Brain & Behavior
February 9, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just...
February 8, 2010
bioephemera
Cocoa Madness: aberrant chocolate-seeking mice run rampant! Well, not quite. I got an intriguing abstract in my inbox earlier today, to this new paper from BMC Neuroscience: Here using a new conditioned suppression paradigm, we investigated whether the ability of a foot-shockpaired conditioned stimulus to suppress chocolate-seeking...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Clean smells promote generosity and fair play; dark rooms and sunglasses promote deceit and selfishness The English language is full of metaphors linking moral purity to both physical cleanliness and brightness. We speak of "clean consciences", "pure thoughts" and "dirty thieves". We're suspicious of "shady behaviour" and we use light and darkness to symbolise good...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
February 5, 2010
Greg Laden's Blog
Why the bad guys are always bad shots.... .... because they always shoot first! And it turns out that reaction is faster than action, so the Marshall can shoot the Varmint Bad Guy, and the Sar Wars Storm Troopers didn't have a chance. [Niels] Bohr was seemingly unhappy with the Tinseltown explanation that...
The Frontal Cortex
Borges Was A Neuroscientist The neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has written a lovely appreciation of Jorge Luis Borges in the latest Nature (not online). Quiroga focuses on Borges interest in neuroscience, which led him to write his classic short story Funes the Memorious, about...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
February 4, 2010
Neurophilosophy
The cutaneous rabbit illusion hops out of the body IF a rapid series of taps are applied first to your wrist and then to your elbow, you will experience a perceptual illusion, in which phantom sensations are felt along the skin connecting the two points that were actually touched....
February 3, 2010
The Frontal Cortex
Prozac Sharon Begley has an excellent Newsweek cover story on the rise and fall of anti-depressant medications, or how a class of drugs that were once hailed as medical miracles are now seen as barely better than placebos: In just over...
The Frontal Cortex
The Blue Brain Via Vaughan at MindHacks, comes this link to a preview of a documentary-in-progress on The Blue Brain, that epic attempt to create a conscious supercomputer. I was fortunate enough to profile the Blue Brain in 2008: In the basement of...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
TONIGHT in NYC: SciCafe at AMNH Tonight's SciCafe Topic is just in time for VD! Valentine's Day 101: Why Humans Have Sex. SciCafe brings together inquisitive minds for an informal evening emceed by experts on cutting-edge science topics. Come with friends or meet new people, talk science, and more -- it's a happy hour Mr. Wizard would be proud of.
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 24 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
A Few Things Ill Considered
Ducking like a quack ONCE TWO SCIENTISTS--it hardly matters what sort--were walking before dinner beside a pleasant pond with their friend, a reporter for the Dispatch, when they happened to notice a bird standing beside the water. "I am a skeptic," said the first...
February 2, 2010
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Why does the gunslinger who draws first always get shot? People have a "reactive advantage", where they execute a movement about 10% more quickly if they're reacting to an opponent rather than just initiating it themselves.
The Frontal Cortex
Sex Ed Ross Douthat reflects on the recent news that teenage birthrates inched upward during the Bush era, after more than a decade of decline: The new numbers, declared the president of Planned Parenthood, make it "crystal clear that abstinence-only sex education...
bioephemera
Playing with your brain Dutch designer Rhonald Blommestijn's playful illustrations
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Just checking in on a few of the new PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various...
Gene Expression
Why We Cooperate PLoS Biology reviews Why We Cooperate: What makes us human, what sets us apart from other animal species, and which traits do we share with our closest living relatives? Ever since Darwin introduced the notion of continuity in his theory...
February 1, 2010
Neuron Culture
Top 5 Neuron Culture hits from January - plus Neil Young PTSD, pharma, adjuvants, bad movies -- these are a few of my favorite things, and readers' too. How'd Neil get in here? I love him.
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
January 29, 2010
Neuron Culture
Hits of the week past The week's best -- with new features!
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Friday morning, let's see what is new in various PLoS titles. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various...
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Getting carpal tunnel could be more fun than you think So after that whole myth about sex in space got thrown around and it turned out to be bunk (well, ok, I'm calling it bunk until I see the report my ownself, and I was SO happy to be able...
January 28, 2010
Neurotopia
Sex...in....spaaaaaaaaaace Happy Thursday Weird Science. :) Apparently NASA astronauts have undergone secret testing (very secret, I can't get the report, too bad, too) for the examination of sex in space! This could be important for the survival of people in 0G...
January 27, 2010
The Frontal Cortex
Self-Control and Peer Groups For the most part, self-control is seen as an individual trait, a measure of personal discipline. If you lack self-control, then it's your own fault, a character flaw built into the brain. However, according to a new study by Michelle...
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