Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
PsychCentral tackles the recent internet addiction nonsense and asks What’s That Smell? It turns out it’s Internet Addiction Disorder in The News.
BBC Radio 4’s excellent history of ideas programme In Our Time has recently had editions on the philosopher Kierkegaard and early computationalist Ada Lovelace.
The BPS Research Digest explains a new study on frustrating tip-of-the-tongue states with bonus bit on how to overcome them.
Psychedelic artist extraordinaire, Alex Grey, is interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle about his art and tripping (thanks Laurie!)
Dr Petra Boyton looks at international headlines linking anger, mental illness and Britain and notes that they’re based on a rather dodgy market research survey.
The limits of certainty in diagnosis and medicine are explored by The New York Times.
Neurophilosophy looks at a comparative study on the possible evolutionary development of a key language pathway in the brain.
Removing brain tumours can be tricky at the best of times, especially when the operation is on a 7-year-old-girl. The New York Times has an article and video on one such procedure.
Scientific American Mind looks at the effects of the surprisingly common occurrence of postpartum (post-pregnancy) depression beyond the individual effect on the mother.
In praise of booze. The New Humanist shings the praises of the world’s favourite fight enabler.
The New York Times has a review of the Willard hospital suitcase exhibition we featured the other day.
The application of shoe smell to epileptic seizures. No really. Neurocritic has some fantastic coverage of an upcoming scientific article on the phenomenon.
New Scientist reports that belly fat linked to increased risk for dementia. Not particularly startling, but emphasises the point that one of the best ways of keeping your brain healthy is to look after your cholesterol, blood pressure and cardiovascular fitness.
The six degrees of autism. Discover Magazine has a funky network analysis of schizophrenia, bipolar and autism comorbidity.
Wired reports that Pfizer computers have been hacked to send out, wait for it, v1agra spam.
A thorough debunking of determining personality from handwriting can be found on PsyBlog.
The New York Review of Books has a megareview of several books on happiness.
Sharp Brains has a fantastic article by neuroscientist Shannon Moffett on sleep, Tetris, memory and the brain.
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