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A Conversation on "MINDLESS NEUROSCIENCE"
Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld in conversation with David Brooks.NY Times columnist David Brooks had a dualist epiphany: the brain is not the mind.It...
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All Washed Up
BrainWash Cafe & LaundromatThe popular press has been a major contributor to facile views of neuroimaging. So it seems ironic that everywhere you look, the new book Brainwashed: The Seductive...
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The Pre-Registration Challenge
Open Science Framework - There have been no registrations.A number of scientists have been vocal proponents of study pre-registration, in which detailed methodological and statistical plans for an...
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Meet The Neurocomplimenter
The Neurocomplimenter is a new project designed to counter gratuitous anti-neuroscience sentiment. It’s part of my campaign to combat pop neurobashing profiteers.After seven years of critical...
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The Stylized Neuroscience of Psychopaths
The eighth and final season of the hit series Dexter takes a scientific look at serial killers. British actress Charlotte Rampling plays Dr. Evelyn Vogel, a neuropsychiatrist who has written the...
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The Destructive Power of Shame
Shame is a negative self-conscious emotion that encompasses the feeling that something is terribly wrong with the self as a human being. Feelings of shame are a prominent factor in suicidal thoughts,...
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Jesus Christ and The Passion of Neuroscience
The case of the seriously confused book coverNeuroscience, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Behavioral Neurology: Emotion, Evolution, Development, Cognition, Language, Memory, Brain Damage,...
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Rorschach inkblots and the neuroscientific basis for pareidolia
image via psychpsychbabyA fascinating new historical article in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry reviews the aesthetic and perceptual aspects of the Rorschach inkblots and...
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(De)Merit Badges for Non-Preregistered Research
Will Study Pre-Registration Be Good for Psychology? There has been a lively debate recently about study pre-registration, a publishing model (or online repository) where detailed methodological and...
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Breakthroughs in Bipolar Treatment
"We should continue to repurpose treatments and to recognise the role of serendipity" (Geddes & Miklowitz, 2013).That quote was from a recent review article in The Lancet, which did not hint at any...
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Possession Trance Disorder Caused by Door-to-Door Sales
Some companies and organizations that employ door-to-door sales tactics are known for their cult-like practices (e.g., Amway, traveling magazine sales, and Jehovah's Witnesses). An unusual psychiatric...
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Save Us From Misleading Press Releases
Exposure to subliminal cues can help us choose the apple instead of the cake. Or can it... Let's take a look.Our Brains Can (Unconsciously) Save Us from TemptationAug. 8, 2013— Inhibitory self control...
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End of Life Gamma Waves: Altered State of Consciousness or Artifactual Brain...
"I had been in labor for my daughter for 16 hours. The labor was difficult and the Dr. approached me and told me it may come down to a choice between the child or myself. ... The labor dragged on and...
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The Art of Resurrection
Resurrection, Raffaellino del Garbo (1510)In the world outside of Christianity, horror, and science fiction, the dead cannot be brought back to life. Or can they? A feature in the The Observer from...
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Update on Ketamine in Palliative Care Settings
Many recent headlines have heralded a new use for the old veterinary anesthetic ketamine, which can provide rapid-onset (albeit short-lived) relief for some patients with treatment-resistant depression...
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Everything's Unscented
If you were forced to sacrifice one of your five senses, which would it be? Most people wouldn't consider losing their vision or hearing. It would be really dangerous to completely lose your sense of...
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Neurological Art History
“Wound man” woodcut by Johannes de Ketham, originally appearing in Fasciculus medicinae (1491). This image is from Fasiculo de medicina (1494), a translation into Italian by Sebastiano Manilio.We...
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Now we know the brain is "neuroplastic"... in the 19th century
Until recently, scientists believed our brains were fixed, their circuits formed and finalised in childhood, or "hardwired". Now we know the brain is "neuroplastic", and not only can it change, but...
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Preschool Programs Informed by Basic Research in Neuroplasticity... in 1966
David P. Weikart“Krech (1960), Rosenzweig (1964), Bennett (1964), and others have successfully identified and measured physiological changes in the brain that relate directly to early experiences in...
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Existential Neuroscience: a field in search of meaning
What separates prior from subsequent is exactly nothing. This nothing is absolutely impassable, just because it is nothing...–Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (p. 28).If you read the journal...
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