Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
RedNova reviews Plotkin’s book Evolutionary Thought in Psychology.
There’s been a recent flurry of reinterest in the effect of the cat parasite toxoplasma gondii on human personality – see also PDF of related SciAm article.
Cornell lawyers discuss the legality of using brain scans in suspect interrogation (via BoingBoing).
Kid’s asthma may be linked to mothers’ depression.
Buddhist monks can control perceptual rivalry suggesting they have exceptional control over certain mind and brain processes.
Deep brain stimulation (a brain ‘pacemaker’) is being trialled to help untreatable depression (via PsyBlog).
Discussions and deliberations continue about the classification of mental disorders.
Radio programme The Connection discusses the ethics of creating consciousness – including Marvin Minsky discussing IBM’s new Blue Brain Project.
Mind Hacks 