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Daylight Savings Time and "The Dress"
もう何番煎じかも分からないけど例のドレス問題をまとめてみました。青黒/白金に見える人の色覚やモニタを疑ってる人はぜひご覧ください。 pic.twitter.com/6euNYw9xUa— ぶどう茶 (@budoucha) February 27, 2015Could one's chronotype (degree of "morningness" vs. "eveningness") be...
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Update on the BROADEN Trial of DBS for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Website for the BROADEN™ study, which was terminatedIn these days of irrational exuberance about neural circuit models, it's wise to remember the limitations of current deep brain stimulation (DBS)...
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Follow #CNS2015
Whether or not you're in sunny San Francisco for the start of Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting today, you can follow Nick Wan's list of conference attendees on Twitter: @nickwan/#CNS2015. There's...
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Cognitive Neuroscience 2015: State of the Union
What can we do to solve the mind/body problem once and for all? How do we cure devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and depression? I am steadfast in following the...
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Trends in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience 2015
What are the Hot Topics in cognitive neuroscience? We could ask these people, or we could take a more populist approach by looking at conference abstracts. I consulted the program for the recent...
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FDA says no to marketing FDDNP for CTE
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently admonished TauMark™, a brain diagnostics company, for advertising brain scans that can diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Alzheimer's...
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Tylenol Doesn't Really Blunt Your Emotions
A new study has found that the pain reliever TYLENOL® (acetaminophen) not only dampens negative emotions, it blunts positive emotions too. Or does it?Durso and colleagues (2015) reckoned that if...
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Shooting the Phantom Head (perceptual delusional bicephaly)
I have two headsWhere's the man, he's late--Throwing Muses, Devil's RoofMedical journals are enlivened by case reports of bizarre and unusual syndromes. Although somaticdelusions are relatively common...
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Capgras for Cats and Canaries
Capgras syndrome is the delusion that a familiar person has been replaced by a nearly identical duplicate. The imposter is usually a loved one or a person otherwise close to the patient.Originally...
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Use of Anti-Inflammatories Associated with Threefold Increase in Homicides
Scene from Elephant, a fictional film by Gus Van SantRegular use of over-the-counter pain relievers like aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and acetaminophen was associated with three times the risk of...
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8 1/2 Reward Prediction Errors: #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup
Fellini/Schultz: 8½ Reward Prediction ErrorsOn Twitter, movie/brain buff My Cousin Amygdala issued the #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup challenge using the following selections:I made a few movie...
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The Future of Depression Treatment
2014Jessica is depressed again. After six straight weeks of overtime, her boss blandly praised her teamwork at the product launch party. And the following week she was passed over for a promotion in...
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Who Will Pay for All the New DBS Implants?
Recently, Science and Nature had news features on big BRAIN funding for the development of deep brain stimulation technologies. The ultimate aim of this research is to treat and correct malfunctioning...
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Can Tetris Reduce Intrusive Memories of a Trauma Film?
For some inexplicable reason, you watched the torture gore horror film Hostel over the weekend. On Monday, you're having trouble concentrating at work. Images of severed limbs and bludgeoned heads keep...
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Scary Brains and the Garden of Earthly Deep Dreams
In case you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, Google's foray into artificial neural networkshas yielded hundreds of thousands of phantasmagoric images. The company has an obvious interest...
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The Idiosyncratic Side of Diagnosis by Brain Scan and Machine Learning
R2D3R2D3 recently had a fantastic Visual Introduction to Machine Learning, using the classification of homes in San Francisco vs. New York as their example. As they explain quite simply: In machine...
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Will machine learning create new diagnostic categories, or just refine the...
How do we classify and diagnose mental disorders?In the coming era of Precision Medicine, we'll all want customized treatments that “take into account individual differences in people’s genes,...
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Cats on Treadmills (and the plasticity of biological motion perception)
Cats on a treadmill. From Treadmill Kittens.It's been an eventful week. The 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The 10th Anniversary of Optogenetics (with commentary from the neuroscience community...
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Mind Reading in the Red Room of "Listening"
"How am I supposed to work knowing that guy is listening to every thought that's going through my head? This is insane..."David Thorogood and Ryan Cates are poor but brilliant Cal Tech grad students in...
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Neurohackers Gone Wild!
Scene from Listening, a new neuro science fiction film by writer-director Khalil Sullins. What are some of the goals of research in human neuroscience?To explain how the mind works.To unravel the...
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