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The Evil Monkey has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from a southeastern U.S. university. After a postdoctoral nightmare of Inquisitorial proportions, he is currently working in a laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at a nearby state university.

Scicurious is a graduate student wrestling with a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology at a southern institution. She is a nerd, a geek, and also a dork. And yes, that really is her brain.

NotoriousLTP is an MD-PhD student in New York City. After finishing (hopefully soon) his PhD in behavioral neuroscience, he will re-enter the fun vortex that is medical education.

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Where do you think when you think of yourself?

Category: Cognition

No, not where ARE you when you think of yourself. Where does it happen? What part of the brain? This question has become very important to the world of cognitive neuroscience recently. We used to think of self-reflection as taking...

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Posted by Scicurious at 1:33 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Basics of Menopause and Hormone Therapy III: Cognitive Consequences

Category: Menopause

Postmenopausal women frequently complain about problems with attention and concentration, and increased forgetfulness. Controlled studies of the cognitive effects of menopause and HRT, however, have been controversial.

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Posted by Evil Monkey at 1:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Face Blindness and a single gene flaw

Unfortunately I'm stuck with the press release on this one, my government-access VPN doesn't seem good enough to get me this article at home. Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is a condition where a person is unable to recognize another person...

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Posted by Evil Monkey at 8:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

How Exactly Do Infant Brains Wire Themselves For Speech, Anyway?

We seem to have a plethora of posts pertaining to Pure Pedantry's penchant for peroratory punditry. I found a recent press release that I fear will only encourage him....

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