April 2010
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How reliable are recovered memories? →
Interesting study on false memories and their validity.
March 2010
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“As long as our brains remain a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the...”
– Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel laureate)
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Think You Can Multitask? Think Again. →
There is no such thing as multi-tasking, only very rapid shifting in attention focus.
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Stanley Milgram's Behavioral Study of Obedience →
Where does one draw the line between obedience and conformity?
Stanley Milgram, a psychology professor at Yale University, conducted a series of social psychology experiments to find out.
The series of experiments were titled “The Milgram experiments on obedience to authority figures.” The study was designed to measure the willingness of experimental subjects to follow orders from a...
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The Brain's Compensatory Mechanism for Sleepless... →
Studies show that dopamine levels in the brain increase, even after just one sleepless night, suggesting a neural adaptation to sleep deprivation. However, this upregulation of dopamine does not compensate for cognitive deficits following sleep deprivation.
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A Psychologist's View on Personal Genomics →
How much of yourself is determined by your genome? Read on, and draw your own conclusions.
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“Experience is food for the brain.”
– Bill Watterson (Author of Calvin & Hobbes comic strip)
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Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis →
Do the demands of societal life demand an enlargement of brain areas related to higher cognition?
Differences in brain size according to social hierarchy has been studied in bees. Some suggest that participation in social groups is associated with augmented brain development.
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Brainbow →
Brainbow is a process by which individual neurons of the brain are tagged by fluorescent proteins that allow neurons to glow specific colors under a light source.
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The Mind-Body Problem
The mind-body problem is the core for many existentialist questions. As rational, free-thinking, human beings, can we be reduced strictly to brain function? Or is there something more?
Throughout history, thinkers have been classified into distinct groups that vary in how they address the mind-body problem. All groups are interested in determining the relationship between neural events in the...
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Neuroscience
The scientific disciplines concerned with the:
development
structure
function
chemistry
pharmacology
clinical assessments
pathology
of the nervous system.
