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The Neuroanatomical Correlates of Self-Sabotage
Self-Sabotage, byjesse.millanI should be preparing for a Very Important Presentation at an upcoming meeting. But I'm not. I'm sitting at home on a Saturday night, blogging about self-sabotage."Self...
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Can a Slow-Growing Brain Tumor Cause a Gambling Problem?
Maureen O’Connor, former mayor of San Diego and heir to her late husband Robert O. Peterson’s Jack-in-the-Box fortune, won over $1 billion playing video poker over the course of 9 years (2000-2009),...
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The Purring Center in Cats
Large black spots show points from which stimulation elicited purring. Small black spots show points in these sections which were stimulated without eliciting purring. Numerous other points in other...
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What Is This Thing Called Neuroscience?
"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -President Bill Clinton, August 17, 1998image:Brain electrodes, by laimagendelmundoDr. Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks wrote a terrific post on The...
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How Neuroscientists Scan the Media
In case you missed it, I had a guest post this week in Nature's SpotOn NYC series on Communication and the Brain (#BeBraiNY), held in conjunction with Brain Awareness Week. The theme concerned the...
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Distrust of Psychology
"There is a tendency among physiologists—among natural scientists generally—to look upon psychology with distrust, if not with indifference or scorn."-Yerkes (1904)Psychology has been having a crisis...
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Yerkes and Eugenics
"Eugenics, the art of breeding better men, imperatively demands reliable measurement of human traits of body and mind, of their inter-relations, and of their modification by environmental...
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Can Brain Activity Predict Criminal Reoffending?
Is it possible for a brain scan to predict whether a recently paroled inmate will commit another crime within 4 years? A new study by Aharoni et al. (2013) suggests that the level of activity within...
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Are Cognitive Factors Related to Criminal Reoffending?
Image from Graphic SociologyCan Brain Activity Predict Criminal Reoffending? The previous post discussed a functional MRI study suggesting that the level of error-related activation in the anterior...
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branscannr on drugs
Which is better: the generic or the name brand? Now drug companies have a tool to test out the moods induced by the name of their latest drug.brainscannrfree brain scans for everyone! Over thirty...
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Existential Dread of Absurd Social Psychology Studies
Scene from Rabbits by David Lynch“In a nameless city, deluged by a continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.”The latest "elegant and breathtaking"1 paper in Psychological Science...
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Does Tylenol Exert its Analgesic Effects via the Spinal Cord?
What do we (not) know about how paracetamol (acetaminophen) works? (Toussaint et al., 2010). . .From the beginning, the focus of the search for paracetamol’s analgesic mechanism has concentrated on the...
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Want to remember something? Clenching your fist doesn't help!
Image Credits: fist and brain.You might have seen this news story the other day:Want to remember something? Clench your fists!Giving a speech and need to remember what to say? Just clench your right...
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RDoC Dimensional Approach for Research vs. DSM-5 for Diagnosis
Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the U.S., recently announced that NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories:...While DSM has been...
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What RDoC Research Might Look Like
The month of May is a violent thingIn the city their hearts start to singWell, some people sing, it sounds like they're screamingI used to doubt it, but now I believe itMonth Of May ------The Arcade...
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The Mental Health of Lonely Marijuana Users
Mr. Lonely1Does Smoking Pot Offer Relief to the Lonely? A new paper by the original Tylenol and social pain researchers claims that it does (Deckman et al., 2013). Let's take a closer look.Comfortably...
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Can Pot Smoking Counter the Negative Metabolic Consequences of Atypical...
DISCLAIMER: This is a hypothetical question and not a medical recommendation. But it might be an idea worth investigating in epidemiological studies.Everyone knows that pot gives you the munchies. So...
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Lybrido for Low Libido?
A feature article in last week's New York Times Magazine served as an extended ad for a new book by Daniel Bergner, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire. It's filled with...
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How to Measure Female Desire
A Sexual Laboratory of One's Own, aka A Clean Well-Lighted Place for SexPsychophysiologic studies of sexual response should be done in a comfortable, well-designed laboratory to minimize subject...
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A New Biomarker for Treatment Response in Major Depression? Not Yet.
Is a laboratory test or brain scanning method for diagnosing psychiatric disorders right around the corner? How about a test to choose the best method of treatment? Many labs around the world are...
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