Monday, December 31, 2018

Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons.." abstracted - Part 1 - The Technological Challenge

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In this and the next four posts I'm passing on the result of something I do for myself when reading an interesting book - attempt to get...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Reimagining the human

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Eileen Crist does a perspective essay in Science Magazine. Some clips: Earth is in the throes of a mass extinction event and climate change...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Brain biomarkers for resilience - executive frontal lobe activity

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Friedman points to several articles demonstrating brain correlates of resilience to social adversity:  -higher connectivity within the br...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Blood proteins are different in people who exercise.

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There is abundant documentation of the positive effects of exercise: lengthening life spans, reducing disease risks, improving heart health,...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

A Seasonal Offering...

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The cellist in a piano trio that I am playing with invited me (as a sight reading pianist who is always on the prowl for string players) to ...
Monday, December 24, 2018

"Meaningful Life" science - a tonic for our times?

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I am a rye crisp empathy challenged old fart, but I try sometimes to kind, generous, and nice. And, I sometimes wonder what planet the Grea...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Brain correlates of successful cognitive aging.

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From Wang et al. (open access to text and figures): Prevention of age-related cognitive decline is an increasingly important topic. Recent...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Corruption of online social systems by Bots

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From Stella et al.: Societies are complex systems, which tend to polarize into subgroups of individuals with dramatically opposite perspect...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

More on slowing down aging.

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Some recent articles: Gretchen Reynolds points to work showing that vigorous aerobic exercise causes an increase in the length of telomer...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Can we really inherit trauma?

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MindBlog has mentioned a number of studies that claim that the effects of trauma can be passed through generations. Carey does a review tha...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Bad news on human nature - a listicle

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I pass on clips from an Aeon piece by Jarrett that notes some of the darker and less impressive aspects of human behavior. Each of the poin...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Septuagenarians with the bodies of 25-year-olds

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This septuagenarian (76 year old) author of this MindBlog always enjoys coming across reports of research, such as the work of Trappe and co...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Stop talking about 'male' and 'female' brains.

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As a counterpoint to yesterday's post, which invokes the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism, I pass on some clips from a piece by Joel ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Testing theories of sex differences and autism with big data.

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From Greenberg et al : Significance In the largest study to date of autistic traits, we test 10 predictions from the Empathizing–System...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Watching memories change the brain - a challenge to the traditional view

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I pass on both the Science Magazine summary of Brodt et al. , as well as the summary graphic in a review of their article by Assaf, and fina...
Monday, December 10, 2018

The coding of perception in language is not universal.

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From Majid et al. : Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness...
Friday, December 07, 2018

The neuroscience of hugs.

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Packheiser et al. observed more than 2,500 hugs at an international airport, hugs with positive emotions at arrival gates and hugs with neg...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Limited prosocial effects of meditation.

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Kreplin et al. do a meta-analysis, and Kreplin writes a more general review of studies on the effects of meditation. The Krepline et al. a...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

How stress changes our brains' blood flow.

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From Elbau et al. : Ample evidence links dysregulation of the stress response to the risk for psychiatric disorders. However, we lack an in...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

More on the sociopathy of social media.

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Languishing in my queue of potential posts have been two articles that I want to mention and pass on to readers. Max Fisher writes on the...
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