Minding the Social Brain

Minding the Social Brain -Virtual Foundation StoneFor the initiative to fund a decade-long BRAIN ACTIVITY MAP -BAM as in OBAMAA generation of social neuroscientists uses acronyms to identify the structural neural networks revealed in the NIH Human Connectome Project. They know that a medial brain hub of nodal networks, the Default Mode (DM), uses most of the brain-s activation energy. Responding to the unexpected, it adapts the brain-s predictive capacity by learning-modifying its own synaptic structure. During syndrome formation in brain damage, depression, traumatic anxiety, or psychosis, the DM maintains familiar mental fantasy and reverie-even when its core networks should be processing new data for adaptive problem-solving. Alzheimer-s disease decimates all the nodes of this hub.Just as industry alongside government generated our genome code, researchers worldwide in the private sector and government are already exploring how a brain-s emergent property unifies its mind. Alert to