The Divided House of Psychiatry
Category: Brains and minds
The ride continues rough on the psych bus.
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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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Gleaned: Mechanical brides, lying about lying, traumatic growth, and bubba v bubba
Category: Art
At Biophemera, Jessica Palmer takes a look at Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny. Actually a couple look to me a...
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See exactly where Phineas Gage lost his mind
Category: Culture of science
To mark the 150th anniversary of Gage's death (which came 12 years after his accident), the Cavendish Historical Society is taking what sounds like a phenomenal two-hour walking tour that includes the accident site, the home and office of the surgeon who treated him, the boarding house where he was taken, presumably to die, and the carpenter's shop in which was built the coffin he turned out not to need.
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Your genetic info -- not free, easy, or clear
This isn't something we'll figure out in a couple workshops; it's something the industry and the broader genomics community will need to consider carefully over the next few years, even as it rapidly grows.
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Gold in the tweetstream
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
I'll try doing this now and then, maybe regularly, to gather the more notable tweets I get in my twitter...
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Does depression have an upside? It's complicated.
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
Despite all the complexity, it's that simple: Sometimes, for some people, depression ramps up constructive thinking; for other people (or at other times for the same people for whom depression sometimes brings insight), it smothers it. Did Virginia Woolf's bipolar depression bring her insight and creativity? Quite possibly. Yet in the end it drowned her.
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Top 5 Neuron Culture hits from January - plus Neil Young
Category: Brains and minds
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.
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Hits of the week past
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
The week's best -- with new features!
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Why do antidepressants work only for the deeply depressed? A neuroskeptical look
Category: Medicine
Neuroskeptic takes a sharp look at how our expanding definition of depression paralleled our expanding use of antidepressants -- and perhaps led to antidepressant's poor performance in the less severely depressed. T
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Neuron Culture's top five from December
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
The month's goodies included orchids and dandelions; more of those; Shakespeare; toddlers in many permutations; and, naturally, a bit of stress.
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