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EVIL.jpg 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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Behavioral Neuro:

The Goal-Directed Nature of Relapse

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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Never go grocery shopping hungry: the fMRI study

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,...

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Making a Long-Term Memory? Don't Forget to Tag it!

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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Does stress trigger your chocolate habit?

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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Cognitive Daily Gets Violent

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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Stand up Straight, Size Counts Around Here

Category: Behavioral Neuro

let's talk about status. Status and height. Because it is, after all, the size that counts.

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Cake or Death? It's all a matter of self-control, and your vmPFC

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?

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Do you feel what I feel? Only if we're two of a kind.

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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Depression Post 4: The Serotonin Theory (and why it's probably wrong)

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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Feeling Risky Today? How's Your Dopamine?

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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