Thursday, October 29, 2015

Low-power people are more trusting in social exchange.

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Schilke et al . make observations suggestion that low-power individuals want high-power people they interact with to be trustworthy, and act...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

How much sleep do we really need?

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A study by Yetish et al. casts fascinating light on the widespread idea that a large fraction of us in modern industrial societies are slee...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Chilling down our religiousity and intolerance with some magnets?

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A group of collaborators has used transcranial magnetic stimulation to dial down activity in the area of the posterior medial frontal corte...
Monday, October 26, 2015

The hippocampus is essential for recall but not for recognition.

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From Patai et al : Which specific memory functions are dependent on the hippocampus is still debated. The availability of a large cohort of...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Brain activity associated with predicting rewards to others.

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Lockwood et al. make the interesting observation that a subregion of the anterior cingulate cortex shows specialization for processing othe...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Drugs or therapy for depression?

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I want to pass on a few clips from a piece by Friedman , summarizing work by Mayberg and collaborators at Emory University, who looked for ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Hoopla over a bit of rat brain…a complete brain simulation?

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A vastly expensive and heavily marketed international collaborative "Blue Brain Project (BBP)" has now reported its first digital...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Meditation madness

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Adam Grant does a NYTimes Op-Ed piece that mirrors some of my own sentiments about the current meditation craze. There would seem to be alm...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

A brain switch that can make the familiar seem new?

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We all face the issue how to refresh and renew our energy and perspective after our brains have adapted, habituated, or densensitized to an ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Sir Reginald's Marvellous Organ

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Under the "random curious stuff" category noted in MindBlog's title, above, I can't resist passing on this naughty video s...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Great apes can look ahead in time

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Yet another supposed distinction between human and animal minds has bit the dust. The prevailing dogma (expressed in my talk " The Beas...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Rhodopsin curing blindness?

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In a previous life (1962-1998) my laboratory studied how the rhodopsin visual pigment in our eyes changes light into a nerve signal. Thus it...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Can epigenetics explain homosexuality?

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Michael Balter notes work presented by Vilain's UCLA laboratory at this year's American Society of Human Genetics meeting. His abst...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Musical expertise changes the brain's functional connectivity during audiovisual integration

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Music notation reading encapsulates auditory, visual, and motor information in a highly organized manner and therefore provides a useful mod...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Runner's high? Thank your internal marijuana...

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From Fuss et al. : Exercise is rewarding, and long-distance runners have described a runner’s high as a sudden pleasant feeling of euphoria...
Friday, October 09, 2015

A Gee Whiz! moment. Activating neurons with ultrasound.

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Optogenetics, making nerve cells sensitive to light by a genetic manipulation, has the limitation that light doesn't penetrate living ti...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

1/f brain noise increases with aging.

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From Gazzaley and collaborators , a description of what in going on in our aging brains: Aging is associated with performance decrements ac...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Methionine, an amino acid, enhances recovery from cocaine addiction.

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Wright et al. use a mouse model to show that the common amino acid methionine - which can serve as a methyl group donor for the DNA methyla...
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Memory aging and brain maintenance

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An open access article by Nyberg et al. notes The association of intact memory functioning in old age with maintenance and preservation o...
Monday, October 05, 2015

The wealthy are different from you and me...

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The abstract from an article titled "The distributional preferences of an elite" by Fisman et al. : We studied the distributional...