Archive for September, 2011

Researchers find amplification of bias in advice to the unidentified and many

Thursday, September 29th, 2011


Professionals often give advice to many anonymous people. For example, financial analysts give public recommendations to buy, hold or sell stock. New research from George Loewenstein and Sunita Sah demonstrates that advisers confronting a conflict of interest give more biased advice when there are multiple advice recipients as opposed to just one recipient, and the advice is more biased when the adviser does not know the name of the recipient.

Happy New Year

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

L’shonetoyve tikoseyvu by I. L. Peretz. Translated from the Yiddish
by Max Rosenfeld

L’shonetoyve tikoseyvu -
Everyone, wherever you are!
Whether fate has played you ill
And sent you to the steppes afar,
Or whether, cooling fevered brow,
Before the Western Wall you stand.
Whether on the distant seas.
You’re sailing to a promised land.
Or whether, with a patient smile,
You bear the heavy yoke with ease
And buy the very air to live
And pay for every breath you breathe
To everyone, at this new year,
In every tongue in every garb,
L’shonetoyve tikoseyvu -
Everyone, wherever you are!

Arnold Richards Editor
Nathan Szejnberg Managing editor
Staff of internationalpsychoanalysis.net

Engineers use short ultrasound pulses to reach neurons through blood-brain barrier

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011


Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a new technique to reach neurons through the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs safely and noninvasively. Up until now, scientists thought long ultrasound pulses, which can inflict collateral damage, were required. This new study shows that extremely short pulses of ultrasound waves can open the blood-brain barrier -- with the added advantages of safety and uniform molecular delivery -- and the molecule injected systemically could reach and highlight the targeted neurons noninvasively.

Power corrupts, especially when it lacks status

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011


In a new study, researchers at USC, Stanford and the Kellogg School of Management have found that individuals in roles that possess power but lack status have a tendency to engage in activities that demean others.

FPCT’s THREE TALL WOMEN Will Keep You Thinking

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011




Click Here to Read: BWW Reviews: FPCT’s THREE TALL WOMEN Will Keep You Thinking on the Broadway.com website on September 26, 2011.

Sustainable Weight Loss: Minding What Matters

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011






Click here to Read: Sustainable Weight Loss: Minding What Matters by Todd Essig in Forbes Magazing on September 26, 2011.

More than a sign of sleepiness, yawning may cool the brain

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011


A Princeton-led study is the first involving humans to show that yawning frequency varies with the season, a disparity indicating that yawning could serve as a method for regulating brain temperature.

To ditch dessert, feed the brain

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011


Brain imaging scans show that when glucose levels drop, an area of the brain known to regulate emotions and impulses loses the ability to dampen desire for high-calorie food.

Uncertain Jew

Monday, September 26th, 2011



Click Here to Read: Uncertain Jew: An Egyptian exile considers Jewish identity—and his own—in a cosmopolitan world. Excerpted from the new essay collection Alibi By André Aciman on the Tablet website on September 26, 2011.

Lost at sea

Monday, September 26th, 2011




Click Here to Read: Lost at sea: We explore the difficulties of the merchant mariner Rao and examine the emotional stress pirates have added to his job By Stuart Garfinkle on the American Psychological Association Division 39 website.