Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
C-List celebrity is photographed with a psychology book in her hand and New York Magazine is all over it like Glenn Greenwald with an encrypted harddrive.
The New York Times covers a Dutch scheme to get alcoholics working by paying them in beer. Scheme to get stoners working by paying them in weed probably not as effective.
The British Medical Journal has an entertaining interview with psychiatrist Simon Wessely.
Soaring dementia rates prompt call for global action, reports New Scientist.
Bloomberg reports that the rate of US teens on psychiatric drugs remains steady at 6%. Hey, it could be worse.
Research on illicit drugs is being hampered by daft drug laws says David Nutt in Scientific America. Clearly not the worst scientific censorship “since the banning of the telescope” but the point remains.
Brain Watch has a good round up of discussions surrounding the ‘men and women’s brains are wired differently therefore stereotypes’ study that has been getting everyone’s unisex underwear in a twist.
Electric brain stimulation triggers eye-of-the-tiger effect. Not Exactly Rocket Science has the power-chords (and maybe the power cords – hard to see from this angle).
NPR has one of the few left-brain / right-brain articles you’ll ever want to read. Neuroscientist Tania Lombroso takes a detailed look at the science behind the concept.
The science of hatred. The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent piece on the psychology of genocide and racism.
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