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The Humanities Are Ruining Neuroscience
Photo illustration by Andrea Levy for The Chronicle ReviewInflammatory title, isn't it. Puzzled by how it could possibly happen? Then read on!A few days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published...
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Hipster Neuroscience
According to Urban Dictionary,Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art...
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Go to Bed Early and Cure Your Negative Ruminations!
Source: Alyssa L. Miller, Flickr.For nearly 9 years, this blog has been harping on the blight of overblown press releases, with posts like:Irresponsible Press Release Gives False Hope to People With...
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Eliciting Mirth and Laughter via Cortical Stimulation
Ho ho ho!“Laughter consists of both motor and emotional aspects. The emotional component, known as mirth, is usually associated with the motor component, namely, bilateral facial movements.”-Yamao et...
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The Futility of Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury (but hope for the...
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a serious public health problem that affects about 1.5 million people per year in the US, with direct and indirect medical costs of over $50 billion. Rapid intervention...
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The Incredible Growing Brain!
The Incredible Grow Your Own Brain (Barron Bob)Using super absorbent material from disposable diapers, MIT neuroengineers Ed Boyden, Fei Chen, and Paul Tillberg went well beyond the garden variety...
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Interfering With Traumatic Memories of the Boston Marathon Bombings
The Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 killed three people and injured hundreds of others near the finish line of the iconic footrace. The oldest and most prominent marathon in the world,...
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Is it necessary to use brain imaging to understand teen girls' sexual...
“It is feasible to recruit and retain a cohort of female participants to perform a functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI] task focused on making decisions about sex, on the basis of varying...
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This Blog Is Brought to You by the Number 9 and the Letter K
The Neurocritic (the blog) began 9 years ago today.I've enjoyed the journey immensely and look forward to the years to come, by Nodes of Ranvier (the band — not the myelin sheath gaps).Node of...
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Against Initiatives: "don't be taken in by the boondoggle"
...or should I say braindoggle...I've been reading The Future of the Brain, a collection of Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman. Amidst the chapters...
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One Brain Network for All Mental Illness
What do schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A loss of gray matter in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and...
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Daylight Savings Time and "The Dress"
もう何番煎じかも分からないけど例のドレス問題をまとめてみました。青黒/白金に見える人の色覚やモニタを疑ってる人はぜひご覧ください。 pic.twitter.com/6euNYw9xUa— ぶどう茶 (@budoucha) February 27, 2015Could one's chronotype (degree of "morningness" vs. "eveningness") be...
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Update on the BROADEN Trial of DBS for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Website for the BROADEN™ study, which was terminatedIn these days of irrational exuberance about neural circuit models, it's wise to remember the limitations of current deep brain stimulation (DBS)...
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Follow #CNS2015
Whether or not you're in sunny San Francisco for the start of Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting today, you can follow Nick Wan's list of conference attendees on Twitter: @nickwan/#CNS2015. There's...
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Cognitive Neuroscience 2015: State of the Union
What can we do to solve the mind/body problem once and for all? How do we cure devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and depression? I am steadfast in following the...
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Trends in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience 2015
What are the Hot Topics in cognitive neuroscience? We could ask these people, or we could take a more populist approach by looking at conference abstracts. I consulted the program for the recent...
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FDA says no to marketing FDDNP for CTE
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently admonished TauMark™, a brain diagnostics company, for advertising brain scans that can diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Alzheimer's...
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Tylenol Doesn't Really Blunt Your Emotions
A new study has found that the pain reliever TYLENOL® (acetaminophen) not only dampens negative emotions, it blunts positive emotions too. Or does it?Durso and colleagues (2015) reckoned that if...
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Shooting the Phantom Head (perceptual delusional bicephaly)
I have two headsWhere's the man, he's late--Throwing Muses, Devil's RoofMedical journals are enlivened by case reports of bizarre and unusual syndromes. Although somaticdelusions are relatively common...
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Capgras for Cats and Canaries
Capgras syndrome is the delusion that a familiar person has been replaced by a nearly identical duplicate. The imposter is usually a loved one or a person otherwise close to the patient.Originally...
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