Friday, March 29, 2019

Yet another longevity predictor?

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The NYTimes and WaPo must have a substantial number of readers in my 75-80 year old demographic, an age interval during which physical capab...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Using artificial intelligence for medical billing scams.

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As a 76 year old Medicare beneficiary, I am frequently annoyed by the blatant ploys that medical care providers use to game the 'fee for...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Inflam-aging

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Leucht and collaborators show that injured bones do not heal as well with age because of the increases in chronic inflammation that occur w...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Affect theory and the new age of anxiety.

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Hua Hsu, in the March 25, 2019, issue of The New Yorker, does a fascinating presentation of the work and ideas of Lauren Berlant, whose wr...
Monday, March 25, 2019

More green space in childhood, fewer psychiatric disorders in adulthood.

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From Engemann et al. : Urban residence is associated with a higher risk of some psychiatric disorders, but the underlying drivers remain u...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Neural signal diversity is increased by psychedelics

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From Carhart-Harris and collaborators : What is the level of consciousness of the psychedelic state? Empirically, measures of neural signal...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Knowing your own heart - distinguishing interoceptive accuracy and awareness

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Garfinkel et al. categorize three different aspects of the internal bodily sensing (interoception) that informs our interactions with the e...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Lethal mass partisanship

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I think everyone should read this lucid piece by Thomas Edsall, which describes the emerging consensus on the stark biological and evolved ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

MRI can detect the content of decisions 11 seconds before they are made.

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Goldhill points to and summarizes work of Koening-Rober and Pearson . Their abstract: Is it possible to predict the freely chosen content ...
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Monday, March 18, 2019

Why science needs philosophy

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I have always been in awe of the clarity and precision of the thinking of one of my Univ. of Wisconsin colleagues, philosopher Elliott Sobe...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Spinning drops!

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Here is a really neat, gee whiz kind of study : To make the water droplets spin, researchers first had to make sure they didn’t wet th...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Psychological underpinnings of politics

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I want to point to a number of commentaries on psychological determinants of political behavior that have been languishing in my queue of po...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Why is it so hard for democracy to deal with inequality? The Brahmins vs the Merchants

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I want to pass on an article that I wish I had made the subject of a longer post when it first appeared. Thomas Edsall, in " Why is i...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Social threat learning transfers to our decision making.

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Lindström et al. (open source) demonstrate that threat associations acquired both by social observation (e.g., through video) and by instru...
Monday, March 11, 2019

How sleep aids recovery from infection, may protect brain from Alzheimer's disease

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Dimitrov et al. show how a good night's sleep accelerates recovering from an infection. Glue like proteins (integrins) used by immune s...
Friday, March 08, 2019

How many push-ups can you do? Predicting heart health...

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Gretchen Reynolds points to work showing that men who could get through 40 or more push-ups had 96 percent less risk of heart problems in ...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

Control of OCD behavior by amygdala to prefrontal input.

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Sun et al. find a brain circuit in mice regulating OCD behavior that in humans might be susceptible to non drug manipulations such as trans...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Long term trends in politics - Trump is not an outlier

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A sobering analysis from Jordan et al.: Significance Donald Trump and a small group of emerging leaders around the world have been labe...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Even 10 minutes of low intensity physical activity enhances executive function in older adults

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Petrella et al. (open source) find that executive function in older adults is boosted almost immediately by low intensity exercise as brief...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Our emotional reward from music is modulated by dopamine.

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Ferreri et al. present evidence that enhancing or inhibiting dopamine signaling using levodopa or risperidone modulates the pleasure experi...