Topic: Barrow Neurological Institute

Goodyear Mayor Georgia Lord was released Thursday from Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and she expects to return to work sometime next...
Thirteen years ago this week, on February 9th,I was admitted to Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix after a CT scan revealed the source of my 6-month old headaches. My doctor didn't know what else to do at that juncture except ...
The use of lacosamide as an adjunctive treatment in patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures is effective in reducing seizure frequency and may provide additional benefits for some patients with secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, according to research published online Jan. 27 in Epilepsia ...

Optical Illusions and the Illusion of Love

Overview hat everywhere you look there are heart-shaped balloons, pink greeting cards and candy boxes filled with chocolate. (Unfortunately, Hallmark has no plans to mass-produce chocolate-covered arrow-pierced brains in the near future. Susana Martinez-Conde is director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience ...

Brain Tricks

The edges of things attract more of our brain's attention than the flat fields in the middle. Susana Martinez-Conde, the director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, suspected there was something even more interesting to ...
STARE at this picture long enough and you will see trickling streams flowing in the concentric circles. Previous work hinted that the brain, not eye movements, caused the pattern to dance: people viewing similar images mounted on contact lenses still saw the ...

Illusions: The Eyes Have It

This is the third article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions.. It's important for evaluating their intentions, and critical for forming bonds and negotiating relationships. Susana Martinez-Conde is director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at ...

A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions

Photo Album haps thousands, of visual scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, visual artists, architects, engineers and biologists all missed it-until now. The "it" in question is the Leaning Tower Illusion, discovered by Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi, and Elena Gheorghiu of McGill University. Susana Martinez-Conde ...
Psychologist Richard J. Haier of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine replies: Susana Martinez-Conde, a neuroscientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, explains: scientists do not yet fully understand how confidence, knowledge and other variables interact to guide our ...

The Neuroscience of Illusion

The Neural Correlate Society recently announced the winners of its annual Best Visual Illusion contest. To celebrate the event, Mind Matters invited Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, two neuroscientists who specialize in visual perception, to explain the scientific value of visual ...