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Depth Electrodes or Digital Biomarkers? The future of mood monitoring
Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) vs. Mindstrong HealthMood Monitoring via Invasive Brain Recordings or Smartphone SwipesWhich Would You Choose?That's not really a fair question. The ultimate goal of...
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#CNS2019
It's March, an odd-numbered year, must mean.... it's time for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting to be in San Francisco!I only started looking at the schedule yesterday and noticed the...
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An Amicable Discussion About Psychology and Neuroscience
People like conflict (the interpersonal kind, not BLUE).1 Or at least, they like scientific debate at conferences. Panel discussions that are too harmonious seem to be divisive. Some people will say,...
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Does ketamine restore lost synapses? It may, but that doesn't explain its...
Bravado SPRAVATO™ (esketamine)© Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019. Ketamine is the miracle drug that cures depression:“Recent studies report what is arguably the most important discovery in half a...
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The Paracetamol Papers
I have secretly obtained a large cache of files from Johnson & Johnson, makers of TYLENOL®, the ubiquitous pain relief medication (generic name: acetaminophen in North America, paracetamol...
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The Secret Lives of Goats
Goats Galore (May 2019)If you live in a drought-ridden, wildfire-prone area on the West Coast, you may see herds of goats chomping on dry grass and overgrown brush. This was initially surprising for...
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'I Do Not Exist' - Pathological Loss of Self after a Buddhist Retreat
Eve is plagued by a waking nightmare.‘I do not exist. All you see is a shell with no being inside, a mask covering nothingness. I am no one and no thing. I am the unborn, the non-existent.’– from...
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The Shock of the Unknown in Aphantasia: Learning that Visual Imagery Exists
Qualia are private. We don’t know how another person perceives the outside world: the color of the ocean, the sound of the waves, the smell of the seaside, the exact temperature of the water. Even more...
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Is there an objective test for Aphantasia?
Still image from Kaleidoscopes for Binocular RivalryHow well do we know our own inner lives? Self-report measures are a staple of psychiatry, neuroscience, and all branches of psychology (clinical,...
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Brain Awareness Video Contest 2019
What Color is Monday? This video on synesthesia is one of the Top Ten videos in the Society for Neuroscience Brain Awareness Video Contest. Voting for the 2019 People's Choice Award closes 12 p.m....
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Manipulating Visual Cortex to Induce Hallucinations
from Terence McKenna - Ayahuasca StoriesWhat is a hallucination? The question seems simple enough. “A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real...
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Ivanka Trump to Head New Agency of Precrime
A Precog capable of predicting future crimes in the film version of Minority Report.In a strange twist suitable for the dystopian reality show broadcast from the West Wing dining room, a charity formed...
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Are there evil people or only evil acts?
“I can guarantee that someone in the world thinks you are evil. Do you eat meat? Do you work in banking? Do you have a child out of wedlock? You will find that things that seem normal to you don't seem...
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Is Mourning Rewarding? (revisited)
Can we reduce the persistent, unbearable pain of losing a loved one to 15-20 voxels of brain activity in the nucleus accumbens (O'Connor et al., 2008)? No? Then what if I told you that unrelenting...
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The Neural Correlates of Channeling the Dead
November 2nd is the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday to honor the memory of lost loved ones. If you subscribe to certain paranormal belief systems, the ability to communicate with the dearly departed...
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Olfactory Attraction and Smell Dating
Smell Dating, an interactive exhibit by Tega Brain and Sam Lavigneat The Glass Room.A conceptual art installation, an extended olfactory performance piece, an elaborate participatory project, or an...
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Pheromone Friday
Pheromones, emitted chemicals that elicit a social response in members of the same species, have been most widely studied in insects as a mode of communication. In the insect world, pheromones can...
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Computational Psychiatry, Self-Care, and The Mind-Body Problem
Schematic example of how the “mind” (cerebral cortex) is connected to the “body” (adrenal gland) - modified from Fig. 1 (Dum et al., 2016):“Modern medicine has generally viewed the concept of...
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People Neurology: Bennet versus Ann feud captured live!
In a People Neurology exclusive, contentious footage of Dr. Ann McKee and Dr. Bennet Omalu was captured at the 5th Annual Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Conference. Dr. Omalu was not invited due to...
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Netflix Neurology: Inside the Brain of Aaron Hernandez (for a few seconds)
from Dr. Ann McKee / Boston UniversityA recent addition to the Netflix “making a murderer” franchise is Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez. At the end of any such story, there is no single...
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