Should a book chapter be republished as a peer-reviewed article with no...
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View ArticleDARPA allocates $70 million for improving deep brain stimulation technology
In what appears to be an exclusive story, the New York Times has reported that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will spend $70 million over the next 5 years to further develop and...
View ArticleA Tale of Two BRAINS: #BRAINI and DARPA's SUBNETS
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View ArticleMarie Laveau Conjures a Horde of Avenging Zombies
In American Horror Story: Coven, New Orleans Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau casts a spell to avenge the brutal lynching of an African American high school boy in 1961. She's calling up the undead.The zombie...
View ArticleAilurophobia (fear of cats) and the ability to sense their presence
Here's a leftover Halloween treat from American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914).1 Mitchell was an illustrious physician known for discovering complex regional pain syndrome, coining the...
View ArticleNow Is That Gratitude?
Now is that Gratitude,Or is it really love?Some kind of reality That fits just like a glove--Danny Elfman, GratitudePraise and condemnation serve a powerful purpose in our social and internal lives....
View ArticleNew Deep Brain Stimulation System Measures Neurotransmitter Release
Wireless Instantaneous Neurotransmitter Concentration Sensing System (WINCS) Patient Module printed circuit board & sterilizable case. (Fig. 1, Kimble et al. 2009). Last month, the New York Times...
View ArticleConfessions of a Prosocial Psychopath
Many neuroscientists have been howling about the media coverage surrounding a new book written by UC Irvine Professor Emeritus, Dr. James H. Fallon. This is because unbeknownst to himself for 58 years...
View ArticleThe Phases of Shopping Addiction
The blight of Black Friday is upon us. What better time to look at a recent paper on compulsive shopping?Sohn and Choi (2013) adopted a qualitative approach and recruited a small group of Korean...
View Articlemen are map readers and women are intuitive, but bloggers are fast
Connection-wise analysis for males and females (Ingalhalikar et al., 2013).Blink and you've missed it! Is the news cycle over already? I've been too busy real-working under my rock.The hardwired...
View ArticleThe Manifestation of Migraine in Wagner's Ring Cycle
German Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) wasn't the healthiest guy. He suffered from heart disease, skin disorders, acute infections, minor ailments, and most prominently, recurring headaches – the...
View ArticleBRAIN Initiative Funding Opportunites at NIH
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally released detailed descriptions for six separate funding opportunities in support of the BRAIN Initiative. If you're big on cells, circuits, and/or...
View ArticleWhen Waking Up Becomes the Nightmare: Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Pain
Most of us have had frightening nightmares – someone is chasing after us trying to kill us, or the world is coming to an end. Other disturbing dreams are based on real life anxieties– our partner...
View ArticleThe Creativity of Denial
Never Forget Srebrenica, by Scott McIntyre. A Bosnian Muslim man makes his way past the caskets of those killed in the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995.Horrible, unspeakable memories will forever haunt...
View ArticleHow Can We Forget?
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View ArticleNeurocrap Funded by the Masses: NeuroOn and No More Woof
Crowdfunders, get a clue! You're throwing your money away on bogus prototypes for impossible technology! Why give your hard-earned cash to the equivalent of modern-day snake oil salesman instead of...
View ArticleBROADEN Trial of DBS for Treatment-Resistant Depression Halted by the FDA
Webpage for the BROADEN™ study formerly run by St. Jude MedicalIt's become mainstream these days to say that psychiatric disorders are neural circuit disorders. You can even read all about it in the...
View ArticleThe Brain Radio
The Brain Radio is a long-running French radio program:THE BRAIN are Eva & Pascal Lebrain aka Puyo puyo, they run this radioshow from 1999, it deals with freaky electro, cheesy vintage, dry rock,...
View ArticleEight Years of Neurocriticism
A Mad Scientist Party Idea, from Party on Purpose.Eight years ago, I started a blog out of sheer frustration. I decided to call it The Neurocritic. I sent out an anonymous e-mail to some of my friends...
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