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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Design
I love creative design. Here begins a new theme on Omni Brain. Do you only have a small cabinet and need to fit in as many drinking tools as possible? Do you want to get sticky booze all over your house? This is for you! -via gizmodo-...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Drugs
Mind Hacks has alerted us to some amazing engineering from Harvard University: A team from Harvard Medical School are interested in how smoked marijuana affects the brain, but have come to the inevitable conclusion that it's actually quite hard smoking a joint when you're lying on your back being brain...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
Your brain on drugs spoof from Robot Chicken.
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Category: Vice
Stop smoking pot immediately! You WILL go CRAZY!!! Panic! The study by Zammit and colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet, reanalyzed data from seven long-term studies on psychotic illnesses and marijuana involving 61,000 participants. The researchers filtered out about 60 factors, such as preexisting mental illness and the...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 1:34 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Vice
A study from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Center in Australia has shown that nearly a third of people under the age of 30 think marijuana is totally uncool. Drug abuse is clearly a problem that has to be dealt with through education and treatment programs (don't get me...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 6:46 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture Wars
In the ongoing battle between the DEA, farmers, patients, and scientists there has been nothing but contradictory information. It looks like with a couple new pieces of news that the pro-marijuana (the medical kind) people might be coming out ahead. For researchers studying marijuana, it's been a very good week....
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:34 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Large, comprehensive warnings on cigarette packages are more likely to be noticed and rated as effective by smokers.
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
How do you know a mouse is tripping balls? It's not like you can show them crazy tapestries and play Pink Floyd and ask them how they feel.
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Vice
Check out the brains of mice on drugs. This site is a very strange one to say the least- it starts with a bunch of high mice in a club of sorts just struggling to stand up. Then the interactive flash demo starts in which you have to drag...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 5:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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