Good science is never defensive. No matter how strongly we believe something to be fact, we should always welcome challenges. Reports of scientists seeking to squash any alternate views, no matter how bizarre, sadden me. Debate gives us the opportunity to explain, educate, and possibly think about science in new Read more…
My dissertation advisor was fond of repeating a quote attributed to Albert Einstein–“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” One might assume that physics is harder to explain than psychology, but that is not always the case. In spite of over 30 years in Read more…
Our family loves technology. We even had a Jaguar gaming system, and not too many people even know what that is. So of course we needed iPads…Kristin and Karen received theirs today, too, and we’re getting some good advice from them on apps. The first thing I downloaded was the Read more…
Researchers at UCSD are in the process of dissecting famous Patient H.M.’s brain on the first anniversary of his death. H.M., of course, is the anterograde amnesia patient all of us rely on so much in our discussions of the hippocampus. Many thanks to Joe Schroeder of FUN (Faculty for Read more…
Just finished grading this quarter’s Neuro ID exam for my 90 + Biopsych students, and I’m delighted with how well they did! This is not everybody’s favorite activity–it’s rote memorization–but it makes no more sense for students to talk about neuroscience without knowing where the cingulate cortex is than to Read more…