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XML error: mismatched tag at line 10Mind Hacks: Mar 12 2010 03:54 pm Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: The University of California has an interview with space psychiatrist Nick Kanas There's a thoughtful consideration of the recent New York Times article on whether depression has evolutionary benefits over at Neuron Culture. Time magazine d (More...) About Psychology: Mar 12 2010 03:54 pm Are you working on a psychology research paper this semester? Whether or not this is you're first research paper, the entire process can seem a bit overwhelming at first. Knowing where to start the research process can make things a lot easier and less stressful. I've been getting a lot of question (More...) PsyBlog: Mar 11 2010 09:24 am Alcohol makes us attentionally 'short-sighted'—this helps explain its popularity and its variable effects. No one who has tried alcohol can fail to wonder about its effects on our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. We tend to think of alcohol as primarily a disinhibitor, but this can't really exp (More...) Mind Hacks: Mar 10 2010 04:15 pm Apologies if updates are a little irregular, as I'm currently on my way back to the UK for a three week visit. This is largely because I've been asked to speak to the 'All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education' about the evidence for whether computer games are da (More...) Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life: Mar 10 2010 04:15 pm For me, Spring can never come soon enough.Tags: mindful awareness, seasons (More...) Mind Hacks: Mar 10 2010 02:17 am Cannabis smokers often report that when stoned, their thoughts have a free-wheeling quality and concepts seem connected in unusual and playful ways. A study just published online in Psychiatry Research suggests that this effect may be due to the drug causing 'fast and loose' patterns of spreading ac (More...) Mind Hacks: Mar 10 2010 02:17 am The San Francisco Exploratorium is the Mind Hacks of science museums - every exhibit is hands on, giving you the chance to experiment with and experience for yourself scientific principles. Obviously, one of my favourite exhibits was a psychology demonstration, one based on a classic visual illusio (More...) About Psychology: Mar 10 2010 02:17 am If you really want to get good grades in your psychology courses, then it is absolutely essential to take quality lecture notes. What exactly do I mean by quality? Should you try to write down everything that the professor says during class? Absolutely not. Lecture notes should be organized and shou (More...) Mind Hacks: Mar 09 2010 03:40 pm A brain scanning technology called MEG is being used to track the function of unborn babies' brains as they grow inside the womb until after they've been born. The full name for MEG is magnetoencephalography and it works by reading the magnetic fields created by the electrical signalling in the bra (More...) Mind Hacks: Mar 09 2010 12:39 pm Neuroskeptic covers a fascinating case of a man born with a genetic mutation meaning he had a severe lifelong deficiency of both serotonin and dopamine. The case report concerns a gentleman with sepiapterin reductase deficiency, a genetic condition which prevents the production of the enzyme sepiap (More...) |
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