Here are a few readings: neuroimaging and dyslexics “Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used sophisticated brain imaging to predict with 90 percent accuracy which teenagers with dyslexia would improve their reading skills over time.” men and women shop differently “The last-minute holiday dash is on: Men Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: genetics of brain diseases “Scientists have isolated a set of proteins that accounts for over 130 brain diseases, including diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsies and forms of autism and learning disability. The team showed that the protein machinery has changed Read more…
Here are a few items for today: beauty sleep?? “To investigate whether sleep deprived people are perceived as less healthy, less attractive, and more tired than after a normal night’s sleep.” during a fight, how do you perceive your partner’s emotion “Some of the most intense emotions people feel occur Read more…
Here are a few readings for today: Are brains are configured so we can hear ourselves speak “Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we’re listening to. But when it comes to following our own speech, Read more…
Here are my readings for today!: an interview with Suzanne Corkin “SUZANNE Corkin is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked with the famous amnesic patient H.M. for more than 45 years. I interviewed her at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience Read more…