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July 31, 2007
Category: Animal Behaviour
Females have a natural preference for mating with dominant males, because this confers a genetic advantage upon the offspring produced. When selecting a mate, animals rely on chemical cues called pheromones, which relay information about the social status and...
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Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #28 is now online at the Bohemian Scientist's blog. The next edition will be hosted at Memoirs of a Postgrad on August 13th. If you'd like to contribute, send permalinks to your neuroscience or psychology blog posts to...
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July 30, 2007
Category: Medicine & Health
By Nucleus Medical Art, Inc. There are others on YouTube....
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July 29, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
Black peoples' brains are, of course, no more or less peculiar than those of any other people. The human brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, and there are just as many differences between the brains of people from the same...
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Category: Miscellaneous
We had the pleasure of entertaining the delightful Jessica Palmer at our place last night. And earlier today, Jessica and I ate pizza on the King's Road before visiting the Chelsea Physic Garden. Jessica writes the fantastic Bioephemera blog...
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Category: Music
This week's New Yorker contains an article by Oliver Sacks about a condition called musicophilia, in which one feels sudden urges to listen to, or play, music follwing brain injury: In 1994, when Tony Cicoria was forty-two, and a...
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Category: Medicine & Health
This artificial big toe, which was found on the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy, has been dated to 1069- 664 BCE, and is on display at the Cairo Museum in Egypt. Researchers from Manchester University's KNH Centre for...
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July 28, 2007
Category: Psychology
The single most famous case study in the history of neuropsychology is that of an anonymous memory-impaired man usually referred to only by the initials H.M. This patient has one of the most severe cases of amnesia ever observed; he...
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Category: Medicine & Health
Earlier this week, I posted an email I received about a nutritional supplement called EM Power Plus. The makers of this product, a Canadian company called TrueHope, claim that it can alleviate the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the...
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Category: Neuroscience
My recent post on prefrontal lobotomy has been the most popular thing on this blog so far, and the comments on it are worth reading. While searching for more information about lobotomies and the neuroleptic drugs that replaced them,...
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