OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Research:
"Why do those holiday tunes get stuck in your head so much?" I was invited to pose this question to Dr. Robert Zatorre, Co-Director of the BRAMS: Brain Music and Sound lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Dr. Zatorre is a leading expert in neuroscience research...
Posted on December 24, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
Posted on November 21, 2007 8:15 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We want your opinion! This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world. The authors of the survey (from ScienceBlogs.com) are completing an academic manuscript on the impact of science blogging and this survey...
Posted on September 17, 2007 9:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Becki Rides the Big One is not pr0n, it's a fundraiser for brain tumour research.
Posted on September 17, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mind Hacks recently held its first AAICS (Awkward Acronyms In Cognitive Science) competition, to find the most inventive and unwieldy brain-related acronyms. I submitted a few; there was Project CHOICES (Changing High-Risk AlcOhol Use and Increasing Contraception Effectiveness Study) [link], and ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital...
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Posted on August 22, 2007 8:00 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What makes a great film?
Posted on August 20, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals...
Posted on August 4, 2007 9:09 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
In I-was-going-to-write-about-this-months-ago news, The Scientist magazine profiled The Amygdaloids: Scientists Who Rock Out: With a serious air about him, New York University neuroscientist Joe LeDoux takes hold of a microphone to introduce the first song, about "one of the great enigmas in the history of civilization" -- the mind-body...
Posted on June 22, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Brad of Milligram wrote about a psychiatrist from olden days who claimed he could diagnose patients by their smell alone, and expressed scepticism (wouldn't you?), but there actually is some science behind it. Identification of schizophrenic patients by examination of body odor using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and a cross-selective...
Posted on June 14, 2007 8:00 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Military Development of a Gay Bomb.
Posted on June 11, 2007 6:39 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins 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, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
