Friday, June 28, 2013

The Harm-Made Mind

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Here is a fascinating bit from Daniel Wegner and his collaborators. (I cite Wegner extensively in my "I-Illusion" web-lecture in...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Are you married? Did you meet on-line or off-line?

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Interesting bit from Cacioppo et al. Marital discord is costly to children, families, and communities. The advent of the Internet, social ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Brain science backlash, throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

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A recent NYTimes Op-Ed piece by David Brooks' ("Beyond the Brain") references the recent book "“ Brainwashed: The Seduct...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Paternal stress changes stress axis in offspring

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A study from Bale and colleagues shows that stress on preadolescent and adult male mice induces an epigenetic mark in their sperm that repr...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Paper is not dead...

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Sorry to spam you, but particularly after yesterday's post about smartphone apps I thought this was hysterical.
Friday, June 21, 2013

More on smartphone brain training apps.

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This post is just a quickie pointer to update the series of posts I have done on smart phone or PC apps that give your brain a workout.  It...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Neuroimaging our self esteem - be happy!

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There are more papers coming out on brain correlates of whatever aspect of our behaviors you care to name than anyone could possibly keep up...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Young blood makes younger hearts (and brains) - also, aging resistant brains

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I've previously mentioned work showing that providing young blood to an older brain can be beneficial, and now want to note work by Lof...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Heart rate variability, ANS aging - a new device from "Phyode" - therapeutic agent or scam??

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I want to put in this post a comment by reader "Andre" on my June 11 post (" Changes as an autonomic nervous system ages 11 y...
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Carrying human (and mouse) babies reduces their crying and heart rate.

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Esposito et al. present some really nice observations. They demonstrate for the first time that the infant calming response to maternal car...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Our memory can be selectively rewritten during its reconsolidation.

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Chan and LaPaglia make an interesting observation in humans that had previously only been reported in animal studies. We can mess with an e...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Antonin Scalia Does Not Believe in Molecular Biology

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Thanks to my son Jon for pointing this out to me.

Private behaviors from public records...

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The exposure of the PRISM surveillance system by Edward Snowden gave me a sort of "So what else is new?" reaction... I thought we ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Changes as an autonomic nervous system ages 11 years - The "Wild Divine" is a bit less wild.

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Just after I retired from being a Univ. of Wisconsin department chair in 2001 I bought a set of finger sensors that fit on one's three ...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Preventing Alzheimer’s associated brain cell atrophy with B vitamin treatment.

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I pass this on because it seems like a very striking result. Douaud et al. find that high-dose B-vitamin treatment (folic acid 0.8 mg, vit...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Visions of our high-tech future: Julian Assange, Jaron Lanier, et al. on Google, Siren servers and the banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’

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The book by Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, " The New Digital Age " is a rosy scenario of our high-tech future that man...
Saturday, June 08, 2013

Penis size and male attractiveness - the most read article in The Proceedings of the National Academy!

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I finally had to pass this on.... When I check out the table of contents for new issues of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...
Friday, June 07, 2013

We can learn new information during sleep.

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Arzi et al. have devised a nice demonstration of how we can learn new information during our sleep. They paired pleasant and unpleasant od...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

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An international collaboration between researchers at universities in the US, UK, Canada, and New Zealand has generated this study , which ...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

MindBlog starts up some summer music - a Poulenc Valse

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Calling it summer music is being optimistic... it is still very chilly in Madison. I'm starting to select some pieces for an early fall...