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medial,
[>]
–
[>]

Thalamus,
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Theaetetus
(Plato),
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Third Law of Prediction, Clarke's,
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Thomson, Alex,
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Thomson, Nichol,
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,
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,
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Thorazine,
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Thought

association in,
[>]

and MTL,
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Plato on (wax metaphor),
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spiking provides picture of,
[>]

Tracts,
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–
[>]

Transcendence, through computers,
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Transhumanism,
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,
[>]
–
[>]

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM),
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Transorbital leucotomy,
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–
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Transplantation

for Parkinson's disease,
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–
[>]

with vitrification,
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Traumatic events, drugs for forgetting of,
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Treatment, medical

for brain disorders,
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development of drugs for,
[>]
–
[>]

primitive methods of,
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through regeneration,
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–
[>]

through rewiring,
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–
[>]

for stroke,
[>]
,
[>]
,
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–
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of brain injury (regeneration),
[>]
–
[>]

development of drugs for,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

for mental disorders

and connectopathies,
[>]

drugs for,
[>]
–
[>]
(
see also
Drugs)

for neurodevelopmental disorders,
[>]
–
[>]

optimism toward,
[>]
–
[>]

question of abuse of,
[>]

timing of,
[>]

training regimens in,
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principles to follow in,
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“Trophic factors,” for neurons,
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Truffaut, François,
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Turaga, Srini,
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–
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Turgenev, Ivan,
[>]
,
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,
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Turing, Alan,
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Turing test,
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–
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,
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,
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–
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Turkheimer, Eric,
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Turtle story,
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–
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21st Century Medicine (company),
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Twins,
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–
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connectomes of,
[>]
–
[>]

in
C. elegans,
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–
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Twin studies,
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–
[>]

and dizygotic (DZ) (“fraternal”) twins,
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–
[>]

and monozygotic (MZ) (“identical”)twins,
[>]
,
[>]

Two-photon microscopy,
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,
[>]
,
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Ultramicrotomes,
[>]
,
[>]

ATUM improvement in,
[>]
–
[>]

in SBFSEM,
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Uniqueness, of human person,
[>]
–
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“Uploading” (“mind uploading”),
[>]
–
[>]

and change,
[>]

connectome as basis for,
[>]
,
[>]

and consciousness/zombie question,
[>]
–
[>]

criterion for success of,
[>]
,
[>]
–
[>]

and extrasynaptic interactions,
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input and output for,
[>]
–
[>]

and self as information,
[>]
–
[>]

and transhumanism,
[>]
–
[>]

and personal goal,
[>]

and virtual worlds,
[>]

See also
Computer simulation

Vaccines,
[>]
,
[>]
,
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Valves in veins as analogous to synapses,
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Ventricular system,
[>]
–
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Ventris, Michael,
[>]
,
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–
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Vesicles,
[>]
,
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Vesuvius, Mount, eruption of,
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Victor (feral child),
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Video games, as lifelike simulation,
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Vision

as difficult for machines,
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as fundamental,
[>]
–
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Vitalism,
[>]

Vitrification,
[>]
–
[>]

Vogt, Oskar and Cécile,
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Voltaire,
[>]

V1 area of cortex,
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,
[>]
,
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Voting, neural,
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–
[>]

Wagner-Jauregg, Julius,
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Watson, James,
[>]
,
[>]

Wax tablet metaphor for memory,
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Weber, Carl Maria von,
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“Weighted voting model,”
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–
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,
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,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]
,
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Weinberg, Steven,
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Wernicke, Carl,
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,
[>]

Wernicke's aphasia,
[>]
,
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Wernicke's region,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

connected to Broca's region,
[>]
–
[>]

and stroke damage,
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What You Can Change and What You Can't
(Seligman),
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White, John,
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–
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White, T. H.,
[>]

White matter,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

myelinated axons of,
[>]

study of,
[>]

“White matter pathway,”
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White paper, as Locke's metaphor for mind,
[>]
–
[>]

Whitman, Walt, brain of,
[>]

“Whole-brain death,”
[>]

Wiesel, Torsten,
[>]
,
[>]

Wild Boy of Aveyron,
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Williams, Ted,
[>]

Wiring of brain,
[>]
–
[>]

in childhood vs. adulthood,
[>]
–
[>]

and connections across boundaries,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

and dead brains,
[>]
–
[>]

See also
Connectome(s); Rewiring of brain

Wiring economy, principle of,
[>]
,
[>]
–
[>]

Witelson, Sandra,
[>]
,
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Writing analogy for early connectome,
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–
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Wulst (visual region),
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Xu Fu (Chinese court sorcerer),
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Zebra finch,
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,
[>]
,
[>]
,
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Zero-to-three movement,
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–
[>]
,
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,
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,
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Zombies, and uploading,
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