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The Dark Side of Diagnosis by Brain Scan
Washington Post.Daniel Amen: Pioneer or profiteer?: Psychiatrist Daniel Amen uses brain scans to diagnose mental illness. Most peers say that’s bonkers.Right on the heels of a Molecular Psychiatry...
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Predicting Brain Age from 231 Neuroanatomical Measures
Is your child's brain on track to reach normal developmental milestones? A paper in Current Biology reports on a new, composite neuroanatomical metric of maturity that predicts 92% of the variance in...
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The Art of Delicate Sadness
Sad Noh masks(from Fig. 1 of Osaka et al., 2012).Noh is a traditional style of Japanese theater where the actors wear masks to convey facial expressions. Many of the masks are known for their...
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Complainers Kill Neurons! How to save yourself from this menace.
"That pain you feel listening to complainers? It's real enough to peel away neurons from your brain and render it pretty much useless, reports Inc."[That pain you feel reading ridiculous made-up...
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Feminist Dopamine, Conscious Vaginas, and the Goddess Array
Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?Naomi Wolf, the famous feminist author and activist, asks that precise question in her new book, Vagina: A New Biography. At first glance, it strikes me as an...
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The Electroencephalogram Cocktail Party
In 2005, filmmaker Joyce Draganosky made a short entitled The Science of Love, where......the battle between reason and emotion takes center stage. A professor, who believes she has found a way of...
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Journomarketing of Neurobollocks
Are you one of the few Anglophones who haven't yet heard about the frightening new fields of neuromarketing and neuroeconomics? Or that pop neuroscience is popular? Well thank god we have Steven Poole...
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Of Mice and Women: Animal Models of Desire, Dread, and Despair
Scene from Mon Oncle d'Amérique by Alain ResnaisDr. James G. Pfaus, a Professor of Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, recently wrote a post in defense of Naomi Wolf's neuroscience acumen....
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Law and Order: Psychiatry Unit
Crime dramas on American television are known for loosely adapting actual news stories "ripped from the headlines" and calling them fiction. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit is especially known for...
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Surrealistic Imaging Experiment #1
"The case against the realist position needs to be considered, after considering the materialist position. The latter, more poetic however than the former, admittedly implies on the part of a Man, a...
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Surrealistic Imaging Experiment #2
Scene from Le sang d'un poète (1930, Jean Cocteau) 1"It is often said that The Blood of a Poet is a surrealist film. However, surrealism did not exist when I first thought of it." -Jean Cocteau 2In our...
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Savoir Faire or Savant?
Is amygdala volume correlated with social network size or with special talents in autism spectrum disorders? Or both??The amygdala is a subcortical structure located within the medial temporal lobes....
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Tenure-Track Position in Neuroetiquette and Gender Theory
Department of Critical Socioneurobiology.Pending approval of departmental funds, the North Dakota School for Social Research is seeking outstanding candidates for its newly developed Interdisciplinary...
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Neuroetiquette and Neuroculture
Discover neuro-etiquette: fork and knife in actionAre neuroscientists taking jobs away from philosophers, sociologists and gender theorists?"We need a neurocultural manifesto because the brain has been...
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Blow Your Mind with Hostile THINKIES
Brain Filled Hostile THINKIES! Wacky Packages Original Series8th Series - 1974
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(Every Day Is) Halloween
...with The Neurocritic's Halloween and Horror archive!The Synapse, Spooky Issue 10 The Brain That Wouldn't DieCarnival of SoulsCerebro MuertoHate On Halloween El Día de los Políticos MuertosThe...
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New research provides fresh evidence that bogus press releases may depend...
This Is Your Brain On Press Releases: Neuroscience Reveals Brain Differences Between Writers and ConsumersScienceDally (Nov. 1, 2012)— New research from the University of South Carolina provides fresh...
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Cotard's Syndrome: Not Pretending That We're Dead
Playing dead game -- A craze called the "playing dead game" has swept this nation where people of all ages stage elaborate death scenes everyplace. Believing That We're DeadCotard's Syndrome is the...
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The Neuroscience of Speed Dating Choice
Can brain activity measured while rating potential dates predict later choices at speed dating events?Haven't you lay awake at night wondering if 36 voxels in your rostromedial prefrontal cortex...
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Vicodin for Social Exclusion
Cyberball (with apologies to Kipling D. Williams).Cyberball (not the Atari version) is a virtual game designed by social psychologists to be a model for social rejection and ostracism (Williams et al.,...
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