Interesting reading for today:
The Neurocritic has a very good article on cognitive effects of socio-economic status. There are three important points: 1) the effects are not genetic, 2) there are a variety of different cognitive consequences, and 3) the reality is more complicated than previously suggested. Amen to that.
Mind Hacks links to synaptic fashion -- scarves and bowties illustrating synaptic contacts. I want one.
The Neurophilosopher discusses why starving song birds don't sing as well. He also has a good piece on multipotent neural progenitors.
More like this
Welcome to the 5th edition of The Synapse, ScienceBlog's home-grown carnival on all things Neuro! Glad to see this carnival, much like a precocious child or bad hair day, is growing up and gaining a life of its own. Thanks to all that submitted, we've got a smorgasbord of neural delights for your…
Welcome, everyone, to the 14th installment of the brain blogging carnival Encephalon. If you're in the United States, I hope you've got today off, and that you've at least taken a moment to think about the contribution that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. made to our society. If you're not in the…
Welcome to the 4th edition of The Synapse, a blog carnival for all things mind and brain held every two weeks. A little shorter than normal this round, due to the fact that there's a grant deadline tomorrow and a lot of regulars are busy busy little monkeys, self included.
The neurophilosopher…
An FT article:
Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain, the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston yesterday heard.
Neuroscientists said many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which…