Friday, September 30, 2016

More great news: Our brains are polluted with environmental magnetite.

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From Maher et al. : Summary We identify the abundant presence in the human brain of magnetite nanoparticles that match precisely the hi...
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Recollecting details improves future performance

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Interesting work from Madore et al. on neural processes though which improving the quality of recalling details of the past enhances thinki...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Insight into intergroup conflict - defense trumps aggression

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A fascinating piece from De Dreu et al. who devise a simple contest game whose results suggest that in inter-groups conflicts in-group defe...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Election Stress Disorder

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If not already, and certainly after last night's presidential election debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I suspect you ha...
Monday, September 26, 2016

A hedonism hub in the human brain.

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A open source article from Zacharopoulos et al. , who have found that people who rate hedonism as more important in their life have a larger...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Dreams and revelations.

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I want to pass on a few clips from an engaging essay by Patrick McNamara , and suggest you read the entire piece. He begins by noting religi...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Treating trans-generational stress with probiotics...

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There is considerable evidence that the effects of stress can be transmitted across multiple generations in rats and also humans. Studies s...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Biofeedback to chill out your amygdala’s hyper-reactivity?

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Tyler McDonald in NewAtlas points to this interesting collaboration of a group of Tel-Aviv university neuroscientists that suggests the po...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Scientific studies show....

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I have to pass on one more of John Oliver's skewerings of what comes at us every day. It is an expanded version of the sort of material ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Defining brain areas involved in music perception.

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From Sihvonen et al : Although acquired amusia is a relatively common disorder after stroke, its precise neuroanatomical basis is still unk...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Predicting false memories with fMRI

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Chadwick et al. find that the the apex of the ventral processing stream in the brain's temporal pole (TP) contains partially overlapp...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Self-regulation via neural simulation

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A fascinating study from Gilead et al. : Significance As Harper Lee tells us in To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a p...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

A psychological mechanism to explain why childhood adversity diminishes adult health?

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A large number of studies have by now shown that harsh social and physical environments early in life are associated with a substantial incr...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The ecstasy of speed - or leisure?

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Because I so frequently feel overwhelmed by input streams of chunks of information, I wonder how readers of this blog manage to find time to...
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Monday, September 12, 2016

Mind and Body - A neural substrate of psychosomatic illness

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We all have our "hot buttons" - events or issues that can trigger an acute stress response as our adrenal medulla releases adrenal...
Friday, September 09, 2016

Want to predict a group’s social standing? Get a hormonal profile.

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Usually the analysis of a group's social standing is attempted by determining demographic or psychological characteristics of group memb...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Reason is not required for a life of meaning.

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Robert Burton, former neurology chief at UCSF and a neuroscience author, has contributed an excellent short essay to the NYTimes philosophy...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Brain network characteristics of highly intelligent people.

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Schultz and Cole show that higher intelligence is associated with less task-related brain network reconfiguration: SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Feeling Good? Do something unpleasant.

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A curious piece from Taquet et al. : Most theories of motivation have highlighted that human behavior is guided by the hedonic principle, a...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Do your friends really like you?

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I found this article by Murphy pointing to work by Almaatouq et al. to align with my recent experience of having two long term friends (or...