Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Why does awe have prosocial effects?

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An interesting perspective from Perlin and Li : Awe is an emotional response to stimuli that are perceived to be vast (e.g., tall trees, su...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Evidence that aerobic exercise reverses aging.

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Brett et al. show (in mice) that aerobic exercise rejuvenates quiescent skeletal muscle stem cells in old mice and accelerates muscle tissu...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Non-invasive DIY brain stimulators are a bad idea.

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I must admit that I've been sorely tempted to have a try with one of the transcranial magnetic or direct current stimulators, easily ord...
Monday, April 27, 2020

The deep historical roots of global economic inequality

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Nathan Nunn does an article which describes how a substantial part of the world’s current income differences can be explained by the diverg...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Changes in cerebral cortex functional organization in healthy elderly.

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Sigh.... Chong et al. offer a picture of how my 78 year old brain is more muddled than that of a ~23 year old male. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMEN...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

A review on transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation.

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Colzato and Beste review the literature on cognitive effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), with a focus on studies on n...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Effects of social media on well-being.

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Allcott et al. do a fascinating study examining the effects of getting a random sample of Facebook users to deactivate their accounts for 4...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Differential fertility makes society more conservative on family values

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From Vogl and Freese :   Significance “Family values” conservatives in the United States have more children and more siblings than th...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

Older adults proactively downregulate anticipated negative affect.

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Interesting work from Corbett et al. (open source): Previous studies have only investigated age-related differences in emotional process...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Looking at pictures makes your brain’s visual cortex swell!

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Wow, talk about dynamic neuroplasticity... Mansson et al (open source) take observations of how rapidly our brains can change to a whole n...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Progress toward gender equality in the United States has slowed or stalled

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From England et al. : Significance Social scientists have documented dramatic change in gender inequality in the last half century, so...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Gender differences in the brain connections that predict intelligence.

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From Jiang et al : Scores on intelligence tests are strongly predictive of various important life outcomes. However, the gender discrepancy...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Arthur Brooks launches a happiness column.

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It seems a bit strange to launch a column on happiness during a pandemic, but the social isolation that has been forced on us provides us wi...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Two sources on the state of America

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Like many MindBlog readers, I am reading countless articles on the current pandemic and its medical, economic, and social consequences. I ge...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Psychedelic psychiatry's brave new world, and a new rapid-acting antidepressannt

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I want to point to this open source article in Cell magazine, that provides an up to date review of resurrection of research into possible ...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Stress can be enhancing.

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Beibowitz and Crum do an Op-Ed piece that is worth a read, noting: Over a decade of research — ours and that of others — suggests that ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Self Help during the COVID-19 crisis.

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MindBlog is getting bombarded by emails from websites and organizations wanting to advertise their advice on how to cope with our current cr...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

The perils of nighttime dining

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Kelly et al. show that lipids in late evening snacks are less likely to be oxidized and most likely to be stored as fats than lipids in mor...
Monday, April 06, 2020

The lockdown turns out to NOT be an introvert's paradise.

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Contra my March 28 post on our current lock down being springtime for introverts, here are some slips from a salient article by Abby Ohlhei...
Friday, April 03, 2020

Rejuvenating aging human cells.

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Nicholas Wade points to important work by Stanford researchers showing they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a you...
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