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Neuroanthropology:
Not your grandad's boot camp!Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, head on over to the Boot Camp website.Kezia Kamentz dropped me an email and shared that last year’s Boot Camp went really well: “great teachers, a small but very dive (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Buy Buddhism, sell Anglicanism? Be careful, because, just as in financial markets, shocks and bubbles can test your faithFaith markets are perhaps like financial markets. After all, religions have become global: opinions and beliefs are traded every day in the world's cosmopolitan cities, much like stocks and shares. Faith (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
A new book prize turns a welcome spotlight on a rich and varied tradition of writing about health and medicineLast night I attended the prize ceremony for the inaugural Wellcome Trust book prize, awarded to "outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine". I was attracted by its sli (Read More)
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Wired Science:
It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience. Either way, the “Brainwave Sofa” is clearly a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture.The couch’s lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, specifically a three-second recording (Read More)
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Mind Hacks:
The Neurocritic has found this wonderful designer sofa made around EEG or 'brain wave' data captured from artist Lucas Maassen, who also created the wonderful piece of furniture.There's more about the construction of the piece on a page on Maassen's website, but it's running a bit slow at the moment, so you may need to be a (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
For estrogen replacement to provide stroke protection, it likely must be given soon after levels drop because of menopause or surgical removal of the ovaries, scientists report in the Journal of Neuroscience. (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a new study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department of Psychology. The study, carried out by research student Eti Ganon-Elazar under the supervision of Dr. I (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual forceThe fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was without doubt the anthropologist best known to non-specialists. This is mainly because he is usually (Read More)
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The Guardian:
I had no idea I had a potentially fatal infection. Now, after my life-saving surgery, I will never take my health for granted againMay 2009: dizzy and confusedIt felt like sea sickness at first, or a hangover, only I hadn't been travelling or drinking. Yesterday I rounded off the bank holiday weekend with a three-mile run i (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate CrisisAl's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warmi (Read More)
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A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers. The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience. (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate CrisisAl's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warmi (Read More)
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Scientific American:
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Mindfield: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Lone Frank , to be released in the U.S. November 10. [More]
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Scientific Blogging:
John Evans, a mathematician friend of mine in Cambridge England, came up with a formula that specifically allows one to estimate the relative complexity of nervous systems in the animal kingdom, from C. elegans to the human brain. It takes into account not just the number of neurons in the brain, but also the number of syna (Read More)
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
• Case of boy with neuromuscular condition goes to high court• Parent to submit footage to demonstrate boy's quality of lifeA father whose son was born with a rare neuromuscular condition will go to the high court tomorrow in an attempt to stop a hospital withdrawing the support that keeps the child alive.Doctors treating t (Read More)
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