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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.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
One of the biggest problems with drug addiction is that it is a disorder that is characterized by relapse. You just CAN'T QUIT. It'd be one thing if you got hooked, got sober, there were some initial bad reactions, and...
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
About a month ago now (yikes, it's been a while!), Sci handed over her diet to the judgment of the goddess. The goddess Isis. Since then, and since finding out that Sci ate roughly 2500 calories a day (or more,...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:50 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
There once was a sad undergrad and her memory, oh it was BAD! But she read this science note and science poetry she wrote and her orgo chem grades now are rad!
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
it also appears that stress brings out other behaviors in humans that may not be as positive as you think.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
This month's issue is on video games, and whether or not violent video games can contribute to violence in children and adolescents. Their conclusion: maaaaaaaybe.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
let's talk about status. Status and height. Because it is, after all, the size that counts.
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
Our brains may want cake, and other parts of our brains want healthy. The two sides need to fight. But which areas of your brain are responsible? And how do they modulate each other?
Posted by Scicurious at 12:20 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Behavioral Neuro
Having more or less intense feelings for someone who looks or acts more or less like you could help explain how we establish things like "in group" and "out group" concepts
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Category: Neuroscience
Ok, the serotonin theory of depression may not be wrong. But it is definitely incomplete. One might ask why we use serotonergic drugs to treat depression if the theory behind it is wrong. A good question, but to this I...
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Category: Behavioral Neuro
It's that time of the semester again. The time when Sci has to present at her Journal Club. I know I've talked about Journal Club a couple of times, but what is the purpose of a Journal Club? For those...
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