Monday, August 30, 2021

Two Americas

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I've been trying to dial down MindBlog's mention of our current domestic turmoil and debate, but I can't resist passing on this ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

NPR's "Joy Generator"

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Try this antidote if you have the Sunday blahs.
Friday, August 27, 2021

Douthat's Guide to Finding Faith

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I recommend that you read through Douthat's elegant exposition of the continuing relevance of some form of religious faith. I paste in...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Well-being of the aging brain - from the Univ.of Wisc. Center for Healty Minds

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I am a supporter of the Center for Healthy Minds  at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which was established and is lead by one of my fo...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Research experiences and social justice

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In the Editor's Choice section of the July 23 issue of Science Magazine Melissa McCarntney does a brief description of a biomedical re...
Friday, August 20, 2021

YouTube algorithms do not appear to drive attention to radical content.

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From Hosseinmardi et al. ;   Significance Daily share of news consumption on YouTube, a social media platform with more than 2 billion m...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Castration delays aging

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I pass on this nugget by Beverly Purnell in the Editor's Choice section of this week's Science Magazine noting an interesting paper...
Monday, August 16, 2021

What is our brain's spontaneous activity for?

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Continuing in MindBlog's recent thread on the predictive brain (see here and here ), I pass on highlights of an opinion piece by Pezzul...
Friday, August 13, 2021

The connections between two brain regions that are required for consciousness are regulated by dopamine.

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Important work from Spindler et al. :   Significance Understanding the neural bases of consciousness is of basic scientific and clinical ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

How the insiders win - Philanthropy, advocacy, and profit.

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From Bertrand et al. , a study showing how U.S. Federal rulemaking based on considering "independent viewpoints" is corrupted: ...
Monday, August 09, 2021

Electromagnetic radiation in the wireless signal range increases wakefulness in mice

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Liu et al. (open source) find that electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in the wireless signal range used by our cell phones, laptops, and Wi-Fi...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Seeing others react to threats triggers our own internal threat responses.

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From Haaker et al. (open source) :  Significance Social transmission of threat information by observation is effective in humans and other...
Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Historical language records reveal societal depression and anxiety in past two decades higher than during 20th century.

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Fascinating work from Bollen et al. (open source) :   Significance Can entire societies become more or less depressed over time? Here, we...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Our gut microbiome pattern reflects healthy aging and survival

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Interesting analysis by Wilmanski et al. : The gut microbiome has important effects on human health, yet its importance in human ageing rem...
Friday, July 30, 2021

How our brain cortex changes in the transition from childhood to adolescence.

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This open source article from Dong et al. has some excellent summary graphics:   Significance Here, we describe age-dependent shifts in ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Graphic depictions of an integrative model of mind

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To hopefully enhance the chance that you will pay attention to the creative and seminal thinking in the open source Laukkonen and Slagter re...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Stable individual differences in infants’ responses to violations of intuitive physics

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Interesting observations by Perez and Feigenson : Infants look longer at impossible or unlikely events than at possible events. While these...
Friday, July 23, 2021

A place in the brain for the sense of ‘self’

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Fascinating observations from Parvizi et al , whose findings provide a causal link between the right anterior and dorsal posteromedial corte...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

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I had a chat with my former University of Wisconsin colleague Richard Davidson during my visit to Madison, WI last week, and he pointed me t...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo

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Interesting results from Shao et al. :    Highlights • Psilocybin ameliorates stress-related behavioral deficit in mice  • ...