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Answers to the Developmental Cog Neuro Quiz (and potential policy implications)
The "Guess the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker" contest yielded two correct guesses (both Martha Farah for #4) and six incorrect guesses. Basically, the entire exercise was an excuse to...
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Not tonight dear, I had zymosan A injected into my hind paw
We now have definitive proof that the propensity of womankind to postpone sex due to a headache is of evolutionary origin! This annoying habit has been traced back directly to a strain of...
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The Seductive Allure of Spintronics™ Neuroimaging mock mind reading scanner
Spintronics™ Neuroimaging mock scanner used in experiment by Ali, Lifshitz & Raz (2014)A new study has tricked undergraduates into believing that “Spintronics,” a whimsical new “mind reading”...
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The Smouldering Glances of Neuroscience Information
Neuroscience Information May Provide an Illusion of Explanatory DepthIn our continuing twilight saga on the seductive allure of all things neuroscientific comes this new entry by Rhodes et al. (2014)....
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Does Gamma tACS Really Induce Lucid Dreaming?
Dream scene from InceptionDIY brain stimulation geeks were supercharged last week by the finding that dream awareness could be enhanced by transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)1 at...
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Let's Face It: Publishing Weak Data on Face Processing in Pedophiles Is...
Modified from Fig. 2 (Ponseti et al., 2014). Brain areas that selectively respond to faces of the sexually preferred age. Just when we thought it was safe to bury the dead salmon of uncorrected...
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Feeling Mighty Unreal: Derealization in Kleine-Levin Syndrome
I went on this trip once, back to my hometown after a long absence. Have you ever felt that your surroundings seem odd and distant, and that you're completely detached from them? That the things and...
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Humble BRAIN 2025
“We believe this to be a moment in the science of the brain where our knowledge base, our new technical capabilities, and our dedicated and coordinated efforts can generate great leaps forward in just...
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And the DARPA deep brain stimulation awards go to...
...UCSF and MGH!Work on DARPA’s Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program is set to begin with teams led by UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Massachusetts General Hospital...
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The Neuroscience of the Future
Neural prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), “closed-loop” deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices, and a world without human brain disorders. The first three of these are already here... is the...
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Welcome to Douglas Coupland's Brain
A retrospective of an artist's work gives the viewer insight into their creative process over an extended period of time. In some cases, a retrospective seems to allow access into the artist's...
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Can a Failed Schizophrenia Drug Prevent PTSD?
In the 2000s, enthusiasm was high that a novel class of drugs would reach the market as blockbuster treatments for psychiatric disorders. These drugs act on receptors for a group of neuropeptides known...
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Scientology Tropes Enter Mainstream Neuroscience?
via @mallelisAt the literary/pop culture/feminist/humor blog known as The Toast, the hilarious Mallory Ortberg has skewered those ubiquitous ads from brain training behemoth Lumosity.The Five Stages Of...
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The Neurocritic Critiques Critical Neuroscience
I wanted to submit a paper for the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Research Topic on Critical Neuroscience: The context and implications of human brain research, but I couldn't decide what I should...
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Twitter Psychosis as a Cultural Artifact
UPDATE (Aug 6 2014): This story has spun entirely out of control, with breathless coverage at The Daily Dot and Jezebel. Today the hapless first author told NBC News: "No, at this point Twitter...
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Interview with Dr. Jan Kalbitzer, author of the "Twitter Psychosis" article
Today I'm chatting with Dr. Jan Kabitzer, a Physician and Leader of the Neurochemistry Research Group at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.Dr. Kabitzer is first author of the “Twitter Psychosis”...
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The Neuro Sci-Fi of the Near Future
NEUROTECH LIGHT AND DARK »Tweet length visions of our DARPA-funded futureThe Neurocritic has recently blogged about The Neuroscience of the Future:Neural prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces (BCI),...
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Autobiographical Memory for a Life-Threatening Airline Disaster
“My attention shifts to the fact that the comforting engine hum is eerily gone. Where has the comforting hum of the engines gone. Something has gone very, very wrong, the plane continued to...
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Whitman Was Not a Neuroscientist
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (from Leaves of Grass)Science is the search for objective truth based on...
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A Dangerous New Dish
Bibimbop Brugmansia ** Do NOT try this at home.Edible flowers can make for a beautiful garnish on salads and trendy Brooklyn cocktails, but these decorative flourishes can be a disaster for the...
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