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[inteuniso]

Thought I would start a discussion on neuroscience. Thought a bit on the Corpus Callosum and the difference between men and women, and it's connection on mental illness. Anyone else have thoughts on the Corpus Callosum or other parts of the brain?

Also, does anyone know how significant the hippocampus is to creativity and imagination?

EDIT: Other posts were right, rereading my post it was simply philosophical nonsense trying to be held up by scientific terms. I've since removed it, and am going to refine it over time as I learn more.

[Frumple]

"Just so" story about evolution, sweeping generalizations (women's intuition, etc.), descriptive -> prescriptive shift, massive simplification in regards to child socialization issues... your thoughts make me want to strangle things

I don't think the issues regarding behavioral patterns you were referring to are even remotely sufficiently explained by the difference in physiology you described. Partially, perhaps (perhaps even certainly), but sufficiently, not even close.

My current thoughts on neuroscience is that it's extremely promising in a lot of areas, but we should leave behavioral suggestions to behavioral psychology and sociology until the field of neuroscience is considerably more developed. And get some damn philosophers (or at least philosophically well trained neuroscientists) on board if they're going to be aiming to make sweeping prescriptive or value statements

[alway]

This isn't neuroscience. What you've invented is another moronic evo-psych pseudo-scientific 'explanation.' Which, again, is completely different from neuroscience.

[ChairmanPoo]

Neurology is science, not philosophy. You can't make stuff up as you go along like that.

[inteuniso]

Thank you for the criticism.

Perhaps I need to take my writings to the philosophy section (or just put my thoughts down on paper), but I am genuinely interested in neuroscience and sociology particularly, so any studies or books that you guys know would be great.

I probably should have put a disclaimer saying that in no way do I believe my writings to be infallible truths. More often than not, I will be wrong about things. Dead wrong. I simply ask that you educate me on my shortcomings so I may improve on them.

[alway]

The trick is to find material which is both high level and done in such a way as to be understandable to those unfamiliar with the subject. Podcasts are usually pretty good at that; blogs can be too. There's also a variety of sub-fields, so you may want to pick which ones you find interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#Major_branches

[inteuniso]

Computational Neuroscience immediately piqued my interest, but cultural neuroscience sounds equally interesting. Thanks for the list alway.

Anyway, does anyone have a lot of information/experience in the field of neuroscience or any fields of science relating to the brain? I want to hear people's thoughts on cerebral dominance and the relevance of cerebral dominance to learning.

[Hiiri]

I probably should have put a disclaimer saying that in no way do I believe my writings to be infallible truths. More often than not, I will be wrong about things. Dead wrong. I simply ask that you educate me on my shortcomings so I may improve on them.

Meh, don't be intimidated by these guys. They're probably not any better informed than you are. It's a shame you removed your post, it seemed to have been provocative.