in which there is an equal and opposite reaction

AI Artificial Intelligence

AL Allegorical (or Analogical) Language

Anxiety...Unresolved stress

Attachment...Dependence on something or someone for pacification of anxiety. Similar to addiction. The default behavior for a damaged intelligence

BAD Bipolar Affective Disorder (Manic Depression)

Bonding...Building a conceptual and physical bridge between the known and the unknown

CC Corpus Callosum

CNS Central Nervous System

COMP The program intelligence uses to grow and learn

CR Calorie Restriction

DECS Direct Electrical Cortical Stimulation

DPE Deep Probe Electrode

EEG ElectroEncephaloGraphy

EMG ElectroMyoGraphy

Emotion... A tool in the service of intelligence

IA Intelligence Augmentation (or Amplification)

Intelligence... The ability to interact

Interaction/synchrony...Any situation in which both parties experience a net gain of energy

LH Left Hemisphere

LTP Long Term Potentiation

Matrix...Any situation where the three needs for the emergence of intelligence are met

MDMA MethyleneDioxyMethAmfetamine (Ecstasy)

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MSG MonoSodium Glutamate

Networks...Brain modules or systems

NMS Neuro Magnetic Stimulation

NMT Neuro-Muscular Training

P&V Practice & Variation

PET Positron Emission Tomography

PFC Pre Frontal Cortex

PFL Pre Frontal Lobe(s)

PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Reaction...Any situation in which one party or situation benefits at the expense of another

RF Reticular Formation

RH Right Hemisphere

SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder

Sentiment...Feelings and behavior based on attachment or erroneous programming

SSRI Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

VR Virtual Reality

References & further reading

Note: The author does not necessarily agree with the opinions expressed in the works cited for further reading; they are here so you can explore them and make up your own mind, what you think.

R1:

http://www.neuroguide.com/index.html

http://www.med.uwo.ca/physiology/courses/medsweb/

R2:

Piaget, J. Inhelder, B. & Weaver, H.(Translator);'Psychology of the Child' New York, Basic Books, (1969;) Paperback, (October 1972)

Piaget, J. 'Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood', New York, W.W. Norton & Co, (1962)

'The Origins of Intelligence in Children' New York, International Universities Press, (1952)

R3:

www.brainstages.net/

www.brainstages.net/Publications.htm

Epstein, Herman.'Phrenoblysis: Special Brain and Mind Growth Periods. I. Human Brain and Skull Development. II. Human Mental Development'; Developmental Psychobiology, New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1974)

R4:

Pearce, Joseph Chilton. 'Magical Child' Plume (Penguin group) (1977)

R5:

Rochlin, G. 'The Dread of Abandonment: A Contribution to the Etiology of the Loss Complex and to Depression' The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, vol 16, edited by Ryth Eisler. New York, International Universities Press, (1961)

Dantzer in: Psychopharmacology, vol 24, p50

McKay, R & Cameron, H in: Nature Neuroscience, vol 2, p804

Related reading:

Tinbergen, N. 'Ethology and stress disease' Science, pp. 20-27.(5 July 1974)

www.coursework.info/i/24970.html

..and for AI buffs on this:

Filename: 9862 Neuropsychology Artificial Intelligence.doc. ... 7. 11778 'How General Anxiety Disorder Affects The Human Information Processing Systems'. ...www.paperresearch.com/ cgi-bin/navigate.cgi?cat=Psychology+%2F+Cognitive+Studies

R6:

Gage, F. in Nature Medicine vol 4, p1313 (Nov 1998).

Gould, Elizabeth .'Neurogenesis in adulthood: a possible role in learning': Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol 3, p186 (1999).

Related reading:

LeDoux, J.'Synaptic Self'; Viking Penguin, New York (2002)

Stewart, I & Cohen, J.'Figments of Reality'; Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge (1997)

R7:

McGrath, J. in: New Scientist, p38 (21 July 2001)

R8:

Windle, W F. 'Brain Damage by Asphyxia' Scientific American, pp 76-84 (October 1969)

R9:

Harlow, H. F. 'Love in Infant Monkeys' Scientific American, pp68-74 (June 1959)

Kaufman, C. & Rosenbloom, L. 'Depression in Infant Monkeys' Science, pp1030-1031 (24 Feb 1967)

Massie, H. 'Patterns of Mother-Infant Behavior and Subsequent Childhood Psychoses: A Research and Case Report' Mt. Zion Hospital & Medical Centre, San Fransisco (1975).

Mitchell,G. 'What Monkeys Can Tell Us about Human Violence' The Futurist, (Apr 1975)

R10:

Ainsworth, M. D. 'Deprivation of maternal care: A Reassessment of its Effects' Public Health Papers no. 14, pp97-165. Geneva (World Health Organisation).

Liedloff, J., 'The Continuum Concept'

R11:

http://cloudbreak.ucsd.edu/~triesch/courses/development/papers/Nelson.pdf.

Blakemore, C. & Cooper, A. 'Development of the Brain depends on Visual Environment' Nature, 228, pp. 477-8 (1970)

R12:

Ainsworth, m. A. 'Infancy in Uganda'. Baltimore: Johs Hopkins University Press (1967)

Feldman, R., Eidleman, A. I., Sirota, L. & Weller, A. 'Comparison of skin-to-skin ('kangaroo') and traditional care: parenting outcomes and pretern infant development' Pediatrics, 110, pp. 16-26 (2002)

R13:

http://www.tigertouch.org/cubsresearch.html

R14:

http://courses.unb.ca/soci2534/chapter/12/

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=17540

http://www.wholefamily.com/aboutyourkids/child/television.html

R15:

http://www.signiform.com/erik/pubs/ddijcai.htm

R16:

Condon, W., & Sander, L. 'Neonate Movement Is Synchronised with Adult Speech: Interactional Participation and Language Acquisition'. Science, pp. 99-101 (11 Jan. 1974).

Furth, H., 'Thinking Without Language'. New York: The Free Press (1966)

Zipf, J. K. 'The Psycho Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology' Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press (1965)

R17:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2037.html

R18:

See statistics from:

http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/default.htm

R19:

Holt, J. 'Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better' New York: E. P. Dutton (1976)

R20:

http://www.gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/Breaking_Bond.htm

R21:

Carpenter, E. 'Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!' New York: Bantam Books (1973)

R22:

http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunctionofMoodStates.htm

R23:

http://designweb.otago.ac.nz/grant/psyc/COMPLIANCE.HTML

R24:

http://www.ciadvertising.org/sa/spring_03/382j/analiza/Advertising.htm

R25:

Werbach, M. R., 'Nutritional Influences on Aggressive Behavior' Journal of Orthomoleculer Medicine, Vol 7, No. 1 (1995)

http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-mw1.htm

R26:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/pubs/understanding_sleep_brain_basic_.htm

R27:

http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/researchHighlights/pages/wang.htm

R28:

Ramonsky, A. & Beddoe, A. 'What We Did On Our Holidays: An Exploration of Things People Don't Do With PET Scanners', unpublished paper, (1982). Available from the Entelechy Institute.

R29:

Lutz, B. in Nature,vol 418 p530 (2002)

R30:

Bliss, T. V., and Lomo, T. in J. Physiol. (London) 232:331-56 (1973)

R31:

http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/mcb/165_001/papers/manuscripts/_67.html

R32:

http://www.vankuyen.net/brain/

R33:

http://www.cortisol-control.com/health/memory.html

R34:

Price, D. D. Assessing placebo effects without placebo groups: An untapped possibility? Pain, 90, 201–203. (2001)

R35:

http://www.trans4mind.com/holosync/research.html

Further reading:

http://www.snr-jnt.org/NFBArch/nindex.htm

http://www.mind-gear.com/

http://www.eegspectrum.com/

R36:

http://www.toolsforwellness.com/nm400.html

R37:

Fisher, H. 'Why We Love: The nature and chemistry of romantic love' Henry Holt & Co., New York (2004)

R38:

Ekman, P. 'Emotions Revealed' Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2003)

R39:

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/

(The Good Drug Guide: The Responsible Parent's Guide to Healthy Mood-Boosters for all the Family)

Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute at www.ceri.com.

Alexander Shulgin interview here:

http://users.lycaeum.org/~paracel/NEUROMEDICA/People/Shulgin/shulgininterv.html

And you can ask him questions here:

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/

Further reading:

http://www.damicon.fi/sd/smartdrinks.html

http://www.damicon.fi/sd/megabrain.report.txt

R40:

http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2003/paingene.htm

R41:

http://www.alzheimers.org/nianews/nianews6.html

R42:

Snyder, A. in: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol 13, p19 (2004)

R43:

http://www.wireheading.com/brainstim/godbrain.html

R44:

A brilliant guide:

www.innerworlds.50megs.com

R45:

http://forth.stir.ac.uk/~pmbc1/elective/46ha_nts.htm

R46:

Kendler, K. in: Archives of General Psychiatry, vol 60, p292

R47:

Moffit, T. in: Science, vol 301, p386 (2003)

R48:

Baker Heart Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. In: The Lancet, p1840 (Dec 7th, 2002)

R49:

Science, vol 300, p1952. Harvard Medical School.

R50:

Potter, A. presented at: the Society for Neurosciences meeting, New Orleans (Nov 2003)

R51:

Study published by Science, vol 297, p851 (Aug 2002)

R52:

http://www.rpi.edu/~verwyc/BIGFIVEOH.html

R53:

Ramachandran, V. S. 'Mirror Neurons and Imitation Learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution' http://www.egde.org/documents/archive/edge69.html

R54:

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=6707&cid=17&cname=

R55:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1263758.stm

R56:

(This is a paper that Damien Broderick presented at the three-day symposium 'Australia at the Crossroads? Scenarios and Strategies for the Future', 31 April-2 May 2000, at the John Curtin International Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia.)

R57:

'Nootropics'. Roberts, J.C. (Organic chemist, NeuroChem/Physics, Neurotechnology:Inventor, Theory, Author, NeuroTech Device Designer, CosmicQuantumVisionary, Bold User of "mind"(sic) Tech 'Future Phfarmacuticals'

R58:

-Traecie K. Meyer Lott, dJinni BioPsychology/Biochemistry: Psychophfarmacology/NeuroEndocrinology. PuzzlePieceSeeker. Brazen User of NeuroTech.

R59:

(Canadian patent 2446903)

R60:

(a plant extract, US patent application 2003099729)

R61:

(Cortex Pharmaceuticals’ newest nootropic, which enhances glutamate transmission, and production of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor [BDNF] and Nerve Growth Factor [NGF]).

R62:

(James Roberts) "One of the best ways to research up and coming nootropics is to search the Espacenet world patent database with the search terms "cognitive enhancer", "nootropic", "neuro degeneration" and "Alzheimer’s". It is said that 80% of humankind’s technical knowledge is patented, and with the epidemic proportions of the Alzheimer’s Problem, the pharma industry is keen to develop a treatment."

R63:

(Synaptic pharmaceutical corporation,) http://www.synapticcorp.com/

R64:

(PALATIN technologies,) http://www.palatin.com/main.asp?con=5%2E2

R65:

http://www.cortexpharm.com/

R66:

http://www.cortexpharm.com/html/research/index.html

R67:

(RepliGen corporation) http://www.repligen.com/Research/Uridine/index.html

R68:

(NPS pharmaceuticals)