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Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The 'men agree on female attractiveness, women don't on male attractiveness' story has been a little exaggerated. There was consensus in both groups, just more in men than women. The British Journal of Psychiatry has started putting fantastic art on its covers with a bri (Read More)
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A 64 year old woman developed a phantom third arm after a stroke, but unusually, the patient was able to see and feel the illusory limb. A study just published online in the journal Annals of Neurology used brain scans to examine the patient. They established that the phantom sensations were accompanied by similar sorts of (Read More)
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A growth hormone frequently prescribed for cancer patients has been found to significantly reduce memory loss from Alzheimers disease. The drug, which stimulates the production of red blood cells, essentially washes plaques out of the brain.
Plaques are protein buildups (pictured) found in the brains of people suffering fr (Read More)
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: This is seriously great news. It means we can have stem cell treatments that don't involve injecting new stem cells into the body - you can just stimulate production in your already-existing stem cells. It also means that we may have figured out a way to help people grow new neurons - a golden ring of neuroscience - with an already-existing drug. Can't wait to see how the next round of tests come out in human subjects.
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The Neuro Times is a fantastic new blog about the history of neurology written by a historian with a passion for the development of brain science.The author is Stephen T Casper, whose own work has focused on how the US-UK collaborations and rivalries during the 20th century shaped our understanding of the brain.Although the (Read More)
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Neuroanthropology:
So the favs first, then a great round-up of recent evolution stuff. Then onto anthropology, neuroscience and health.TopDavid Dobbs, What If You Could Predict PTSD in Combat Troops? Oh, Who Cares…You actually can. And it has to do with general health – the bottom 15% account for 58% of PTSD cases. But will anything be don (Read More)
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A new neuropsychological memory test is helping to uncover how Parkinson's disease can alter people's ability to learn about the consequences of the choices they make. The test was developed by Dr. Mark Gluck, professor of neuroscience at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, Newark, wo (Read More)
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Scientific Blogging:
The front portion of the brain that handles tasks like decision-making, the left inferior frontal sulcus, also helps decipher different phonetic sounds, according to new Brown University research. Â This section of the brain treats different pronunciations of the same speech sound (such as a 'd' sound) the same way, they say (Read More)
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Scientific American:
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Numerous studies have shown that lack of sleep hurts--it can lead to weight gain, diseases, and of course weakened cognitive functioning. But a bad night’s sleep doesn’t hurt everyone equally. Unlike me, some people can think clearly no matter what. A study published Ju (Read More)
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Neurophilosophy:
THE TERM 'HYPNOSIS' was coined by the Scottish physician James Braid in his 1853 book Neurypnology. Braid defined hypnosis as "a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye". Braid argued that hypnosis was a form of "nervous sleep", and tried to distingu (Read More)
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In an article published in the June 25th edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, have found that synaptic plasticity, long implicated as a device for ‘change’ in the brain, may also be essential for stability. Homeostasis, the body’s own mechanism of regulating and (Read More)
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neuro images is a regularly updated website of beautiful neuroscience images run by Neurophilosophy blogger Mo Costandi.It's a Tumblr blog, so is a pretty no frills affair, but it's the perfect platform just to let the pictures shine.There are already some stunning images on there, from ancient illustrations to cutting edge (Read More)
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New imaging research in the June 24 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience helps explain why sleep deprivation affects some people more than others. After staying awake all night, those who are genetically vulnerable to sleep loss showed reduced brain activity, while those who are genetically resilient showed expanded brain a (Read More)
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Parts of the right hemisphere of the brains of people with dyslexia have been shown to differ from those of normal readers. Researchers writing in the open-access journal BMC Neuroscience used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the two groups, and were able to associate the neurological differences found with different l (Read More)
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I've discovered there is a small scientific literature on the cognitive science of belly dancing. Yes, I know I should be doing something else with my time, but now it's too late now and it's too good not to share.A group of movement researchers studied which fundamental action abilities were the best predictors of belly da (Read More)
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It has all the makings of a classic B movie scene. A gunman puts a pistol to the victim’s forehead, and the screen fades to black before a loud bang is heard. A forensic specialist who traces the bullet’s trajectory would see it traversing the brain’s prefrontal cortex--a central site for processing decisions. The few survi (Read More)
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