Mind Hacks

Technology Review has an article on a prototype MRI scanner that could vastly improve our ability to measure brain function. It uses a lattice of small coils positioned around the head rather than large coils you lie inside. MRI uses very strong magnets that align the spin of the atoms in your body. It then […]

This week’s edition of medical journal The Lancet has a brief case report of a 44-year-old man who was discovered to have a severely distorted brain, due to it being displaced by a build-up of fluid. The man’s MRI scans are shown on the right and you can clearly see that huge sections of the […]

A ¬£10 million donation to the UK Conservative party, the biggest in its history, is being contested in the high court because the late donor was allegedly psychotic, believing that Margaret Thatcher would save the world from a conspiracy of demons and satanic forces. The donor was Branislav Kostic, a Belgrade-born businessman who made millions […]

Jerry Yang, a 29 year-old psychologist and social worker who works for a fostering agency, has won a cool $8.25 million at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Yang put some of his success down to his training in psychology, but do psychologists make better poker players? There’s no direct evidence that they […]