Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news, with internet radio easter special:
An archive of old advertisements for hypnotism books and training guides.
Researchers argue Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was inspired by the hallucinogenic effects of ergot.
Scientists link gene to dyslexia (again).
A specialist in the psychology of trauma recounts his own experience of being in a near-fatal car crash and his view on the psychological effects of post-trauma stress.
New York Times article on people who have a compelling desire to have a limb amputated.
Recent work in the field of neuroeconomics (the neuropsychology of economic decision making) is challenging traditonal notions of rationality.
People tend to fancy others with differing facial features, but trust those with similar features.
Terri Schiavo case highlights lack of knowledge in certain areas of neurology.
25% of US adults have received mental health care over a two-year period.
Article from Psychology Today on the co-option of psychological terms into everyday language.
Easter radio special
A few things to relax with over the easter holiday… Mind and brain radio programmes from around the world, broadcast over the last week and archived for your listening pleasure:
BBC Radio 4 had a series of five 15-minute programmes on the work of Sigmund Freud.
An edition of Check Up, also on Radio 4, tackles obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD.
And one more from Radio 4… This week’s edition of Material World discusses the neurobiology of body clocks and circadian rhythms.
ABC Radio National edition of All in the Mind discusses the neuroscience of movement and dance (transcript, realaudio).
Another Radio National programme, Ockham’s Razor, takes a critical look at mental illness and society (transcript, realaudio).
Scientists who decoded movement signals from an awake human with brain-implanted electrodes are interviewed on the SETI Radio Network’s science show Are we alone ? (mp3).
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