Javed Alam

Youngstown, Ohio

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  • Lost Key

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 11/04/2008
    The story shows the peculiarity of brain on how it avoids peeking into its own darkness.
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  • Lost Key

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 11/04/2008
    The story shows the peculiarity of brain on how it avoids peeking into its own darkness.
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  • American Dream a Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist Says | Wired Science from Wired.com

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 10/22/2008
    The current system is set up to encourage addictive behavior. The problem with addiction is that the brain's response to addiction attenuates and we need higher and higher dosage of addictive material. It is tied up directly with the brain's reward system that includes the dopamine neural response. ...
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  • Why Money is Part of Human Nature: Money as Both Tool and Drug

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 10/16/2008
    It has been by Knutson at Stanford that Money, sex, cocaine and gambling excite the dopamine related brain reward system. This neuronal response is also responsible for addictive behavior. "The pleasure of orgasm, the high from cocaine, the rush of buying Google Inc. at $450 a share --- the ...
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  • Questioning Consciousness

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 09/13/2008
    Yep, this is a good one. Consciousness is the bogey man. I think it is one of the phantom words that we imagine like so many other things to create an illusion of reality that does not empirically exist. Like the illusion shown in that article we force it to make it real to have a consistent reality....
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  • Wired Campus: Professor Uses Web 'Widgets' to Share Course Content - Chronicle.com

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 09/12/2008
    Jennifer It is really not that hard to do. All you need to do is to go to the widget web site and create your own widget. Once done copy the embed code they make it for you and paste it in html on your web site. I see lots of potential for this in creating websites for learning. Especially ...
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  • The Art of Changing the Brain ... - Google Book Search

    Comment added by Javed Alam on 09/12/2008
    I have this book. In fact the author is from the school I graduated. It is a good introduction book on what is known as "brain based learning". He had made an attempt to relate the findings in brain science to learning. But in many ways I think it is overly simplistic. His main thesis is based ...
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