PLoS Medicine has an eye-opening study on how the local price of alcohol is related to the level of violence in the area.
To the bunkers! Robot removes brain tumour.
BBC News Magazine has an interesting piece on ‘celebrities we love to hate’ with comments on the phenomenon of celebrity from a number of sociologists.
ABC Radio National’s excellent All in the Mind had a great edition on the science of happiness.
Petra Boyton looks at a recent study on how alcohol and drug use among European young people is deliberately and strategically linked to sexual behaviour.
An US Iraq veteran who wrote about his PTSD, sadly, kills himself.
BPS Research Digest picks up on interesting new study that found that women’s memories are more speech-filled than men’s.
Am I part of the cure, or am I part of the disease? Scientific American looks at the psychological health benefits of blogging, and on the flip side, whether it’s driven by pathology.
Those concerned about their blogging habits may want to diagnose themselves with a couple of light-hearted lists of social media related psychopathologies.
PsyBlog reports on a new study that found that online daters site spend seven times longer looking at other people’s profiles and sending emails than they did going on real dates.
Frontal Cortex has found a interesting video of someone’s speech function being temporarily ‘switched off’ by TMS.
Getting doctors to routinely enquire about domestic violence may help detect and prevent this vastly under-recognised problem, according to The New York Times.
Psychological Science has an accurate (if not slightly formulaic) article on ‘mirror neurons‘.
Researcher mull possible use of oxytocin to treat social phobia, reports BBC News.
Computer World asks the somewhat ridiculous question “Asperger’s and IT: Dark secret or open secret?”. Secret? How about “Asperger’s and IT: blessing or gift?”
One of the original internet psychologists, John Suler, has a posse… sorry, blog.
The Wall Street Journal reports “Research shows that people often do get a high from shopping – the brain releases chemicals such as dopamine or serotonin”. Oh gag me, please. Release us from these tired, misleading clich√©s.
Sage Journals are giving away free access on registration to all their academic journals until the end of May (thanks Patricio!).
BBC News reports on unlikely suggestions to bring in testing for brain doping in school students.
Could an Acid Trip Cure Your OCD? The use of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental illness is considered by Discover Magazine.
The New York Times has some brief audio interviews of people talking about their experience with ADHD.
Older brains may be slower because they’ve just got more information to sift through. The advantages and disadvantages of wisdom are considered by The New York Times.
The ironies of peer pressure: smokers give up in groups, reports BBC News.
Drugs, anthropology and embodied cognition. A lost weekend, or a collection of interesting links from Neuroanthropology. You decide.
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