Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The State of Texas now allows guns in state-run psychiatric hospitals, according to the Statesman. I am genuinely lost for words.
Sifting the Evidence has an excellent piece on the science behind the UK’s new lowered alcohol intake recommendations.
Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism in Neuroscience. Thought-provoking piece from Knowing Neurons.
The New York Times has an excellent piece on the psychology of the con.
Human clinical trials planned for revolutionary neuroscience technique optogenetics, reports Scientific American.
The Atlantic has a wonderful piece on how we coordinate conversations between us with the most precise synchronisation.
There’s a good piece on the psychopharmacology of new psychoactive substances in Cerebrum.
The New York Times reports how psychologists have now been quietly but officially withdrawn from working with Guantanamo detainees.
We need more pieces like this on male mental health: Ex-editor of lad’s mags Loaded and GQ talks on “How therapy saved my life” in The Telegraph.
A radio station run by patients that broadcasts from inside an Argentinean psychiatric hospital. Al Jazeera with an excellent documentary.
Geek medal to this man: Neurosurgeon criticises latest Bond movie over anatomically inaccurate depiction of how to drill out the fusiform gyrus. Gizmodo has the story.
Mind Hacks 
Interesting that Radio La Colifata is based in Argentina. There’s a cult noise band called Reynols that are also from Argentina, formed by a drummer with Down’s syndrome and his two music teachers. They’re very interesting, great concepts and output. Here’s a write-up about them:
http://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2015/04/26/weird-band-of-the-week-reynols/
maybe its on my end…but the link doesn’t seem to work here – and i was really curious!
‘“How therapy saved my life” in The Telegraph’