And there's actually a cortical arousal we're looking at, because guys have been with guys in teams, in clubs, in gangs, in fraternities, especially in the military, and then in pubs.

Arousal addiction, you want different.

Cortical Surface Reconstruction and Visualization

The problem is these are arousal addictions.

It's all about cortical processing and forebrain specialization.

Arousal is still good because you are over challenged there.

So the effect, very quickly, is it's a new kind of arousal.

So you need the novelty in order for the arousal to be sustained.

Now this cortical folding presents a significant challenge for interpreting surface electrical impulses.

Now actually we've looked in several different cortical areas in the monkey learning this task.

Boys' brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal.

There are 15 or 20 cortical areas that are changed specifically when you learn a simple skill like this.

So for example we can look to the cortical area that represents input that's controlling the posture of the monkey.

We look in cortical areas that control specific movements, and the sequences of movements that are required in the behavior, and so forth.

But actually if you look at melody, what you find is that there's very little cortical activity in implant users compared with normal hearing controls.

Now this is the part of the nervous system that deals with the things that we don't consciously control, like digestion, heart rate and sexual arousal.

In other words there is still a single, simple representation of the fingertips in this most organized of cortical areas of the surface of the skin of the body.

So, arousal is the area where most people learn from, because that's where they're pushed beyond their comfort zone and to enter that going back to flow then they develop higher skills.

And it's important, if you try to model this, you can think about normal development as a loss of cortical mass, loss of cortical gray matter, and what's happening in schizophrenia is that you overshoot that mark, and at some point, when you overshoot, you cross a threshold, and it's that threshold where we say, this is a person who has this disease, because they have the behavioral symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

That says to me, at least in rats and I think they have the same neurotransmitters that we do and a similar cortical architecture that play may be pretty important for our survival.

Traumatized people also easily lose control symptoms are hyper arousal and memory flashbacks so people are in a constant fear that those horrible feelings of that traumatic event might come back unexpectedly, suddenly, and they cannot control it.

Masters and Johnson, in the 1950s, they decided, okay, we're going to figure out the entire human sexual response cycle, from arousal, all the way through orgasm, in men and women everything that happens in the human body.

Indeed, the mind does not operate like a video recorder, and thus not every aspect of a traumatic experience gets encoded into memory in the first place. High levels of emotional arousal often result in the victim s attention being drawn to the central features of the event at the expense of other features.

Thus, although a true synaptome of the mammalian brain is a chimerical quest, it is possible that in the near future we will be able to construct a silicon cortex, a computerized machine based on a realistic model of the complete anatomical, physiological, and molecular design of the cortical circuit. If we succeed, we will finally be able to see the forest without having to look for every tree.