Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
RadioLab has an edition on time, which includes a section with Oliver Sacks talking about patients with altered time perception.
Cannabis likely raises the risk of psychosis. Nothing we didn’t already know and best to read the original paper [pdf] as the story went completely bizarre as soon as it hit the press. Also discussed on The Lancet podcast [mp3].
Scientific American covers a new theory about the role of spontaneous genetic mutation in risk for autism.
A Wired columnist tries online sex therapy and reports back.
Neurophilosopher has a great article on reconstructive memory and cinema.
My ex-gay life: New York Edge has an article by someone who went through modern-day ‘gay conversion therapy’.
PsychMinded reports that a £16 million campaign to combat stigma related to mental illness has been launched in the UK.
What is guilt for? PsyBlog looks at psychological research which might provide the answer.
Blog around The Clock picks out a great selection of recent psychology news stories.
Verbal reassurance can dull the effect of pain, but only if it’s from someone we identify with, reports the BPS Research Digest.
Retrospectacle has an excellent review of the neuroscience of ADHD.
Mind Hacks 