Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Is America Less Mentally Healthy Than A Chilean Jail? asks Neuroskeptic.
BPS Research Digest had a special series of articles on people with exceptional abilities such as super calculators, super recognisers and super agers.
Social psychologists say war is not inevitable – according to e! Science News. Tell that to the social priming folks.
CNET has an in-depth article on how IBM is making computers more like your brain both with neuromorphic chips and a liquid power supply.
What your cinema seat says about your personality, according to psychologist Hiromi Mizuki and some crappy PR story from Australia’s Daily Telegraph
CBS Seattle: Psychologist loses license after prostitute steals laptop. Probably after reading that shit PR story on cinemas.
Sleep ‘cleans’ the brain of toxins reports BBC News. I knew it couldn’t be trusted.
New Scientist reports that the “belief that I’m dead” Cotard delusion has been weakly linked to an anti-viral medication although it’s baffling as to why.
The neuroscientists behind Obama’s billion-dollar BRAIN Initiative published a paper in Neuron outlining ideas for the project. Summary: ‘Shit. What do we do now?’
The Guardian publishes an in-depth profile of the head of Europe’s billion dollar brain project, Henry Markram. Summary: ‘Brains? I thought this was an IT project?’
Mind Hacks 
It seems like an article based on sensationalism. With 3.5 million sq mi, a huge population and 9 different climate zones, the U.S. is hardly comparable to one country’s prison system. Even as the article sums up that conclusion, I’m not sure why someone would even fabricate that topic unless they’re trying to play on the recent “America is crazy” hysteria.