Friday, November 17, 2006

Memory enhancement during your sleep...just wear an electric head strap?

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I'm wondering how long it is going to be before we start seeings advertisements for "effortless memory enhancement" devices in...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Is there a biology of intelligence?

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Because I once had an article in Behavioral and Brain Science , I receive email on final drafts of forthcoming articles for review. The p...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Gender and sexual orientation regulate the effect of invisible images.

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As we are contantly bombarded with vast amounts of information, selective attention mechanisms help us quickly attend to what is important w...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Mind over Matter: how depression causes bone loss through nerve activation.

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The chronic activation of the arousal part of our autonomic nervous system (the sympathetic nervous system) that can occur during stress has...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Imaging the brain during "speaking in tongues"

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The charismatic practice of speaking with the full conviction that God is talking through you has ancient roots in many religious traditions...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Putting humans and their climate in perspective

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I always find it theraputic to renew my awareness of the fact that humans as we know them occupy only an eyeblink in the timeline of complex...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Deric and MindBlog are moving south for the winter...

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From Madison, WI to Fort Lauderdale, FL. The pictures below show why… Five years after retiring as a department chair at the Univ. of Wisc...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The Brain Making Choices: The Lesser of Two Evils or the Better of Two Goods....

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The relevance of this topic to yesterday's election was mentioned in the post just below. Blair et al. have now used functional magneti...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The psychology of framing in this election - are we deciding whom to accept or whom to reject?

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Barry Schartz (a psychology professor at Swarthmore, and author of “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.”) has a nice OpEd piece in to...

The evolution of morals - a nudge of clarity

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Relevant to my recent post , This letter to the editor in the science section of the NYTimes from my Univ. of Wisconsin colleague Larry Shap...

Where your brain sizes up your competition...

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Goodman reports on a study led by Caroline Zink, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health, that found that several ...
Monday, November 06, 2006

No effect of DHEA or Testosterone in Elderly

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Nicholas Bakalar reviews a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine involving 87 men, average age 79, and 57 women, average ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Are we born with a moral grammar?

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By now I've probably read at least 5 mixed (mainly positive) reviews of Mark Hauser's new book "Moral Minds," and the com...
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Tony Auth and Tom Tooles on the resveratrol story

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Self recognition - humans, apes, dolphins...and now elephants

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Plotnik, de Waal, and Reiss report in PNAS that mirror self recognition (MSR), considered an indicator of self awareness, can be observed i...
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Followup: take resveratrol and continue to pig out...

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In my 10/31/06 post on caloric restriction I elected not to get into the resveratrol story, but followup articles in the NY Times and Natu...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

How emotions modulate memory through the amygdala

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Transmission of sensory information through the rhinal cortices is essential for hippocampus-dependent learning. In Nature Neuroscience Qui...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Eat less, live longer, now shown for monkeys as well as mice and worms

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Mason writes an interesting review in the New York Times 10/31/06 science section focusing on experiments at the University of Wisconsin Pri...
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Relationship between genetic variations in serotonin transporter, brain activity, and depression.

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The effect of life stress on depression is moderated by a repeat length variation in the transcriptional control region of the serotonin tra...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

How Google can nudge the keywords of political debate

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There's a great piece "Own your own words" in the Oct. 30 Sunday New York Times Book Review Magazine written by Steven Johnso...