Friday, January 31, 2020

Universality and diversity in human song

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In the same vein as the previous post on cultural variation and universal structures in music, another massive research collective reports o...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

What music makes us feel - 13 cross cultural categories

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From Cowen et al. : (Be sure to check out their striking visualization of the data . By moving the cursor about the screen you can listen t...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Repeated fake headlines feel more moral

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In a bit of work relevant to the current impeachment drama Effron and Raj find that repeatedly viewing a false headline increases approval ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Altruistic behaviors relieve physical pain.

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From Wang et al. , the fascinating observation that altruistic behavior diminishes both acute and chronic pain by damping activity in brain ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Childhood deprivation alters adult brains despite subsequent environmental enrichment.

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A sobering study from Mackes et al :   Significance Millions of children worldwide live in nonfamilial institutions. We studied impac...
Monday, January 20, 2020

What is your biological age? A problem with the epigenetic clock approach.

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Having already sent off blood samples to 23andMe and Helix , mainly out of curiosity over possible genome details relevant to my health (Ap...
Friday, January 17, 2020

The Mind-Body problem - How our brain talks to stress systems in our body.

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Dun et al. use a neuronal pathway tracking technique to show how different brain areas link to the adrenal medulla to connect its activity ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

You ideal job can be predicted by your social media behavior.

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So...are occupational guidance counselors going to be replaced by social media algorithms? From Kern et al.:   Significance Employment...
Monday, January 13, 2020

An alternative neural mechanism for treating anxiety disorders through safety signal learning.

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In these times of political polarization all over the world, over one third of all people experience anxiety disorders, in which circumstanc...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Great graphics - a review of cerebral cortex structure/folding from mice to humans.

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I pass on this open source review article for the small number of MindBlog readers who might find it useful in their teaching. The summary ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Brain aging reduced by elevating acetyl-CoA levels.

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Acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) is a central molecule in the energy metabolism of mitochondria in our cells. Currais et al. show that two Al...
Monday, January 06, 2020

The quiet brains of athletes

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An interesting study by Kraus and collaborators shows that athletes have larger responses to specified sounds than non-athletes, due to a ...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Anti-immigration sentiment does not correlate with local democraphic changes.

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Hill et al. analyze election results and demographic measures for almost 32,000 precincts in the states of Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Neva...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Increased emotional reactivity in men with high hair testosterone concentrations.

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As I was scanning the table of contents of the latest issue of the journal "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience" the artic...
Monday, December 30, 2019

We’ve just had the best decade (and year) in human history. Seriously

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To provide a faintly upbeat end of the year post, I want to point to a Matt Ridley piece in The Spectator that provides a bit of a tonic fo...
Friday, December 27, 2019

World in decline? New authoritarian age? - the dangers of declinism.

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These are times of high anxiety for both Red and Blue state America. A powerful Op-Ed by Roger Cohe n, in the wake of the British election, ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

For the holiday season - the gift of self care

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To acknowledge that today is a special one for a large fraction of humanity, I want to pass on Parker-Pope's description of suggestions ...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Is this what my grandson will be doing in a few years?

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My seven year old grandson Sebastian is a performer, taking piano lessons and reminding me a bit of myself when I was doing the same thing a...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Setting back our epigenic age?

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I would like to point to Josh Mitteldorf's Blog "Aging Matters", in particular " Pulsed Yamanaka Factors Set Back Epigen...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

MindBlog reviews the HealthyMinds App

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The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, established by my former University of Wisconsin colleague Richard Davidson, i...
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