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The neuroscientist recounts some of the breakthroughs that have come out of his world-renowned lab.
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Some rats are naturally more fearful than others. The neuroscientist’s current research focuses on what these outliers can tell us about the psychopathology of fear in humans.
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Animal studies allow neuroscientists to study the brain at the level of individual neurons, unlike human brain-imaging studies.
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The amygdala is responsible for implicit memories, but these are different from what Freud called the unconscious.
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The neuroscientist gives a short primer on the brain’s emotional processor.
While I was out of town last week I got a lot of reading done. One of the books I picked up was the paperback version of Palace Council by […]
"There's no true power struggle within the Republican Party over 'tea party' candidates." Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg debunks the media narrative du jour.
Subtitled Bollywood films are proving a boon to literacy in India. The Boston Globe reports that communities gather around old TV sets for entertainment and education.
"People's willingness to believe or discount scientists depends mostly on ideology, or what a new study's authors call 'cultural cognition'." The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
"He’s been sly, sad, unwatchably private, two writers and a drag queen, and now he’s directing. Tom Shone traces the career of Philip Seymour Hoffman."
"Are Georgia, Alabama and Florida fighting over water or over growth?" The Economist explains that population growth has put pressure on regional water resources.
"New case studies focus on rare illusory body perceptions that could answer questions about how we maintain a 'self'." Scientific American on how the mind invents the 'I'.
"Food is at the center of health and illness and so doctors must make all aspects of it—growing, buying, cooking, eating—a mainstay of their personal lives and practices."
"Knowledge is fleeting. Knowing how to think and behave is what endures." The Frontal Cortex defends standardized tests as a way to measure intelligence metrics that matter.
"M.I.T. biological engineers have found a way to convert carbon-dioxide emissions to useful building materials, using genetically altered yeast."
"Narcissists, new experiments show, are great at convincing others that their ideas are creative even though they're just average." Science on business and self-love.
When Frank Welsh wrote his outstanding one-volume history of Hong Kong, he titled it “A Borrowed Place.” In I Like Hong Kong… Art and Deterritorialization, Frank Vigneron, an Associate Professor […]
Imagine if a state defined embryos as people, giving full legal protections and rights to a collection of cells the size of the ball on a fine-tipped pen? Sound like […]
Sorry about the lack of posts today – I’ve been trying to get over a nasty headcold and my ability to concentrate on much has been less than great. So, […]