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dobbspic I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.

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    Top 5 Neuron Culture hits from January - plus Neil Young

    Posted on: February 1, 2010 5:23 PM, by David Dobbs

    PTSD, pharma, adjuvants, bad movies -- these are a few of my favorite things, and readers' too.

    What's Neil doing here? He wasn't on Neuron Culture; I posted his clip on my catch-all, David Dobbs's Somatic Marker, because I love him. So he comes first. From 1986. Looks as if he's having a particularly good time here.



    Neuron Culture's Top Five from Jan 2010

    NEJM study finds post-event morphine cuts combat PTSD rates in half

    "This is a pretty big deal if it holds up in future trials. One caveat I've not had time to check out is whether the morphine was often applied as part of an more robust medical response in general, which itself might reduce later PTSD symptoms. I hope the DOD soon follows up with another, larger study, for as Ben Carey notes, the has some substantial implications if indeed it holds up."

    Avatar smackdown!

    I talk movie smack down to my buddy Jonah Lehrer. He hasn't spoken to me since. I think he's just busy selling way more books than I am.

    The Weird History of Vaccine Adjuvants

    This originally ran in October 2009 and topped the charts then. It got a boost this month when the editors of the sciblog anthology OpenLab 2009 selected it as one of the 50 winning entries.
    Danny Carlat on the big new antidepressants-don't-work study
    Shortest post ever to make the top hits list. Carlat offers some caveats on the big JAMA study. I tossed up an excerpt and a link hoping I'd find time to lodge my own take soon. Still waiting for that time -- though I did make a little time to comment on the next take on that study, which was

    Why do antidepressants work only for the deeply depressed? A neuroskeptical look.

    In which Neuroskeptic carves a delicious historical arc.
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    Since the dawn of civilization the good thinking and all that is good are culture. It is complete picture of life. It represents what we do in our daily life. Language ,music,ideas about what is bad and good,ways of working and playing, and the tools and other objects made and used by people in the society-all these are part of a society’s culture.
    Cultures vary from society to society or country to country.

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