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Subscribe here for your own daily copy delivered to your inboxTHIERRY ENNUIThe Fiver has always prided itself on its highly-evolved damage limitation skills. The excuse about having just sort of forgotten about the litre of Irish Knights tucked inside its specially-adapted sleeve at the supermarket exit gate. The wheedling (Read More)
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Neurophilosophy:
SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galton in the 1880s, little was known about this condition until recently. A rennaissance in synaesthesia research began about a deca (Read More)
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Department of Neurology scientists at UCLA have confirmed that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, implying that the brain may re-organize itself functionally in order to adapt to a loss in sensory inputs. (Read More)
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Scientific Blogging:
Whether you're a liberal or a libertarian, it's generally accepted across the political spectrum that, in some form, the opportunity to make a lot of money drives the economic recessions and depressions the global economy experiences. Since we seem doomed to repeat the mistakes that brings us to the brink of economic meltdo (Read More)
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene, FoxJ1, that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing neurons. The research is a significant advance in understanding the development of the nervous system, which is essential to addressing conditions such as Parkinson's disease, A (Read More)
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No one draws pictures of heads with little gears or hydraulics inside any more. The modern conceptualization of the brain is firmly computational. The brain may be wet, squooshy, and easy to serve with an ice cream scooper, but it is nevertheless a computer. However, there is a rather blaring difficulty with this view, and (Read More)
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Wired Science:
With each passing year, the boundary between man and machine gets slimmer. Bionic ears have become commonplace, motorized prosthetics allow wounded soldiers to care for themselves, and electronic eyes are just over the horizon. Neuroscientists have almost jacked rodents into the matrix: They have used electrodes to read sig (Read More)
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Mice who had the PKCI/HINT1 gene removed had an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect, say esearchers writing in BMC Neuroscience who applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knockout animals, concluding that the deleted gene may have an important role in mood regulation.Elisabeth Barbier and Jia Be (Read More)
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The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould exposes the shameful history of research into race and IQEarlier this year Glenn Beck, the US Fox News commentator, called President Barack Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture". The subtext of the statement seemed to be that it is justifie (Read More)
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The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould exposes the shameful history of research into race and IQEarlier this year Glenn Beck, the US Fox News commentator, called President Barack Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture". The subtext of the statement seemed to be that it is justifie (Read More)
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Old memories may get the boot from new brain cells.A new rodent study shows that newborn neurons destabilize established connections among existing brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in learning and memory. Clearing old memories from the hippocampus makes way for new learning, researchers from Japa (Read More)
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Neuroscientist Raymond Tallis has a barn-storming and somewhat bad tempered article in The New Humanist where he rails against the increasing tendency to explain everything from beauty to crime in terms of brain function.He begins by criticising how neuroscience is now appearing as a handy 'neuro-' prefix to more and more a (Read More)
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ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News:
Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. (Read More)
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Scientific American - Mind & Brain:
The young girl wanted to unburden herself about her problem. She told her doctor that she worried excessively and that she felt overwhelmed by these thoughts. One memory that she described to Douglas Mennin, director of the Yale Anxiety and Mood Services at Yale University, was particularly telling. Her grandmother had shar (Read More)
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Scientific Blogging:
Enhancing the effects of dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. Published today in Current Biology, the study confirms an important role for dopamine in how human expectations are formed and how people make comple (Read More)
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