Here is what I am reading today: response to gaze “It’s sort of conventional folk wisdom, if someone in a crowd starts staring at something, soon someone else will too. Eventually the whole crowd will start staring, even if they don’t know what they are supposed to be looking at. Read more…
What I am reading today: light, brain and reward “Exactly why this happens is unclear. But new research led by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine may have literally shined a light on the answer, one that could lead to the discovery of Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: computer programs to diagnose disorders? “Computer programs can be taught to differentiate between the brain scans of healthy adolescents and those most at risk of developing psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety and depression, according to research published yesterday in the open access journal Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: brain imagine the hallucinating brain “Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work. The findings of two studies being published in Read more…
Here are some of the things I am reading today: candid interview with Mark Zuckerberg “Exclusive Interview with Facebook Leadership: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO/Co-Founder & Sheryl Sandberg, COO” autism and the prefrontal cortex “The scientists discovered a 67 percent excess of cortical cells – a type of brain cell only made Read more…