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Can a Computer Algorithm Identify Suicidal People from Brain Scans? The...
Just et al. 2017Death by suicide is a preventable tragedy if the suicidal individual is identified and receives appropriate treatment. Unfortunately, some suicidal individuals do not signal their...
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Brief Guide to the CTE Brains in the News. Part 1: Aaron Hernandez
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the neurodegenerative disease of the moment, made famous by the violent and untimely deaths of many retired professional athletes. Repeated blows to the head...
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Brief Guide to the CTE Brains in the News. Part 2: Fred McNeill
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the neurodegenerative disease of the moment, made famous by the violent and untimely deaths of many retired professional athletes. Repeated blows to the head...
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Amygdala Stimulation in the Absence of Emotional Experience Enhances Memory...
The amygdala is a small structure located within the medial temporal lobes (MTL), consisting of a discrete set of nuclei. It has a reputation as the “fear center” or “emotion center” of the brain,...
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Least Popular Posts of 2017
2017 was a really bad year. The U.S. is more divided than ever, the truth is meaningless, well-researched journalism is called FAKE NEWS, the President lies once every minute, white supremacist rallies...
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Sexual Violence is Horrible, But First Look at Causes Outside the Brain
"At the brain level, empathy for social exclusion of personalized women recruited areas coding the affective component of pain (i.e., anterior insula and cingulate cortex), the somatosensory components...
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I should have done this by now...
Today marks the day of 12 years of blogging. Twelve years! During this time, I've managed to remain a mysterious pseudonym to almost everyone. Very few people know who I am.But a lot has changed since...
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Head Impact and Hyperphosphoralated Tau in Teens
We all agree that repeated blows to the head are bad for the brain. What we don't yet know is:who will show lasting cognitive and behavioral impairmentswho will show only transient sequelae (and for...
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Policy Insights from The Neurocritic: Alarm Over Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen...
Just in time for Valentine's Day, floats in a raft of misleading headlines:Scientists have found the cure for a broken heartPainkillers may also mend a broken heartTaking painkillers could ease...
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Universal Linguistic Decoders are Everywhere
Pereira et al. (2018) - click image to enlargeNo, they're not. They're really not. They're “everywhere” to me, because I've been listening to Black Celebration. How did I go from “death is everywhere”...
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25 Years of Cognitive Neuroscience in Boston
The 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society starts off with a big bang on Saturday afternoon with the Big Theory versus Big Data Debate, moderated by David Poeppel.1Big Theory versus...
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Automatically-Triggered Brain Stimulation during Encoding Improves Verbal...
Fig. 4 (modified from Ezzyat et al., 2018). Stimulation targets showing numerical increase/decrease in free recall performance are shown in red/blue. Memory-enhancing sites clustered in the middle...
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Big Theory, Big Data, and Big Worries in Cognitive Neuroscience
Big Theory vs. Big Data Debate at CNS2018Eve Marder, Alona Fyshe, Jack Gallant, David Poeppel, Gary Marcusimage by @jonasobleserWhat Will Solve the Big Problems in Cognitive Neuroscience?That was the...
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The Fractionation of Auditory Semantic Knowledge: Agnosia for Bird Calls
How is semantic knowledge represented and stored in the brain? A classic way of addressing this question is via single-case studies of patients with brain lesions that lead to a unique pattern of...
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“My family say they grieve for the old me” – profound personality changes...
Okun (2012). New England Journal of Medicine.Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease (PD) has been highly successful in controlling the motor symptoms of this...
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What counts as "memory" and who gets to define it?
Do Plants Have “Memory”?A new paper by Bédécarrats et al. (2018) is the latest entry into the iconoclastic hullabaloo claiming a non-synaptic basis for learning and memory. In short, “RNA extracted...
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Citric Acid Increases Balloon Inflation (aka sour taste makes you more risky)
from Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART)– Joggle Research for iPadRisk taking and risk preference1 are complex constructs measured by self-report questionnaires (“propensity”), laboratory tasks, and the...
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The Lie of Precision Medicine
My next blog post will be entitled "The Lie of Precision Medicine"— sarcastic_f (@sarcastic_f) June 23, 2018This post will be my own personalized rant about the false promises of personalized medicine....
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An epidemic of "Necessary and Sufficient" neurons
A great deal of neuroscience has become “circuit cracking.” — Alex Gomez-MarinA miniaturized holy grail of neuroscience is discovering that activation or inhibition of a specific population of neurons...
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Improved Brain Health for All! (update on the BRAIN initiative)
adapted from Figure 3 (Koroshetz et al., 2018). Magnetic resonance angiography highlighting the vasculature in the human brain in high resolution, without the use of any contrast agent, on a 7T MRI...
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