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Neuroscience
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, “ (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 obs (Read More)
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Scientific Blogging:
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 recent (Read More)
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Scientific Blogging:
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 (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 t (Read More)
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 (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 (Read More)
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 (Read More)
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 lump (Read More)
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 piec (Read More)
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Nov 04, 2009
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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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 Ps (Read More)
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Nov 03, 2009
Submitted by bensykes
from Twitter:
Well here's an interesting book.. Neuroscience and the Army... one can only wonder. http://ow.ly/yUO8. (Read More)
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Neuro Design User Experience Meets Brain Science
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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 b (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 (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 pu (Read More)
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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 pu (Read More)
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 b (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 (Read More)
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