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I found this link from the the Thinking meat blog site

http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(10)00129-0/abstract

Its about sensing the contrast ratios of the retina in depressed people and how it be demonstrated to be different.Less constrast in the retina accurately foretold a patient with a depressive illness.

I can add my little observation as well.The title is more literally true than it turns out in the research.In my twenties , I noticed that one of my eyes had a flatter cooler colour range than the other .I instinctively knew that my two cerebral hemispheres had differing emotional ‘vectors’ and this was showing up in how they perceived colour.It was so slight an effect and I had to blink alternately repeatedly to reveal the effect….but it was there.

Now that stressful part of my life is gone …and so has the effect.But it remained for years at the time.

People perspire differently on both sides of the body , muscles hang differently on the face if you look carefully , the eyes stress differently ( and hence differing opthalmic flaws for each eye ) …..we can be two very different slices of human beings glued down the middle.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/early-multicellularity/

“There is clearly a relationship between the concentration of oxygen and multicellularity,” said Abderrazak El Albani, a paleobiologist at France’s University of Poitiers. The fossils are described in the July 1 issue of Nature.

My Uncle would shake his leg vigorously whenever he needed to think hard over something…..

that got me thinking…as I played Luminosity’s iPhone brain game..I found that I  was  better at it ..if I moved side to side .Rhythmically moving side to side ..like my Uncles movements ..helped me to think more clearly.

Whats going on?

The Thalamus.I think ..by moving side to side ..we activate the ventral thalamus in pulses with rhythmic movements… that  must set up some sort of secondary sympathetic dis-inhibition ..pulse like in  the dorsal thalamus that helps the frontal cortex to function more actively.

You heard it here first.

Edit: The Motor and pre Motor cortex are the precursors to our ‘thinking brain’.The primary sequencing area that made way for the specialized sequencing – serialised proccesing of  the left language areas and the simplified and generalized sequencing – memory areas of the Frontal cortex.Thats why there is such a close relationship that is reflected in this behaviour ( motor movement = eased conflict thinking )

Posted by me on the Thomas Barnett Website…..

India is just coming around to the idea of having talks with Zardari…who is super keen on talks over settling Kashmir once and for all ( I think absolutely crucial for Afghanistan to succeed).
But what we will get is ….a predictable terrorist attack to co-incide with Commonwealth games and derail the talks that look like taking place around that time.
Because of the Lilliputian statsmenship of the Indians..they will promptly surrender to the Terrorists agenda and shut down talks as ‘punishment’.
We might even get a mini war between Pak and India in lieu of leadership.When it somes to Pak-India…India has shown the instigators of the attacks that they can own the timeline and so why should’nt they try again when talks begin again?
The Commonwealth games seem to be coming up and so are the probable indications of the possibility of talks coming within a year….I fear for the worst.