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The Decline of Neurocriticism
The Brain From Beyond InfinityIn the last post, I celebrated Eight Years of Neurocriticism but wistfully noted that this blog's popularity peaked in 2012. The traffic last year showed a decline to...
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Hot Topic: The Myth of Cognitive Decline
We all start to forget things, have word finding problems, and generally slow down cognitively once we get older, right? Wrong, says a recent paper by Ramscar et al. (2014), The Myth of Cognitive...
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (after 23 sessions of Emotionally Focused Therapy)
Can neuroscience illuminate the nature of human relationships? Or does it primarily serve as a prop to sell self-help books? The neurorelationship cottage industry touts the importance of brain...
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"Love at first sight is a myth," say Chicago researchers
Social Neuroscience power couple, John T. Cacciopo and Stephanie CacciopoThis, my friends, is a belated Valentine's Day tale that went oh so wrong...On Feb 14, Scientific American ran a piece about...
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Warning about Ketamine in the American Journal of Psychiatry
The dissociative anesthetic and ravey club drug ketamine has been hailed as a possible “miracle” cure for depression. In contrast to the delayed action of standard antidepressants such as SSRIs, the...
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Brains on Film: In the Scanner (featuring Sophie Scott and the Dead Salmon)
Everyone knows the hazards of bringing metal objects into the MRI scanner room (right?). Now we have a lovely musical reminder of why this is such a bad idea...In the Scanner is an entry in the Brains...
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Hippocampal Pathology in California Sea Lions with Domoic Acid-Induced...
In 1987, over 100 Canadians became ill after eating cultivated mussels from Prince Edward Island. Symptoms included the typical gastrointestinal issues, but serious neurological findings such as...
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Contest to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias Shows Empathy and Perspective-Taking...
NCAA college basketball isn't the only hot competition involving a team from the University of Virginia. UVa Psychology Professor Brian Nosek is one of three founders of Project Implicit, a...
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Let's play "Guess the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker"...
Another CNS meeting, another series of delayed blog posts from The Neurocritic. Long in the vanguard of the slow blogging movement, these conference recaps have attained the cult status of unplanned...
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Post-Publication Peer Review, Systemic Changes to Biomedical Research, NIH...
My, that title sure is a mouthful, isn’t it? That's because in the span of a few short days, we’ve seen the following:(1) An invited review in Neuron on the role of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and online...
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The Life and Brain of H.M.
Dr. Suzanne Corkin on H.M.One of the highlights of this year's Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting was Dr. Corkin's keynote address about Henry Molaison the person and his lasting contribution to...
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Answers to the Developmental Cog Neuro Quiz (and potential policy implications)
The "Guess the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker" contest yielded two correct guesses (both Martha Farah for #4) and six incorrect guesses. Basically, the entire exercise was an excuse to...
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Not tonight dear, I had zymosan A injected into my hind paw
We now have definitive proof that the propensity of womankind to postpone sex due to a headache is of evolutionary origin! This annoying habit has been traced back directly to a strain of...
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The Seductive Allure of Spintronics™ Neuroimaging mock mind reading scanner
Spintronics™ Neuroimaging mock scanner used in experiment by Ali, Lifshitz & Raz (2014)A new study has tricked undergraduates into believing that “Spintronics,” a whimsical new “mind reading”...
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The Smouldering Glances of Neuroscience Information
Neuroscience Information May Provide an Illusion of Explanatory DepthIn our continuing twilight saga on the seductive allure of all things neuroscientific comes this new entry by Rhodes et al. (2014)....
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Does Gamma tACS Really Induce Lucid Dreaming?
Dream scene from InceptionDIY brain stimulation geeks were supercharged last week by the finding that dream awareness could be enhanced by transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)1 at...
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Let's Face It: Publishing Weak Data on Face Processing in Pedophiles Is...
Modified from Fig. 2 (Ponseti et al., 2014). Brain areas that selectively respond to faces of the sexually preferred age. Just when we thought it was safe to bury the dead salmon of uncorrected...
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Feeling Mighty Unreal: Derealization in Kleine-Levin Syndrome
I went on this trip once, back to my hometown after a long absence. Have you ever felt that your surroundings seem odd and distant, and that you're completely detached from them? That the things and...
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Humble BRAIN 2025
“We believe this to be a moment in the science of the brain where our knowledge base, our new technical capabilities, and our dedicated and coordinated efforts can generate great leaps forward in just...
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And the DARPA deep brain stimulation awards go to...
...UCSF and MGH!Work on DARPA’s Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program is set to begin with teams led by UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Massachusetts General Hospital...
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