Friday, February 28, 2020

Optimism and longevity.

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I want to point to recent articles relevant to an issue most of us mull about: "Is my glass half empty or half full?" Jane Brody...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

A magic mushroom nose spray for psychedelic microdosing?

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Rich Haridy does an interesting article in New Atlas . A few clips: Alongside the rapidly progressing psychedelic science movement, with...
Monday, February 24, 2020

The role of memory suppression in resilience after trauma.

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Mary et al. report the neural differences that control the retrieval of traumatic memories in 102 individuals who were affected by the Pari...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Imposter syndrome threatens diversity

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I have experienced the 'Imposter Syndrome' since childhood, which motivates me to pass on this open source letter to Science Magazi...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Winner of Dance your PhD 2019 contest - Social experiences in larval zebrafish and their brains

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The videos of several of the contestants can be see at this link , where you will also find a description of the work and people behind the ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

MindBlog is starting its 15th year...

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I’ve just realized that MindBlog, whose first post was on February 8, 2006, has just entered its 15th year. That first post, “Dangerous Id...
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Friday, February 14, 2020

Mindfulness as an antidote to the intrusions of artificial intelligence?

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I want to point to a very interesting New Yorker Magazine article by Ian Parker describing the life and ideas of Yuval Harari, whose work h...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Amazing technology - a total body PET scanner with 100ms resolution.

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From Zhang et al. at UC Davis (check out the video, showing injection of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose into a vein in the right leg): A 194-cm...
Friday, February 07, 2020

Economic Inequality increases desire for a strong leader.

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From Sprong et al. , studies very relevant to the current political climate in the U.S., and worldwide: Societal inequality has been found ...
Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Resilient misinformation in a crisis

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From Carey et al. : Disease epidemics and outbreaks often generate conspiracy theories and misperceptions that mislead people about the ris...
Monday, February 03, 2020

How much are we misled by inauthentic internet content? Perhaps not much...

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Bail et al. analyze data describing attitudes and online behaviors of Republican and Democratic Twitter users from late 2017 and find no ev...
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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