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An exploration of the serious/fun/ridiculous - past/present/future of the brain and the science that loves it.
The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Humor
Here's a wonderful spoof of .. well... I'm not really sure what. Perhaps an old Documentary focusing on the diseases of the mind? In any case it's terribly entertaining....
Posted by The Omnibrain at 8:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Just a short note via Sports Illustrated: Georgia football legend Herschel Walker is expected to reveal in an upcoming book that he has multiple personalities -- a revelation that surprises the man who coached the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner. ... "Breaking Free" will chronicle Walker's life with multiple personality disorder,...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 3:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
Don't play any of the embedded videos if you've ever had a seizure. Now that we're done with the warning... We've all heard of the Pokemon incident in Japan where nearly 700 school aged children were admitted to the hospital with "convulsions, vomiting, irritated eyes and other symptoms" common to...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 1:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Parapsychology
The mind is a complicated and a still very much unknown entity. The earliest conceptions of the mind didn't even have it placed in the brain, instead it was very much separate from the body. This is of course all very silly, the only possibility is that the mind wholly...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 6:29 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
Brain Candy, a film by Toronto's sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, is a satirical take on drug development. A scientist creates an antidepressant (Gleemonex) that evokes the happiest memory of the consumer, recreating that joy in the present. Gleemonex becomes a big success, until it all goes horribly...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mental Health
I always joke around that I would make the worst therapist since my 'therapy' would consist of something like this: Surprisingly (well maybe not that surprisingly since the internet appeared) this method seems to be practiced somewhere seriously. The Kadir-Buxton Method involves: making a fist of both hands, and striking...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:55 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
December 13 is my birthday! Yippee, you say, how old am I? Old enough to not say... I will shamelessly mention the Amazon wish list linked from my contact page, and remind you that Omni Brain has a tip jar in the sidebar (shared with Steve). But I'm not...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
I couldn't wait for Multimedia Friday to post this video, it's just too funny. I Am the Very Model of a Psychopharmacologist is set to Gilbert and Sullivan's classic song with animation. Created by Stephen M Stahl, MD, PhD, of the Neurosciences Education Institute, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
An effective new treatment for anxiety and depression: large sums of cash.
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
The Onion News Network brings us In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough? Satire of a talk show with pundits who promote more and better spying on people diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Note: It's "people diagnosed with" (or just "people with") and not "schizophrenics" as people...
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