Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
MIT Tech Review has an interesting piece about ‘troll hunters’ – a new wave of internet abuse vigilantes.
ABC All in the Mind has a good edition asking whether mirror neurons have been oversold. Spoiler alert: yes, they have.
The New York Magazine’s Science of Us section has an interesting piece on whether terrorists can be rehabilitated.
The LSE has an excellent interview with Nikolas Rose on the social implications of the Human Brain Project.
A new study covered by Neuroskeptic finds that head motion biases yet another area of neuroimaging – this time voxel-based morphometry.
Science magazine has an interesting piece on how ideas flow between languages.
There are some excellent extended video interviews with psychologist Gary Marcus on the ‘future of the brain’ over at Live Science.
Foreign Policy magazine has an extended article which perfectly captures the ‘global mental health’ approach to extending mental health services. Please note: other approaches are available.
There’s an extended post on the Skype site that explains the AI tech behind their real-time language translator software.
Mind Hacks 
Thanks for Spike Activity – a great resource – but the link to this piece was not functioning and have not been able to find it on Science site itself:
“Science magazine has an interesting piece on how ideas flow between languages.”
Thanks
Mike S
Now fixed! Thank you.