Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
No, there is no evidence for a link between video games and Alzheimer’s disease, reports HeadQuarters after recent media bungles. We’re still waiting to hear on SimCity and Parkinson’s disease though.
The American Psychiatric Association has a new corporate video that looks like a Viagra advert.
BPS Research Digest reports on a fascinating study that gives a preliminary taxonomy of the voices inside your head.
What does fMRI measure? Essential piece from the Brain Box blog that gives an excellent guide to fMRI.
New Republic has an excellent piece on the proliferation of ‘trigger warnings’ and puts them in context of the history of PTSD, war and society.
Someone freeze-framed the movie Ex Machina and ran the code displayed on one of the monitors. Here’s what it does.
Atlas Obscura has a series of photos originally taken by pioneering neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing to document the early days of brain surgery.
What Can “Lived Experience” Teach Neuroscientists? asks Neuroskeptic. On why so many of these debates assume scientists are not people with mental health problems.
Reuters reports that a clinical psychologist has been put in charge of one of American’s largest prisons. “When a third of your population is mentally ill, you sure as heck better have someone who understands that at the top”.
Brain implants in the parietal lobe let paralyzed man move robotic arm reports Science News
Mind Hacks 
That’s a truly awful advert for the American Psychiatric Assoc…..and is the male-female ratio of practitioners faithfully reflected?