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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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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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Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience 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. (Read More)
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Mind Hacks:
If you're attending one of those high class neuroscience events, you probably need a stylish neuron tie to set off your lounge jacket and flannel slacks.I'm assuming, of course, that you get invited to high class neuroscience events. I tend not to get many invitations these days on account of that unfortunate Rocky Horror / (Read More)
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Episode 63 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with David Bainbridge, author of Teenagers: A Natural History. Our focus is on how the brain changes during the teenage years. Bainbridge teaches vetinary anatomy and reproductive biology at Cambridge University and has published several other popular science books in (Read More)
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Scientific American - Mind & Brain:
Why do most customers at my bookstore have trouble understanding my instructions to swipe their debit cards with the magnetic stripe “toward me?” Almost everyone positions their card the wrong way, then asks in confusion, “Stripe toward me?”--meaning themselves. What is causing everyone to make the same mistake? --Micha (Read More)
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The new Brain Science Podcast application is now available in the iTunes Store. You will need an iPhone or an iPod Touch to use the application but it does offer several useful features:Listen to any episode without downloading it via iTunes*Read episode trancripts right on your iPhone or TouchOne click links to the website (Read More)
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Scientific American:
The discovery of mirror neurons in the brains of macaques about ten years ago sent shockwaves through the neuroscience community. Mirror neurons are cells that fire both when a monkey performs a certain task and when it observes another individual performing that same task. With the identification of networks of similarly (Read More)
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If you're sore from a strenuous workout or your thumb is pulsating because you hit it with a hammer, look at a pretty picture or listen to your favorite song. It just might help you cope with whatever unpleasant feeling you're experiencing . That's the conclusion of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Acade (Read More)
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Everybody has memories they'd like to forget forever. Now, thanks to research conducted by scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, there might be a pill for that.According to their study recently published in Science, it may soon be possible to control fear memories with extinction-based drug (Read More)
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Boston University Researchers have shown that intermittent access to fatty and sugary foods induces changes in the brain that are comparable to those observed in drug dependence. The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help explain how abstinence from these foods contributes to re (Read More)
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The Guardian:
John Crace sifts through new research and discoveries from around the world The hole that time forgotFor a long time now the Mexicans have got it in the neck for being home to the crater formed by the object that killed off the dinosaurs. But it seems the real culprit might lie thousands of miles to the east. According to S (Read More)
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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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