Here is what I am reading today: How pain can actually make you feel better “What do you do when you’re stressed out? Talk to friends? Listen to music? Have a drink, or eat some ice cream? Or maybe practice yoga? These things are all pleasant options, and they’re obvious, Read more…
Here are my readings for today: novel treatments for sleep disorders , cancer and diabetes! “Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified for the first time a novel mechanism that regulates circadian rhythm, the master clock that controls the body’s natural 24-hour physiological cycle. Read more…
Just returned from a great trip to Cal State San Bernardino, where I was asked to give a presentation for the Learning Research Institute. My hosts, James and Ali Kaufmann and their charming son Jacob, made sure Roger and I had a terrific time. The audience included Ali’s biopsych students, Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: cannabis compounds makes females more masculine “When newborn female rats are given a substance mimicking cannabis, their brains become more masculine – as does their behaviour. Margaret McCarthy from the University of Maryland in Baltimore and colleagues found that newborn female rats usually Read more…
Tomorrow, I’m off to our sister CSU campus, Cal State San Bernardino, to meet with some of the Psychology faculty and to talk with Ali Kaufman’s Biopsych class. Ali uses my Discovering Biological Psychology textbook for her class, and it’s always terrific to get direct feedback from students. Ali, her Read more…