Here is what I am reading today: what do brain scans tell us about junk food? “Researchers from St. Luke’s — Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University in New York performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 25 men and women of normal weights while they looked at images Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: marriage and happiness “Their study, online in the Journal of Research in Personality, finds that although matrimony does not make people happier than they were when they were single, it appears to protect against normal declines in happiness during adulthood. “Our study suggests Read more…
Here is what I am doing today: adversity and genetics “In a look at how major stressors during childhood can change a person’s biological risk for psychiatric disorders, researchers at Butler Hospital have discovered a genetic alteration at the root of the association. The research, published online in PLoS ONE Read more…
One of my colleagues at another university mentioned to me that she had been going through statisticians at an alarming rate. She quipped that she never thought of ‘spawning’ one! My daughter Kristin (middle) is an instructor at West Point and my favorite statistician and my daughter Karen (on the Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: your eyes and your sense of smell “A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain’s visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell. The finding published in the Journal of Neuroscience by Read more…