Conduction pathways in microtubules, biological quantum computation, and consciousness

BioSystems

Volumn 64, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 149-168

  Hameroff, Stuart ^a   Nip, Alex ^a   Porter, Mitchell ^a   Tuszynski, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biolomolecular computation; Consciousness; Microtubules; Protein conformation; Quantum computation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; POLYMER; PSYCHEDELIC AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN; TUBULIN;

INFORMATION SYSTEM;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CONDUCTANCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CYTOSKELETON; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON; GAP JUNCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROTUBULE; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0036139094     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(01)00183-6     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Does the geometric design of centrioles imply their function?
2. Microtubule theory of sensory transduction
3. Intraprotein radical transfer during photoactivation of DNA photolysis
4. Matching speed and stability
5. DNA-mediated electron transfer: Chemistry at a distance
6. Quantum aspects of brain activity and the role of consciousness
7. Fluorescent resonant energy transfer in microtubules
8. The centriole as a gyroscopic oscillator: Implications for cell organization and some other consequences
9. Calculations of the electrical conduction by microtubule protofilaments, sheets and cylidners
10. Solitary wave dynamics as a mechanism for explaining the internal motion during microtubule growth
11. ATPdependent gelationcontraction of microtubules in vitro
12. Molecular computing as a link between biological and physical theory
13. Amplification of superpositional effects through electronicconformational interactions
14. Cytoskeletal involvement in neuronal learning: A review
15. Microtubules in mammalian cell shape and surface modulation: An alternative hypothesis
16. Self-focusing of Frolich waves and cytoskeleton dynamics
17. Gap junctions in the brain: Where what type, how many and why
18. The dendritic lamellar body: A new neuronal organelle putatively associated with dendrodendritic gap junctions
19. Association between dendritic lamellar bodies and complex spike synchrony in the olivocerebellar system
20. Evolution of consciousness
21. Dynamic aspects of the conformational states of tubulin and microtubules
22. Anesthetic and convulsant properties of aromatic compounds and cycloalkanes: Implications for mechanisms of narcosis
23. Molecular mechanisms of general anesthesia
24. Do general anesthetics act by competitive binding to specific receptors
25. Mapping of general anesthetic target sites provides a molecular basis for cut-off effects
26. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of general anaesthesia
27. Longrange coherence and energy storage in biological systems
28. Long-range coherence and the actions of enzymes
29. The extraordinary dielectric properties of biological materials and the action of enzymes
30. A network of fast-spiking cells in the neocortex connected by electrical synapses
31. Two networks of electrically coupled inhibitory neurons in neocortex
32. Force carrying web pervades living cell
33. Molecular mechanisms of anesthesia
34. Chi: A neural hologram? Microtubules, bioholography and acupuncture
35. Quantum coherence in microtubules: A neural basis for emergent consciousness
36. "Funda-Mentality": Is the conscious mind subtly connected to a basic level of the universe
37. Quantum computation in brain microtubules? The Penrose-Hameroff 'Orch OR' model of consciousness
38. Information processing in microtubules
39. Do anesthetics act by altering electron mobility
40. Nonlinear electrodynamics in cytoskeletal protein lattices
41. Orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: A model for consciousness
42. Conscious events as orchestrated spacetime selections
43. Molecular architecture and dynamics of the neuronal cytoskeleton
44. A field theory of consciousness
45. Tension and compression in the cytoskeleton of PC 12 neurites
46. Synaptic transmission
47. Steric and electronic relationships among some hallucinogenic compounds
48. Protein ion channels, gates, receptors
49. Beyond self assembly: From microtubules to morphogenesis
50. A potentially realizable quantum computer
51. Mechanical continuity and reversible chromosome disassembly within intact genomes removed from living cells
52. Demonstration of mechanical connections between integrins, cytoskeletal filaments, and nucleoplasm that stabilize nuclear structure
53. The internalist enterprise on constructing cell motility in a bottom-up manner
54. Consciousness and BoseEinstein condensates
55. Non-critical string theory approach to brain microtubules: State vector reduction, memory codes and capacity
56. Cold depolymerization of microtubules to double rings: Geometric stabilization of assemblies
57. Directional lipophilic character in a series of psychotomimetic phenylethylene derivatives
58. Structure of the tubulin dimer by electron crystallography
59. BoseEinstein condensation and liquid helium
60. What gaps? Reply to Grush and Churchland
61. Role of the cytoskeleton in genome regulation and cancer
62. Computational connectionism within neurons: A model of cytoskeletal automata subserving neural networks
63. Functional magnetic resonance imaging with intermolecular mutilple-quantum coherences
64. Intermolecular zero-quantum Coherence imaging of the human brain
65. Anharmonic wave functions of proteins: Quantum self-consistent field calculations of BPTI
66. Gradionation: Hypothesis for positioning and patterning
67. A model of the energy transfer mechanisms in microtubules involving a single soliton
68. Cold numbers unmake quantum mind
69. A relationship between the hallucinogenic activity of drugs and their electronic configuration
70. The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes
71. Does macroscopic quantum coherence occur in ferritin
72. Ferroelectric behavior in microtubule dipole lattices; implications for information processing, signaling and assembly/disassembly
73. Intermembrane linkage mediated by tubulin
74. Gap junctions, synchrony and seizures
75. The propagation of a zone of activation along groups of flagellar doublet microtubules
76. Evidence of electron transfer from peptides to DNA: Oxidation of DNA-bound tryptophan using the flash-quench technique
77. Control of cytoskeletal mechanics by extracellular matrix, cell shape and mechanical tension
78. A possible role for cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain and pontomesencephalon in consciousness
79. A quantum approach to visual consciousness
80. A correlation of van der Waal's constants with anesthetic potency