Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
One I missed before – The New York Review of Books has an extended and thoughtful review of a stack of cognitive science books and Neurophilosophy has a great commentary.
The New York Times reports on the challenges of $600-a-session patients. Interesting to note it’s all described in terms of psychoanalysis – a therapy strangely ghettoed among the well-to-do.
TV producer creates a video documentary about his brain surgery for Parkinson’s disease.
Neuroanthropology discusses the best way of going about studying neuroanthropology and the problems you might face from other researchers worried about this crazy new mix of neuroscience and culture.
The history of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test is covered by Advances in the History of Psychology.
Wired notes that victims of ‘mind control‘ are to gather in Connecticut for a annual conference.
Fluoxetine for Fido. The New York Times examines the growing trend for using psychiatric drugs on pets.
To the bunkers! Channel N has a video on neurorobotics.
The BPS Research Digest finds a video discussion between psychologist Jonathan Haidt and political scientist Will Wilkinson on the psychology of morality.
Research finding <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/07/infants_remember_more_by_chunking_groups.php
“>memory ‘chunking’ in infants is covered by the excellent Not Quite Rocket Science.
SharpBrains has one of its bi-weekly round-ups of its interviews and all that’s new in the world of cognitive enhancement.
More from The New York Times, this time on the commercial release of the Emotiv Systems ‘brain reading’ gamer’s headset.
Cognitive Daily report on how playing video games can improve visual acuity.
Wall-E and and the evolution of emotion expression is discussed by Frontal Cortex.
Mind Hacks 