aids-write.org (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Dr. Ginger Campbell Aug 18th, 2008 Where does our “Feeling of Knowing” come from? Have you ever felt certain that you knew an answer even though you couldn’t think of it right off? Where does that “feeling of knowing” come from? The answer to this [...]
Channel N (Free subscription) | yesterday
title Understand Your Emotions description "We came here to learn about emotions, not play children's games." A 1950 educational psychology film directed at teens of the day. Definitely different than Ekman's basic emotions, and so wrong about the thalamus. Amazingly boring yet comical at the same time, in that special way only time can produce. producer Coronet Instructional Films featuring unidentified...
Serendipities (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
One of the highlights of the ISCH conference so far, for me, was a paper on cognitive theory and cultural history by Evelyn Tribble and John Sutton. In April, I wrote a post on literature and neuroscience, triggered by Raymond Tallis’ objections to the application of popular neuroscience in the study of literature. He considered it a [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Brain scientists have moved a step closer to understanding why some people may be more prone to depression than others. Dr Roland Zahn, a clinical neuroscientist in The University of Manchester's School of Psychological Sciences, and his colleagues have identified how the brain links knowledge about social behaviour with moral sentiments, such as pride and guilt.
Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mindful Hack is my blog which supports The Spiritual Brain , a neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper One 2007) Human evolution: But who decided that the Neanderthals were dumb in the first place? Free will: Can you believe in it as a merely irrational preference? Consciousness: Half an oaf is better than none? Spiritual Brain sells out in Dutch translation Spirituality: If...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | yesterday
Generic drugmaker Upsher-Smith Laboratories is looking to expand beyond its "me-too" business into the R&D field. In a quest to bring four novel drugs to market by 2017, the U.S.-based company has inked a deal with London-based Proximagen Neuroscience. Upsher-Smith gains Proximagen's PRX1 program for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease. When all is said and done, the deal could be worth...
Should Be a Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Click here for wireless version: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/mhoApOlSfhkDwNCibSlOeWnx August 29, 2008 We review these sources for you each day. The Big Idea Science suggests great leaders can mind-meld Social neuroscience research shows that when leaders show empathy, their brain chemistry changes, and that produces chemical change in their followers, too. Their minds, in a sense, fuse. "We believe...
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
More students are taking classes to enhance college applications and boost their SAT scores. For fun this summer, Mario Zubia spent six hours a day, five days a week in a Caltech classroom studying neuroscience and physics. He topped it off with five hours of homework a night. And the 17-year-old Santa Maria resident did it by choice.
Neatorama (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why are flies so hard to swat? Professor Michael Dickinson of Caltech, who spent two decades studying the neurobiology and biomechanics of locomotion in the annoying bugs (for real!) knew the answer: He took high-speed digital video of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) when faced with a swatter, revealing how the creature’s pinpoint sized brain is [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
MEDICATION IS not always the best treatment for anxiety-related illnesses which have become a significant health issue, an international neuroscience conference at NUI Galway (NUIG) has heard.
The University of Chicago Law Schoo (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
This past May, then-Visiting Professor of Law Susan Bandes organized a fascinating conference that brought together scholars working in philosophy, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, sociology, psychology, and political science to consider the intersection of legal institutions and human emotion. For example, legal...
Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
had a health scare. Well, so far as they can tell it wasn't a stroke, and there's no sign of a tumor at this point. So they're getting it set up for a neurologist to go over it, and probably(I'd expect) an MRI. Throw a few good thoughts their way, if you would.
Nature (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Computational neuroscience models can be used to understand the diminished stability and noisy neurodynamical behaviour of prefrontal cortex networks in schizophrenia. These neurodynamical properties can be captured by simulated neural networks with randomly spiking neurons that introduce noise into the system and produce trial-by-trial variation
IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Scientific American has recently run a series on the neuroscience behind illusions, or how reality might not be what it appears to be. No kidding. Albert Einstein as Marilyn Monroe? Who knew? Scientific American:One of the most important tools used...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The inaugural year of The Kavli Prize will be celebrated with a special ceremony that features H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon Magnus presenting the prize to the seven Kavli laureates. Acclaimed scientists in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience will give lectures throughout the week. For more about the Kavli Prize, including a schedule of all lectures and events, click here.
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courtneymilsson | 04/02/2008
That may be overstated, but it is no exaggeration that agencies and advertisers are growing more interested in neuroscience in their never-ending efforts to improve effectiveness. The ardor of the ad business to adopt the technical tools of biometrics —
