Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Science reports that forced donations activate brain areas associated with altruism.
The New York Times reports that half of all continuing medical education courses in the United States are now paid for by drug companies and are often little more than marketing exercises.
The Neurophilosopher finds some beautiful antique brain anatomy drawings.
Men react more positively to children with facial appearance resembling themselves, suggesting genetic relatedness, while women’s reactions are more influenced by healthy looks.
Pure Pedantry has some fascinating analysis of some 80,000 year-old ornaments.
More coverage on the long-term neurological effects of concussion in NFL players from The New York Times.
Did Hitler have syphilis? Wild speculation abounds in a recent psychiatry conference presentation.
Research has consistently found that materialism makes you unhappy, but The New York Times reports that it may not make you better off either.
What makes a movement seem artificial? Cognitive Daily looks at how we perceive movements in computer animations.
Self-effacing people are secretly confident, suggest new study on the differences between declared and inner self-esteem.
Backlash over child bipolar disorder: Scathing articles published in the SF Chronicle and Boston Globe.
Mixing Memory published an gripping article on the psychology of metaphors that generated two great follow-ups.
Discover Magazine looks at the new generation of aptitude measurements in psychology that hope to go <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/blinded-by-science
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Mind Hacks 
The critical flaw in the “altruism” study would appear to be that the subjects were *given* money, and then it was taken away. I wonder what areas of their brains would light up if they watched as an intern logged into the subject’s bank account and started “taxing” them…