Friday, September 29, 2006

Recollection, familiarity, and novelty in different areas of medial temporal lobes.

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Daselaar et. al. have used MRI to observe memory retrieval accompanied by specific contextual details (recollection) or on the feeling tha...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Sex and Death in Suicide Attackers

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I'm passing on verbatim this brief review from a recent issue of Science on sex differences in the motivation of suicide bombers: &quo...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Brain correlates of hysteria.

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The Tuesday Science section of the New York Times (Sept 26) has an interesting article on hysteria, a fashionable syndrome in the Victorian...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Analogs of human language areas in monkey brains...

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A recent article in Nature Neuroscience describes how species-specific calls activate homologs of Broca's (speech generation) and Werni...
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Monday, September 25, 2006

Booze inhibits serotonin re-uptake, but not like Prozac does....

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McGowan comments in Nature Reviews Neuroscience on an article by Daws et. al. in Journal of Neuroscience: This study shows that ethanol in...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Why Christians and Conservatives should accept evolution.

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Michael Shermer, in the Oct. issue of Scientific American, gives these arguments for being both a conservative Christian and a Darwinian: 1....
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

The Macbeth Effect: washing away your sins.

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This work has received some notice, and I thought it worth abstracting the clever experiments involved. Edited from Zhong et al .: Physical...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Brain Stressed Out? Try this machine.......

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In today's mail, a catalog from "The Spiritual Tech" team at Sounds True company in Boulder Co. Any widget you might want...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

A treatment for acquired anxiety disorders in humans?

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Cai et. al. show in a rodent model that administration of glucocorticoids immediately after reactivation of a contextual fear memory sign...
Monday, September 18, 2006

Innate Imitation of Facial Expressions by Newborn Monkeys

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Almost 30 years ago, Meltzoff and coworkers reported that 2- to 3-wk-old human infants responded with corresponding matching behaviors to sp...
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Friday, September 15, 2006

The Mind Games of Neuroeconomics

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The Sept. 18 issue of the The New Yorker has an engaging article by John Cassidy that reviews collaborative work by economists and neurosci...
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Culture Shapes Arithmetic in the Brain

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A collaborative study by Chinese and American authors has suggested that our mother tongue might influence the development of the brain ci...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

MRI Detection of Brain Awareness in the Vegetative State

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A fascinating report by Owen et al in Science documents one case in which a woman, completely unresponsive and diagnosed as being in a vege...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Fatherhood changes the prefrontal cortex.

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Like human fathers, male marmosets help raise their young. Neuroimaging studies show that stimuli related to one's own child activate th...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

God on the Brain

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The Economist has a nice review and critical discussion of work by Mario Beauregard and collaborators at the Univ. of Montreal doing fMRI i...
Monday, September 11, 2006

The central role of "construals" in determining performance... the power of brief interventions

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An article in the Sept. 1 issue of Science by Cohen et. al. and an accompanying review by Wilson point out the power of brief interventi...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Seligman's Happiness Regimen...

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An article in the August issue of Discover Magazine discusses whether we can train ourselves to be happy. Classes are now taught on obtai...
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Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Expert Mind

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I've been meaning to mention an interesting article in the August issue of Scientific American, by Philip Ross, on how people become e...
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Neural operations that give rise to a unitary sense of self.

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An interesting article by Moran et. al. in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: They examined whether the cognitive and affective components ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Avoiding Punishment is its Own Reward...

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Work by Kim et al employs functional imaging to suggest a similar role for the human medial orbitofrontal cortex in processing the receipt ...