Friday, July 29, 2022

Wolf attacks predict far-right voting

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Under MindBlog's category of "random curious stuff" I couldn't resist passing on the following bit of quirky political ana...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior

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Keysers et al. do an open source review of studies on emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, whose brain regions necessary ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice

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Highlights of an open source article from Paul Glimcher : A central question for decision-making scholars is: why are humans and animal...
Friday, July 22, 2022

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

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The title of this post repeats the title of Peter Zeihan's latest book , which I've just finished reading and found utterly fascinat...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Widespread ripples synchronize human cortical activity during sleep, waking, and memory recall

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I pass on the summaries of work by Dickey et al. :   Significance Different elements of a memory, or any mental event, are encoded in loca...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Restoring the aged brain with cerebrospinal fluid.

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The transfer of blood plasma from young animals to old animals, has been shown to reverse aging changes in the brain, and now Iram et al . s...
Friday, July 15, 2022

How the organization of generalized knowledge promotes memory.

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From Wing et al. : Significance What we remember is shaped by what we already know. For example, remembering the angelfish from a recent ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

fNIRS - Functional near Iinfrared spectroscopy as a monitor of brain activity

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, requires that a subject remain still for an extended period within the confines of a large, ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - a fascinating journal, many open source articles

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Rather than charging in to do separate posts on several of the following fascinating articles, I pass them on for readers to click and choos...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Stress in older adults accelerates immune system aging.

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Seo does a summary article that points to the work of Klopak et al. The Klopak et al. abstract:   Significance As the world’s population...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

How stress focuses brain integration

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From Wang et al. (open source, with good graphics): Despite the prevalence of stress, how brains reconfigure their multilevel, hierarchical...
Monday, July 04, 2022

Truly Humbled....

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I came across this David Brooks piece while scanning the Atlantic Magazine App on my iPad this morning, and then found on checking my email...
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Friday, July 01, 2022

Reduction of stress and inflammatory responses by transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation

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I want to point to an article by Caron that reviews work investigating therapeutic effects of stimulating our vagus nerve, two large nerve ...

The self-immolation of the American progressive left

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MindBlog has been sticking with science lately, majorly dialing down the number of political posts that started appearing at the onset of th...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Theories of consciousness

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A valuable summary article from Anil Seth and Time Bayne. The article has excelent graphics demonstrating the four main models of conscious...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

The allure of conspiracy theories.

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Edsall does a nice essay on the allure of conspiracy theories which are playing a significant role in the current decline of a humane Ameri...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Magnetic stimulation of the brain can improve cognitive impairment

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An open source article from Liu et al. in the journal Cerebral Cortex reports that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Effortless training of attention and self-control

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I pass on the highlights statement from a fascinating opinion piece by Tang et al. (motivated readers can obtain a copy of the text from me...
Monday, June 20, 2022

MindBlog in Crypto-Land

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Unless you have been hiding in a cave (not a bad place to be these days) you have doubtless been following the current crash of the stock ma...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

Testerone production in adult men is regulated by an adolescent period sensitive to family experiences.

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 From Gettler et al. : Significance Testosterone influences how animals devote energy and time toward reproduction, including opposing de...
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