Neuroscience:
"We saw that the group with high level of leisure activities presented 38% less risk of developing Alzheimer's symptoms." Dr. Yaakov Stern, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York. Read this...
Posted on July 24, 2007 6:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just a quick note to let everyone know that Neurontic is pleased to host the next edition of Encephalon, the carnival for brain aficionados everywhere. Please send your entries to neurontic [at] gmail.com no later than the morning of Sunday...
Posted on March 27, 2007 12:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hello fellow brain geeks, The Neurophilosopher has done us all a huge favor and compiled an exhaustive list of all of the neuroscience-related blogs out there. I've spent the morning adding new (and long-delayed) sites to the blogroll and thought...
Posted on March 8, 2007 11:52 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Frontal Cortex has an interesting post about a recent study conducted by psychologists at the University of Toronto on the effects of reading fiction. (Full disclosure here: I haven't read the entire study, which was published in the October...
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Posted on October 27, 2006 10:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While we're on the subject of brain size, I wanted to share another interesting Temple Grandin theory. In Animals in Translation, Grandin suggests that we humans may be suffering from a species superiority complex. While she agrees that domestication...
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Posted on July 30, 2006 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Okay, I know I promised the next entry would be devoted to Temple Grandin's views on language -- a subject well worth exploring -- but I've found myself distracted by some of my other reading this week. (So much to...
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Posted on July 26, 2006 9:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Men's brains weigh about 2.5 pounds. Women's brains are 100 grams less, the equivalent of one teaspoon. To most people, this difference seems negligible--hardly the stuff of controversy. Scientists have yet to determine the reason for the size differential. Neuroscience...
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Posted on May 5, 2006 4:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I know I'm dating myself by referencing an SNL bit circa 1986, but I couldn't resist. Those of you who've read Microscopic Mind Control know that toxoplasma, the bacteria people pick up from house cats, is purported to make women...
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Posted on April 9, 2006 9:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Most people don't know that Sigmund Freud was a frustrated neurologist. Before he abandoned himself to abstraction, the father of psychoanalysis was a practicing physician, intent on developing "a neural model of behavior." (Kandel Interview) But Freud found neuroscience too...
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Posted on April 6, 2006 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Phantom limbs are not a modern phenomenon. There are records of people "haunted" by amputated appendages dating all the way back to the sixteenth century. Consequently, we have more than 500 years worth of theories about what causes phantom limbs--some...
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Posted on April 1, 2006 4:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 .
