October 2011
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littleorphanammo asked: when you get all sciencey like that last post? it's super extra sexy. Just saying.
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Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science
“Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they’re right?”
Clearly, if your a person and you haven’t watched this TED talk, you must. It’s like snorting an 8 ball of his blog, car jacking a ‘68 Mustang GT 390 Fastback and crashing it into a wall of distorted evidence and contradictory claims … and a...
September 2011
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Watch“Video Shows Researchers Dissecting The Brain Of A Former NFL Player Who Suffered Trauma-Induced Disease”
You may recall that back in February, former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson took his own life, but not before sending a text message to his family asking that his brain be donated to research. He was quite certain that the depression and loss of cognitive ability he was...
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becomingestel asked: You inspire me.
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
– Albert Camus. via dougcoulson
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10:21pm The SCOTUS will not block the execution of...
via Democracy Now!
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Rainbow Medical, the company contracted to provide...
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I'm asking for a favor, Tumblr →
psydoctor8:
In repsonse to aatombomb’s and approachingsignificance’s post about Troy Davis, I propose we DO SOMETHING about it that takes 30 seconds.
We’ve all seen Tumblr do some amazing things ranging from donating thousands of dollars to friends in need, raising tens of thousands for countries who faced disaster to finding a place for friends to live, finding them a job or just giving moral...
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NEUROWIKIS →
I’m pre-gaming for lab work (that I will blab more about later in the week) and came across a couple of important neuroscience reference and data tools to share:
The Cognitive Atlas-
Cognitive neuroscience aims to map mental processes onto brain function, which begs the question of what “mental processes” exist and how they relate to the tasks that are used to manipulate and measure...
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"After A Magnetic Pulse to the Brain, Study... →
Terrible headline from Popular Science on this one. The study they are talking about is titled Effect of prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation on spontaneous truth-telling (a little different, huh?) and used transcranial magnetic stimulation to send a tiny electrical pulse to a specific part of the brain, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex -see below. This area has been found to play a...
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Researchers can translate your thoughts into... →
That’s right, with brain scans. So, the idea here is that when you have a thought about an object, topic, experience an emotion, construct a plan, these are ”ultimately reflected in the pattern of activity across all areas of [the] brain” to the point where Princeton researchers say, they can translate these thoughts into actual text.
Well, not exactly, it’s a proof...
