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medial,
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–
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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,
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and MTL,
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Plato on (wax metaphor),
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spiking provides picture of,
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Tracts,
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–
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Transcendence, through computers,
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Transhumanism,
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,
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–
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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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–
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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,
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–
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primitive methods of,
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through regeneration,
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–
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through rewiring,
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–
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for stroke,
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,
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,
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–
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of brain injury (regeneration),
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–
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development of drugs for,
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–
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,
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for mental disorders

and connectopathies,
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drugs for,
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–
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(
see also
Drugs)

for neurodevelopmental disorders,
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–
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optimism toward,
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–
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question of abuse of,
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timing of,
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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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,
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Turing, Alan,
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Turing test,
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,
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,
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Turkheimer, Eric,
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Turtle story,
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21st Century Medicine (company),
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Twins,
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–
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connectomes of,
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–
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in
C. elegans,
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–
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Twin studies,
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–
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and dizygotic (DZ) (“fraternal”) twins,
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–
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and monozygotic (MZ) (“identical”)twins,
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,
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Two-photon microscopy,
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,
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,
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Ultramicrotomes,
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,
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ATUM improvement in,
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–
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in SBFSEM,
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Uniqueness, of human person,
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–
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“Uploading” (“mind uploading”),
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–
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and change,
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connectome as basis for,
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,
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and consciousness/zombie question,
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–
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criterion for success of,
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,
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–
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and extrasynaptic interactions,
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input and output for,
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–
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and self as information,
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–
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and transhumanism,
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–
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and personal goal,
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and virtual worlds,
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See also
Computer simulation

Vaccines,
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,
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,
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Valves in veins as analogous to synapses,
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Ventricular system,
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–
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Ventris, Michael,
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,
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–
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Vesicles,
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,
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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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–
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Vitalism,
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Vitrification,
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–
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Vogt, Oskar and Cécile,
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Voltaire,
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V1 area of cortex,
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,
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,
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Voting, neural,
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–
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Wagner-Jauregg, Julius,
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Watson, James,
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,
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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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,
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,
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,
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Weinberg, Steven,
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Wernicke, Carl,
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,
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Wernicke's aphasia,
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,
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Wernicke's region,
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,
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,
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connected to Broca's region,
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–
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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.,
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White matter,
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–
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,
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,
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myelinated axons of,
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study of,
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“White matter pathway,”
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White paper, as Locke's metaphor for mind,
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–
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Whitman, Walt, brain of,
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“Whole-brain death,”
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Wiesel, Torsten,
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,
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Wild Boy of Aveyron,
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Williams, Ted,
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Wiring of brain,
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–
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in childhood vs. adulthood,
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–
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and connections across boundaries,
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–
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,
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and dead brains,
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–
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See also
Connectome(s); Rewiring of brain

Wiring economy, principle of,
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,
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–
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Witelson, Sandra,
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,
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Writing analogy for early connectome,
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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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,
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Zero-to-three movement,
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Zombies, and uploading,
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