Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
A disquieting feeling of strangeness?: Just found this great 2001 paper on the ‘the art of the mentally ill’ on PubMedCentral.
Brain scan can predict response to antidepressants, reports New Scientist.
Neurophilosophy has an excellent article on famous amnesia case HM.
Pesticides ‘up Parkinson’s risk‘ according to BBC News.
Scientific American reports that Scottish scientists uncover a striking link between genes for brain size and tonality in spoken language.
Developing Intelligence investigates the neuroscience of imagination.
Forbes profile a cognitive scientist. Still no word from Hello magazine.
The rate of diagnosed clinical depression among retired American football players is strongly correlated with the number of concussions they sustained, reports The New York Times.
Pure Pedantry looks at research on storing computer information in biological neurons.
Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, reports Scientific American.
Brain Ethics highlight a new book by the widely liked and respected neuroscientist, Chris Frith.
Mind Hacks 