Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The Washington Post has an article on the ongoing trial using MDMA (‘Ecstasy’) assisted psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Babies learn how to make social evaluations in the first few years of life, according to a new study reported by BBC News.
The Guardian has an article on combining a high-flying career with ongoing mental illness.
For men the brain activation in the ventral striatum is dependent not only on the size of reward, but also how it compares to other people’s rewards.
Google in your brain? PageRank as a semantic memory model: Developing Intelligence examines an interesting view on memory for facts.
Is the beauty of a sculpture in the brain of the beholder? Stupid headline, interesting study.
A great post from Mixing Memory on a favourite experiment: research on schema (like mental frameworks) for memory.
Is the famous Christian poem ‘Footprints’ a case of cryptomnesia: the unconscious copying of another creative work? Rachel Aviv for the Poetry Foundation investigates.
Cognitive economics comes to the aid of football goalkeepers, via the BPS Research Digest.
The University of Virginia has a great ‘Psychedelic Sixties‘ online exhibit.
Neurophilosophy finds a wonderful image generated from a supercomputer simulation of brain microcircuitry.
The Dana Foundation has an excerpt from Sandra and Matthew Blakesee’s new book ‘The Body Has a Mind of Its Own’ available online.
Are rocks conscious? Arguing no is harder than you think, and the New York Times covers controversy.
Probably one of the most important emerging fields in biology is epigenetics. Corpus Callosum tackles a new study on the epigenetic transmission of PTSD risk markers.
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