Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Brain areas associated with pleasure and anxiety are activated when assessing risk.
Early research suggests that emotion can increase the risk of an attack in people with asthma.
The first book on vetinary psychiatry is published.
‘Safety Smock‘ – especially designed clothes for preventing suicide (nicked from BoingBoing).
More on Edinburgh University’s Koestler Parapsychology Unit, this time from The Guardian.
Computer scientists devise algorithm to ‘learn’ languages unaided.
Circadiana discusses the interaction between sleep cycles and Bipolar disorder.