Anyone Obsessed With Science?

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Why not "neurophysics". The prefix psycho is from the Greek root meaning soul which we know does not exist. Sometimes it means mind, which has never been detect by any scanning device such as a PET scan or an MRI or an angiogram.

ruveyn

Have you got any results that might lead to an objective diagnosis of autism or Asperger's.? Right now we have to depend on behavioral clues which can be misleading.


Good luck in your researches. I hope you hit pay-dirt.


ruveyn

I'm obsessed with physics mainly. But technically, that's about to become my career.

I'm so so when it comes to science. I'm mainly into Biology.

my favourite's physics because of pressure. you can use it for useful things like cooking or fun things like firing tennis balls arount the room

Dictionary:
psycho-
Psycho- is added to words in order to form other words which describe or refer to things connected with the mind or with mental processes.
neuro-
Neuro- is used to form words that refer or relate to a nerve or the nervous system.

Neurophysics is the branch of physics dealing with the nervous system. It covers a wide spectrum of phenomena from molecular and cellular mechanisms to techniques to measure and influence the brain and to theories of brain function. It can be viewed as an approach to neuroscience that is based on solid understanding of the fundamental laws of nature.

Psychophysics differs from neurophysics,
just like psychology differs from neurology.
The prefixes "psycho" and "neuro" are not interchangeable.

Psychophysics means something different from neurophysics.
Psychophysics is a discipline and a method in the broader field of psychology and is related to neuroscience.
Psychophysics studies the relation between physical stimuli and percepts and mental processes.
These percepts and mental processes can not be measured and studied using any brain imaging technique. We study products of the brain's nervous system. There is more than that which can be seen on PET scans, MRI scans or any other brain scan. I also want to stress that brain imaging techniques also have their constraints.

Ψυχη ("psyche")
1. breath
2. life, spirit
3. the immortal part of a person
4. the spirit of a dead person
5. the conscious self, as the seat of emotions, desires
6. the organ of thought: mind, reason
7. (philosophy) the universal spirit
8. butterfly, moth

So a Ψυχη or "psyche" does exist, at least in the meaning of "the conscious self, as the seat of emotions, desires" and in the meaning of "the organ of thought: mind, reason".
I would say the Ψυχη or "psyche" is the product of the brain's neural system.

Apart from a discipline, psychophysics also refers to a general class of methods that can be applied to study a perceptual system.
The name of the discipline and method of psychophysics originated in history:
Many of the classical techniques and theory of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Fechner published "Elemente der Psychophysik" ("Elements of psychophysics"). He coined the term "psychophysics", described research relating physical stimuli with how they are perceived, and set out the philosophical foundations of the field. Fechner wanted to develop a theory that could relate matter to the mind, by describing the relationship between the world and the way it is perceived. He was influenced by the work of German physiologist Weber. Fechner's work formed the basis of psychology as a science. Wundt, the founder of the first laboratory for psychological research, built upon Fechner's work.
I do not study ASD.
I do not study any mental disorder.
I do fundamental research in humans.

I'm confident that in the future researchers will find out more about ASD so better diagnostic tests can be developed.
Thanks, I've conducted 3 experiments for my PhD project, articles of which have all been published
I'm now finishing my PhD thesis, making it a nice book, which contains the publications.

i am very much occupied with designing multidimensional "seeds" that beget fractal images.

am also lesser occupied with playing tunes i think of in multiple layers.

i am also very occupied with my flight simulator and designing my own planes to fly in.

i also have a space flight simulator, and it is extremely accurately programmed, and i like to blast into orbit at a pre-programmed angle, and then use trigonometric calculations as to where i should go retrograde and thrust up to de-orbit. i can blast off from heatrhrow and decline the trajectory at an an angle of 72 degrees east (sydney bound) , and after 36 minutes i must perform the reentry checklist and it is quite exciting.
my next ambition is to fly to the moon in it.

i am very much interested in things i want to play with and i focus sharply on them.

I am obsessed with math and physics.

Yes i love Biology and math. I am certified to teach both. Now if only I could find a job I enjoy....sigh.

I am obsessed with anything related to space travel.

I find that psychophysics subject quite interesting actually, Scientist.

I was just reading an article about a guy who takes multiple fMri's of subjects while they are looking at various images, and is designing algorithms that can reproduce the images they were seeing from the fMri data translated into voxels (three dimensional pixels) apparently.

Very interesting stuff, and it will be important if we're ever going to upgrade to mechanical brains eventually, keep at it!


As for science and math, they are one and the same I feel, science at it's best approaches mathematics in it's elegance, and math is elegance incarnate.

yep!

yep!

Thank you

I'm kind of skeptical about whether that's possible. But it sounds interesting, indeed. I'm curious to find out if he can do it.

i'm interetsed in evolution, genetics and biochemistry. unfortunately my math and physics sucks.

Only certian branches such as zoology and veternary medicine.