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Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience | Mad In America
Philosopher Ray Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychobabble | Mad In America http://t.co/YnJKO1nC...See it on Scoop.it, via Neuroscience in The News
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The Psychology of Cults - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian...
Podcast from RadioNational Australia. If you sign up to a weekend personal development workshop, you don’t really expect to emerge 10 years later a shadow of your former emotional self. What sets many...
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How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus | Psychology Today
By Jim Taylor, Ph. D. "There is...a growing body of research that technology can be both beneficial and harmful to different ways in which children think. Moreover, this influence isn’t just...
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Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves | Video on TED.com
Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration)....
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Daniel C. Dennett on an attempt to understand the mind; autonomic neurons,...
Daniel C. Dennett on an attempt to understand the mind; autonomic neurons, culture and computational architecture “ “What Darwin and Turing had both discovered, in their different ways, was the...See...
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How poverty influences a child's brain development
Science is figuring out exactly how the damage is done and what steps can be taken to halt and then heal itSee it on Scoop.it, via Neuroscience in The News
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Neural networks in psychiatry
[Abstract] Over the past three decades numerous imaging studies have revealed structural and functional brain abnormalities in patients with neuropsychiatric diseases. These structural and functional...
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Major step toward an Alzheimer's vaccine
A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has discovered a way to stimulate the brain's natural defense mechanisms in people with...
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Big Neuroscience: Billions and Billions (Maybe) to Unravel Mysteries of the...
The era of Big Neuroscience has arrived. In late January, The Human Brain Project—an attempt to create a computer simulation of the brain at every scale from the nano nano to the macro biotic—announced...
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The Top 10 Challenges for Brain Science in 2013
2012 was a big year for brain science, and 2013 promises to be even bigger.Rhoda Floyd's insight:Lots of room for Neuroanthropology, here.See it on Scoop.it, via Neuroscience in The News
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We feel, therefore we learn: The neuroscience of social emotion. Daniel...
We feel, therefore we learn: The neuroscience of social emotion. Daniel Siegel The Monthly (subscription) We feel, therefore we learn: The neuroscience of social emotion. Daniel Siegel.See it on...
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See-through brains clarify connections
Technique to make tissue transparent offers three-dimensional view of neural networks.A chemical treatment that turns whole organs transparent offers a big boost to the field of ‘connectomics’ — the...
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NeuroDojo: Neuroscience doesn't need a grand theory to advance
That doesn't sound like a theory of the brain. That sounds like what is desired is a theory of consciousness. This does not surprise me; it's the big hairy audacious goal for many neuroscientists. I...
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Voices may not trigger brain's reward centers in children with autism
In autism, brain regions tailored to respond to voices are poorly connected to reward-processing circuits, according to a new study by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine.The...
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Altruism and Empathy
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Altruism and Empathy Saturday, June 8th, 2013 Is self... Is selflessness a necessary...
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COMING SOON: 'The Role of the Putative Mirror Neuron System in ...
Provisional Abstract: Single-cell recording in macaque monkeys has uncovered mirror neurons, which respond both when a monkey observes a transitive action (an action involving an actor and an object),...
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Finding Middle Ground on Neuroscience | Neuroanthropology
And an attempt to find the middle ground in the neurobollocks debate? http://t.co/jdujmkTOo8Rhoda Floyd's insight:There is a middle ground between the hyperbole and the sceptical dismantling of...
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Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience
A study with low statistical power has a reduced chance of detecting a true effect, but it is less well appreciated that low power also reduces the likelihood that a statistically significant result...
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The Neurological Explanation For Practice Makes Perfect
The Neurological Explanation For Practice Makes PerfectSee it on Scoop.it, via Neuroscience in The News
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The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated
This week, I’m headed to the Future of Storytelling summit, an unusual cross-disciplinary unconference exploring exactly what it says on the tin. Among the presenters is neuroeconomics pioneer Paul...
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Why aren't we more compassionate?
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.See it on Scoop.it, via Neuroscience in The News
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Neurobiology of empathy | On Psychology and Neuroscience
Posts about Neurobiology of empathy written by psychneuro Our ability to express empathy is vital for our emotional and social functioning and well-being. As humans we are evolutionarily social...
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Neuroscience's grand question - Brandeis University
Neuroscience's grand question Brandeis University How this continuous rebuilding takes place without affecting our ability to think, remember, learn or otherwise experience the world is one of...
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(Perspecive taking) Chris Kluwe: How augmented reality will change sports ......
Chris Kluwe wants to look into the future of sports and think about how technology will help not just players and coaches, but fans. Here the former NFL punter envisions a future in which augmented...
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Brain-mapping projects to join forces
US and European research programmes will begin coordinating research. It seems a natural pairing, almost like the hemispheres of a human brain: two controversial and ambitious projects that seek to...
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Biomarkers could predict Alzheimer's before it starts
Study identifies potential blood test for cognitive decline.A simple blood test has the potential to predict whether a healthy person will develop symptoms of dementia within two or three years. If...
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Surgeons Say This Woman Became “Hyper Empathic” After They Removed Part of...
A newly published case report on how a woman might have gained empathic awareness following surgery seems exciting. But, does it add anything beyond mystery and confusion to the scientific literature...
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A social neuroscience perspective could increase empathy in physicians,...
In the October issue of World Psychiatry, neuroscientists and UC Berkeley psychiatrist Jodi Halpern contribute a perspective on the need for increased research on the components of empathy, in order...
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