Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Green Porno.

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In the 25 Sept. issue of Science Magazine, the Gonzo Scientist points us to these humorous performances on the Sundance channel (worth c...
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A new chemical fix for chronic depression??

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Maybe, for mice. With the results possibly relevant to us. There is evidence, obtained from both post-mortem human brains and from animal ex...
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Out of Africa

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The Sept. 22 issue of P.N.A.S. has a special section of articles on human evolution. The abstract of Ian Tattersall's introductory to t...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Nutrition and Violence

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In the Sept. 25 issue of Science John Bohannon describes work of Oxford's Bernard Gesch and others studying prison populations for evid...

How would you control eight legs?

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It's a problem, if you are an octopus, because you have the challenge of controlling eight appendages that can assume an almost limitles...

The Mind and LIfe Institute

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Here is the link to download the Autumn 2009 Newsletter of the Mind and Life Institute. It describes the Mind and Life Education and Resea...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Size matters...

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I work out every day in the university gym, where in the shower room it is obvious that the large more macho males subtly (or not so subtly)...
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Watch those shots of booze!

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I've always been curious about the attraction that shots of sugar and alcohol (peppermint schnaps, etc.) have for adolescent drinkers. ...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Acting against our real self interest to preserve our self image

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Here is a fascinating bit of game playing from Yamagishi et al. : In a series of experiments, we demonstrate that certain players of an eco...

Mindblog backlog...

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Here is my second offering of links to a few bits of work that I find interesting, but that are so far down my list of potential blog postin...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

A new positive psychology website

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You might want to check out the launch of a new self help website happiness.com . It has the support of gurus in the happiness field such as...
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Observing the brain pathway that lowers anxiety

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Kim and Whalen publish an interesting study in the Journal of Neuroscience using diffusion tensor imaging to show that the structural integ...

A unique area for tool use in human versus monkey brains

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Peeters et al. observe an activation in the left inferior parietal lobule when humans observe tool use, absent in monkeys doing the same ob...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

More on Brain Boosters

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Gary Stix has written a review article for the Oct. 2009 issue of the Scientific American titled "Turbocharging the Brain", a to...

Bird brains get even more clever.

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New Caledonian crows, already known for clever tool-making in the wild and in the lab, are now shown to be able of using three tools in th...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Societal trend of media multitasking is changing our cognitive control

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Lin reviews some interesting work of Ophir et al. showing: ...that heavy media multitaskers (HMMs) performed worse on task switching than ...

Mood elevating endorphine release greater with social than with solitary exercise

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The Research Highlights section of the Sept. 17 issue of Nature points to work by Cohen et al. : Coordinated social activity, such as dancin...

MRI of emotions in a dead fish...

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Even though this gem is making the rounds of the blogosphere it is worth pointing to again here. (This reminds me of my grandmother's ...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Will there ever be a "healthy" diet?

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Darn.... here I've been religiously avoiding potatoes, pasta, bread, etc in my diet, and now Rosenzweig and his Harvard colleagues fin...
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Rewards work better than punishment in enhancing cooperation

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Rand and colleagues have examined cooperation among 192 participants in a public goods game probing the fundamental tension between the int...