Archive for July, 2011

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Researchers explore the source of empathy in the brain

Saturday, July 30th, 2011


According to a new study from USC, even failing to possess a full complement of limbs will not stop your brain from understanding what it is like for someone else to experience pain in one of them. It may, however, change the way your brain does so.

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Epigenetic ‘Memory’ Key to Nature Versus Nurture

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Click Here to Read: Epigenetic ‘Memory’ Key to Nature Versus Nurture on the Science News Daily website on July 25, 2011.

Researchers used the example of how plants “remember” the length of the cold winter period in order to exquisitely time flowering so that pollination, development, seed dispersal and germination can all happen at the appropriate time

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Useless Studies, Real Harm

Friday, July 29th, 2011




Click Here to Read: Useless Studies, Real Harm By Carl Elliot in the New York Times on  July 28, 2011.

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No room for inaccuracy in the brain

Friday, July 29th, 2011


Dr. Ed Ruthazer is a mapmaker but, his landscape is the developing brain --- specifically the neuronal circuitry, which is the network of connections between nerve cells.

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Myelin influences how brain cells send signals

Friday, July 29th, 2011


The development of a new cell-culture system that mimics how specific nerve cell fibers in the brain become coated with protective myelin opens up new avenues of research about multiple sclerosis. Initial findings suggest that myelin regulates a key protein involved in sending long-distance signals. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by damage to the myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers. The cause remains unknown, and it is a chronic illness affecting the central nervous system that has no cure.

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Your brain on androids

Friday, July 29th, 2011


International team lead by UC San Diego cognitive scientist takes a peek inside the brains of people viewing videos of a humanoid robot. The functional MRI study suggests that what may be going on in the "uncanny valley" phenomenon is due to a perceptual mismatch between appearance and motion.

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Lucian Freud told daughter on deathbed ‘I want you to know I’m very selfish’ in extraordinary reconciliation

Thursday, July 28th, 2011









Click Here to Read:  Lucian Freud told daughter on deathbed ‘I want you to know I’m very selfish’ in extraordinary reconciliation By Alexis Parr on the July 24, 2011.

Lucy Freud

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Trauma and Medical Illness By Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Click Here to Read: Trauma and Medical Illness By Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D. on the Psych Central Website.

Click Here to Read: Trauma and Medical Illness: Part II By Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D.  on the Psych Central Website.

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How the brain assigns objects to categories

Thursday, July 28th, 2011






Click  Here to Read: How the brain assigns objects to categories: New findings may explain why children with autism tend to fixate on details instead of seeing the big picture by Anne Trafton on the MIT Press website on July 27, 2011.

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Freud Museum London celebrates 25th anniversary

Thursday, July 28th, 2011


Click Here to Read:Freud Museum London celebrates 25th anniversary By Julie Mollins on the Reuters website on July 27, 2011.

The interior of the Freud Museum London is seen in a handout

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