Vaughan Bell: the trouble with brain scans

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Neuroscientists have long been banging their heads on their desks over exaggerated reports of brain scanning studies. Media stories illustrated with coloured scans, supposedly showing how the brain works, are now a standard part of the sc ...
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Hugs and warmth: Can they improve the social brain?

Source: BabyCenter - MomFormation

Can affectionate, responsive parenting improve your child’s social brain – the part of the brain that processes information about people? That’s the question raised by new research on autistic children at the Yale Child Study Center. Accordi ...
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Feeling strong emotions makes peoples' brains 'tick together'

Source: EurekAlert

IMAGE: Emotions synchronize brain activity in the networks supporting vision, attention and emotional processing. Experiencing strong emotions synchronises brain activity across individuals, research team at Aalto University an ...
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Dopamine and performance in a reinforcement learning task: evidence from Parkinson's disease

Source: Brain, a Journal of Neurology

The role dopamine plays in decision-making has important theoretical, empirical and clinical implications. Here, we examined its precise contribution by exploiting the lesion deficit model afforded by Parkinson’s disease. We studied patients in a tw ...
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I Want What You Want

Source: Psychology Today

We human beings seem to really take after things when someone else likes them too. In a schoolyard, a playground, or in your own living room, kids will often chase after the same toy. This is despite many other (seemingly equally attrac ...
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Vigorous Exercise Might Keep Psoriasis at Bay

Source: Iran Daily

Women who exercise vigorously may be reducing their risk of psoriasis, Harvard University researchers report. Psoriasis is an immune disorder that causes inflammation and scaly patches on the skin, HealthDay said. Vigorous ...
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The Neuroscience of Religious Experiences: Andrew Newberg LIVE on Big Think

Source: Big Think

Megan: Welcome to Big Think Live. Our guest today is Andrew Newberg, a pioneer inthe neuro-scientific study of religious and spiritual experiences, also known as neuro-theology and author of the books "Principles of Neuro-theol ...
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What Makes Women Obese or Anorexic

Source: Softpedia

In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology, experts at the University of Colorado in Denver reveal that certain changes in a series of neural pathways can mean the difference between obesity an ...
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Spider phobia cured with 2-hour therapy

Source: FOX News

Getting up close and personal with a furry tarantula is probably the very last thing someone with a spider phobia would opt for, but the encounter may be the ticket to busting the brain's resistance to arachnids. A tried-and-true exposure therapy, thi ...
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