Neurontic covers breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychology and is designed to give laypeople a window into the inner workings of the human mind. Orli Van Mourik is a freelance journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today Magazine .
February 6, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
I live with a man who can easily dredge up the names of people who testified in the Watergate hearings, because he watched them on TV--when he was four. He can recite dialogue from movies he hasn't seen since the...
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February 5, 2006
Category: Psychology
Introversion is a loaded word. Just look it up in the dictionary and here's what you'll find:Introversion: The state or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life(Mirriam-Webster Online) Doesn't sound so good,...
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February 4, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
I've never read anything that captures the torment of a bad day of writing as well as the following passage from the preface of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem:. . . I sit in a room literally papered with false...
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February 3, 2006
Category: Psychology
Psychology is supposed to be the empathetic science. So, it surprised me to learn that many psychologists believe the entire range of human feeling can be distilled down to a list of ten. On the off chance this list grew...
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Category: Neuroscience
Think neuroscience is boring? Think again, says V.S Ramachandran, director of San Diego State's Center for Brain and Cognition. In the coming years, Ramachandran says, neuroscience promises to revolutionize the way "we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos."...
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February 2, 2006
Category: Just Plain Strange
What would you say if I told you that parasites are infesting the brains of half the human population? Or creepier still, that these little buggers have the power to control people's behavior, making some irascible, others docile, and still...
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