Monday, February 27, 2023

Possible mechanism of psychedelic therapeutic effects

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From the latest issue of Science Magazine:   The mechanism underlying psychedelic action Psychedelic compounds promote cortical structura...
Friday, February 24, 2023

MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is…

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The following links are from a recent scan of what pops up if I click on items in ‘Selected MindBlog Categories’ in the right column of this...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A fish passes the mirror self recognition test!

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Our human abilities continue to found in more evolutionarily distant species. From Kohda et al. : Some animals have the remarkable capacit...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain works.

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The February Issue of Trends in Cognitive Science has an open source Opinions article from Lisa Feldman Barrett and collaborators that sugg...
Friday, February 17, 2023

The touch sensitive nerve cells that make mice (and probably us) horny.

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From Elias et al. (open source) in the journal Cell:   Highlights • Activation of Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons induces lordosi...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A.I. as a path towards mass lunacy

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MindBlog wants to be part of the passing on of this elegantly stated clip from an article by novelist, literary critic, and essayist Walte...
Monday, February 13, 2023

An fMRI marker of drug and food craving

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Koban et al. identify an fMRI-based neural signature of craving that is common to both food and drugs, predicts self-reported craving, disti...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net.

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In an open source article in the January issue of the American Economic Review East et al. show that early life exposure to Medicaid enhanc...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Shifting from foraging to farming, beginning ~12,000 years ago, changed everything.

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A special Feature section in the Jan. 17 issue of PNAS offers a series of perspectives on the past 12,000 years of human behavior, adaptatio...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Openness to spiritual experiences...with caution

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After a Protestant Christian upbringing (I was a teenage organist in an Austin Lutheran Church, and took a course from theologian Paul Tilli...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Cryptocurrency isn't going away - any more that Gold is...

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...as long as cryptocurrency maintains a core of true believers in the block chain concept for guaranteeing trustworthiness. All currencies ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Market exposure and human morality

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In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society, and specious claims that we can't have a moral socie...
Monday, January 30, 2023

How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

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I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity. I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monit...
Friday, January 27, 2023

MindBlog's 2010 recital and lecture in Istanbul

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I've been meandering back over old MindBlog posts and found an orphaned .mov file that I've reposted to my YouTube channel, quite a...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Our different styles of thinking.

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An interesting recent article by Joshua Rothman , the ideas editor of newyorker.com, notes several recent books that describe different styl...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is....

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Spilling out what I was thinking at breakfast this morning, deciding to fire it off, probably incomprehensible to most readers, perhaps to a...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present

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Zhou et al. (open source) do an interesting experiment on mindfulness and brain network control:   Significance Practicing mindfulness he...
Monday, January 16, 2023

COVID-19 and brain aging

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Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays I was hit first by a mild Covid infection that lasted only a few days (I've had all 5 vac...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Materialism meets transcendence

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I want to pass on the URL to a PBS series by Alan Lightman that I plan to start watching as soon as I can, based on the following descripti...