EDIBLE CEREBRAL ART

It' s pretty self explanatory. This brainy stuff is not CEREBRART but looks delicious.
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CEREBRART – INTENTIONAL CHAOS

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects intentions. People with schizophrenia have difficulty in creating own and interpreting others' intentions. Human actions can occur in response to externally acquired information and/or as a result of internal volition based on internal motivation. A central monitoring brain system distinguishes between  the two when actions are made creating the sense that a person’s action is the consequence of his or her intention.  In schizophrenia, there is a deficit in this central monitoring brain system such that actions from willed intentions are mistaken as being derived from external informational sources. There is evidence towards cortical hyperexcitability in schizophrenics (glutamate chaos in the brain) because of a lack of inhibition as a background related to the anomalous manner to process information and inability to infer intentions behind pieces of information. This intentional chaos produces the belief that one’s actions are caused by others, that certain thing have intentional significance for the person and to attribute negative intentions to others. In schizophrenia, one may feel compelled to act even against one’s conscious intentions. This CEREBRART work explains these ideas artistically.

CEREBRART - Aggressive Brain

Aggression has become an important cultural problem worldwide presumably because of its deep seeded evolutionary roots in the neurochemical pathways and neuronal circuits of the human brain. Functional brain imaging studies in humans have revealed involvement of specific regions in the brain
in the expression of aggression and rage and chaotic neuronal circuits that play particularly important roles in the mechanism of aggression. Main general causes of aggression in people with neurodegenerative conditions are the frustration and anger associated with the person’s awareness of their predicament, and the structural brain damage and neurochemical alterations caused by damage and death of brain cells which automatically motivates aggression. In some psychopathic individuals the extremely heightened aggression was possibly the result of a selective decrease in brain serotonin turnover and a probable deficiency in the 5-HT1A or 5-HT1B receptor in brain regions regulating aggression which motivates those individuals to aggress. This CEREBRART work illustrates these ideas.

Cerebral Art made by Kyle Bean

 Sweet and very nice Cerebral Art but definitely not CEREBRART...

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Who Needs a Paintbrush When You Can Use a Dead Fish?

Not CEREBRART but interesting. James Prosek; "Why are we so eager to draw these disciplinary walls?" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/04/17/who-needs-a-paintbrush-when-you-can-use-a-dead-fish/

CEREBRART - Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize familiar faces (such as their immediate family members) is impaired, although the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. Further, some impairments in recognizing facial expressions have been reported in a variety of diseases like Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. I think that prosopagnosia and related disorders are caused by jumping between different chaotic attractors in the primate brain networks. The primate face is evolved evolutionary to be a beautiful attractor for the primate brain networks in a turbulent world of chaotic forest ecosystems representing important attributes such as attractiveness or social status. I think that a normal primate brain is able to represent the known faces as attractors of the neural network. Normally, the primate brains gather visual information through the eyes and the primary visual cortex and modify dynamically specific facial muscles to be interpreted properly by other primate brains through nonlinear feedback processes of iteration and mutual communication. Inability to stabilize such complex nonlinear feedback processes may suggest the emergence of chaotic attractors in the brain networks. This CEREBRART work illustrates these ideas artistically.
P.S. According to a recent comment I tried to generate a primary artistic design idea for an artefactual facial attractor to help people with Prosopagnosia ...

CEREBRART - Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Many studies have provided evidence that social conflicts can generate activation in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex is the frontal part of the Cingulate Cortex, that resembles a collar around the brain corpus callosum.

This CEREBRART work  illustrates the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex that is  involved in the distressing experience of social exclusion and might represent a circuit that underpins sadness.  So, this partially isolated brain illustrates not only an increased activity in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex but also as an abstract idea of the experience of distress following social rejection/isolation associated with greater activity in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.