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)
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)
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)
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 Ps (Read More)
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)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
The Guardian:
Mass walkout threatened as axed adviser David Nutt accuses Gordon Brown of being first prime minister to go against advice of his scientific panelThe government was at the centre of a furious backlash from leading scientists (Read More)
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from Twitter:
Ready to interview Randy Gallistel, co-author of "Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience". (Read More)
Scientific American:
We all know someone who is not as smart as we are--and someone who is smarter. At the same time, we all know people who are better or worse than we are in a particular area or task, say, remembering facts or performing rapid (Read More)
Scientific American - Mind & Brain:
We all know someone who is not as smart as we are--and someone who is smarter. At the same time, we all know people who are better or worse than we are in a particular area or task, say, remembering facts or performing rapid (Read More)
Scientific American - Mind & Brain:
We’ve all seen the pretty pictures. Colored scans, produced by techniques that measure blood flow or the movement of a tracer chemical, reveal the activity of areas of the brain when we are thinking about something. The revol (Read More)