Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
New Scientist reports that sleeping brains can process and respond to words. Forward directly to boss.
“Cyranoids” – Stanley Milgram’s Creepiest Experiment. Neuroskeptic covers the science behind a little known Milgram experiment and a curiously common TV trope.
The Neurocritic reports on a case of mistakenly garnishing your dish with hallucinogenic flowers.
America’s New Bedlam. Genuinely disturbing BBC Radio Assignment documentary on mental illness in US prisons. Podcast at this mp3 link.
Science News reports on the lack of research on the science of potty training.
Well, what do you know. The Fix reports that anti-marijuana academics are being paid by makers of prescription opiates.
io9 reports on a woman with no cerebellum – one of the few known cases on congenital cerebellar agenesis.
Brain surgeon Henry Marsh, who has had a long relationship with Ukraine, writes in The Guardian of his experience of being there during the recent upheaval.
Mind Hacks 