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Sleep Doctoring: Fatigue Amnesia in Physicians
New in the journal journal Cortex: four shocking cases of practicing medicine while exhausted (Dharia & Zeman, 2016). The authors called this newly discovered syndrome “fatigue amnesia.” Why this...
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Don't Lose Your Head Over tDCS
Recent studies of transcranial electrical stimulation in human cadaver heads showed a 90% loss of current when delivered through the skin (Buzsáki, 2016 CNS meeting).Siren SongBy Margaret AtwoodThis is...
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What We Think We Know and Don't Know About tDCS
image:Mihály Vöröslakos / University of Szeged “Don't Lose Your Head Over tDCS,” I warned last time. Now the infamous cadaver study has reared its ugly hot-wired head in Science News (Underwood,...
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The Truth About Cognitive Impairment in Retired NFL Players
NINETY-TWO percent of retired National Football League players have decreased cognitive function, according to a new study:“In the NFL group, baseline neuropsychological assessments showed 92% of...
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Imagine These Experiments in Aphantasia
When you hear the word “apple”, do you picture a Red Delicious apple or a green Granny Smith? Or neither, because you can't conjure up a visual image of an apple (or of anything else, for that matter)?...
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Acetaminophen Probably Isn't an "Empathy Killer"
Left: Belgian physician Dr. Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist, professor in palliative care and the president of the Belgian federal euthanasia commission.Right: Generic acetaminophen.What (or who)...
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Compulsive Foreign Language Syndrome: Man Becomes Obsessed With Speaking Fake...
You may have seen headlines such as: Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Or: Englishman wakes up speaking Welsh after stroke (“Rare brain disorder left English-speaking Alun...
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Advil Increases Social Pain (if you're male)
Headache, Guillaume DELEBARRE (Guigui-Lille)A recent neuroessay in the New York Times asked, Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?What’s crazy about the pain of a broken heart is that your body...
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In Oxytocin We Trust
Oh oxytocin, you cuddly hug drug, you fine upstanding moral molecule, why are you so maligned by critics? That's because you're overrated, and misunderstood by those who look to you as a beacon of...
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Newly Discovered EEG Rhythm Related to Texting, or Cell Phone Artifact?
Texting Zombie (by Ian Aberle)Contemporary consumers of science infotainment “need” to understand that the brain responds to modern technology in an unprecedented and potentially sinister way. Or at...
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Professor Richard Frackowiak on Retirement (and the Human Brain Project)
A neuroimaging pioneer, distinguished Professor Richard Frackowiak, has come out in favor of retirement:I retired aged 65 – I am known for being very pro-retirement. Older scientists should advise, if...
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A New Twist on Some Old Brain Myths
1. We only use 4 to 5% of our brains.The usual ten percent myth is wrong, according to Brain Vizion. We have even more untapped potential waiting to be unlocked!Brain is the most complex organ in the...
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Clinical Trial for Alzheimer's Disease - Is LMTX Ineffective or Unprecedented?
AustrianTribune.comNew ScientistSo which is it? Ineffective or unprecedented?TauRx Alzheimer's Drug LMTX Fails in Large Study Although Some Benefit SeenWednesday, 27 Jul 2016 | 11:23 AM ET TauRx...
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Scientific Study Shows Mediums Are Wrong 46.2% of the Time
Not a very good showing, eh?Here's our latest study on mediumship: "Prediction of Mortality Based on Facial Characteristics". Available here: https://t.co/jVMHmF07Dj— Dean Radin (@DeanRadin) May 21,...
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Healing Prayer and the Brain: Not a Match Made in Heaven
Activity of the medial prefrontal cortex after psycho-spiritual healing (Baldwin et al., 2016).Everything we do and feel and experience changes the brain. Psychotherapy, juggling, taxi driving,...
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Music from Your Brain
The journal Brain has a new review on the history of converting the electroencephalogram (EEG) into sound (Lutters & Koehler, 2016). The translation of data into sound, known as sonification, has...
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Pain, Synesthesia, Aging, The Dress, and more
Vote for your favorites in the 2016Brain Awareness Video Contest!You can submit up to two votes for The People's Choice Award. You don't need to be a member of the Society for Neuroscience.Deadline:...
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The Neural Lace Tour
Stevie Nicks and Elon Musk— finally together in this stunning collection...ElonYou have the limbic system, the cortex and a digital layer above the cortex that could work well and symbiotically with...
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Self-Appointed Destructive Critic
by @bahniks - click on image for a larger viewBy now, those of you familiar with the “methodological terrorism” controversy (PDF) are probably sick of it. I won't go into any detail, other than to say...
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