New edition: Cognition, Brain and Consciousness

Yes, now it’s out as a second edition. The big cognitive neuroscience textbook entitled “Cognition, Brain and Consciousness” is edited by Bernard J. Baars and Nicole Gage, and has already received good reviews, among one prominent and positive review in Nature Neuroscience. (Both my chapters survived the revision process, with minor changes.) I’ve been using [...]

Source: http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/new-edition-cognition-brain-and-consciousness/

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New Genetic Links for Alzheimer?s Disease

A research consortium has identified four new genes that may contribute to late-onset Alzheimer?s disease. Researchers say the findings could mean four different pathways are related to the formation of Alzheimer?s. Identifying the function of the genes may help researchers detect changes in the brain before any symptoms of memory loss or intellectual decline are [...]

Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/04/04/new-genetic-links-for-alzheimers-disease/24974.html

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What to do with your unfunded proposals - place them in a centralized repository?

I would say no. Grant proposals are a precious commodity, especially in this day and age of reduced funding and evaporating money. However, in a recent Nature correspondence, Dr. Noam Harel describes his vision for a centralized grant repository, ideally open to the public, where researchers could place their best ideas, allowing various funding agencies to discover the plans most-suited to their respective agendas. Dr. Harel likens this potential web manifestation to something like eBay, Facebook or Google, but for scientists and funding agencies. A more apt analogy might be Monster.com, with both sides searching for their ideal match, and a long-term relationship (perhaps I am now making it sound more like eHarmony.com...).

When it comes to the integration of scientific communication and technology, I am extremely optimistic, and although I don't reject Dr. Harel's idea entirely, I just don't see it taking off in its presently-proposed form.

Source: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential/~3/dYtZok4EL1I/what_to_do_with_your_unfunded.html

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Insights on the ?Aha? Moment

The sudden understanding or grasp of a concept is often described as an ?Aha? moment — an event that is typically rewarding and pleasurable. Usually, the insights remain in our memory as lasting impressions. Researchers from New York University are using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner to study how the insights are captured and stored [...]

Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/04/01/insights-on-the-aha-moment/24906.html

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Can Smoking Cause Depression?

Researchers have made bold claims about cigarette smoking leading to depression. It has long been known that smokers have higher rates of depression than nonsmokers, but researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand investigated the link further, and say they have found a causal relationship. The team took figures from over 1,000 men [...]

Source: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/can-smoking-cause-depression/

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Social Anxiety in Children Linked to Nonverbal Communication Failures

Emerging research on pediatric social anxiety suggests a source of the problem may be the inability of the child to appropriately perceive facial clues. For example, children suffering from extreme social anxiety may confuse angry faces with sad ones. Emory psychologists Steve Nowicki and Marshall Duke have found that in a range of children with [...]

Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/04/01/social-anxiety-in-children-linked-to-nonverbal-communication-failures/24909.html

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