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Consul-At-Arms (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Los Angeles Times Pakistani neuroscientist is indicted in U.S. Federal authorities say Aafia Siddiqui, a 36-year-old mother of three, had notes mentioning a 'mass casualty attack.' By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 3, 2008 WASHINGTON -- A U.S.- educated female Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of links to Al Qaeda who was captured in Afghanistan in July was carrying
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University of Guelph News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The controversial chemical Bisphenol A commonly found in hard plastic food and drink containers may impair the brain's ability to learn and remember according to a groundbreaking study conducted by researchers at the University of Guelph and Yale University. The study reveals that continuous low doses of Bisphenol A (BPA) hinders the formation of synapses in the brain, which allow neurons to communicate...
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Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
NEW YORK:A Pakistani woman who is in US custody for being al Qaeda suspect has refused a strip search, delaying her trial in New York on charges she grabbed a US soldier’s gun in Afghanistan and tried to kill her American interrogators. Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a US-trained neuroscientist who was shot in the abdomen during the [...]
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thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Is There a ‘Mozart Effect’? Ask a Neuroscientist and a Musicologist Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions that such research has produced some unintended consequences, such as the mistaken notion that [...]
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Cognitive Psychology Arena (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Infant Pathways to Language Methods, Models, and Research Directions Edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle, Lisa Freund The behavioral and brain sciences are faced with important new challenges at the beginning of the new millennium. The enormous progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood,...
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Neurophilosophy (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the Nature Neuroscience podcast NeuroPod , presenter Kerri Smith talks to authors of new papers from that journal about their research. The August 2008 episode (which is embedded above) includes discussions about the development of the concept of fairness in children and the effects of how imprinting of maternal and paternal genes affects development of the brain. There's also more about how magic...
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Washington, Sept 3 : Scientists at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and University Hospital have found that a surgical technique called deep brain stimulation relieves Parkinson's symptoms by halting the death of dopamine-producing brain cells.
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Federal authorities say Aafia Siddiqui, a 36-year-old mother of three, had notes mentioning a 'mass casualty attack.' A U.S.- educated female Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of links to Al Qaeda who was captured in Afghanistan in July was carrying handwritten notes referring to a "mass casualty attack" and famous locations in New York, including the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty,...
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Channel N (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
title Seed Salon: David Byrne and Daniel Levitin description "The singer/songwriter/artist/author enters the Seed Salon to discuss music with the producer/neuroscientist." Language, glossolia, music cognition, studying music, mirror neurons, memory, and more. They consider musical craft and the ability to evoke emotional responses, and consider authenticity for the listener. Byrne says, "You can know...
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Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Last word is resting well at home. No further episodes, still waiting for appointment with a neurologist to find out just what the hell's going on. The good thoughts appreciated, folks.
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nimrods (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Today I finally came to the end of my year of living dangerously. This is the last day of my Neuroscience MSc, and I've just picked up my result from the notice pinned outside the course supervisor's office. This afternoon I travelled over to the Institute with my heart in my mouth, dosing myself with coffee and chocolate at St Pancreas to fortify myself for the shock. It was a Distinction! So I'm...
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The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The contributors to the blog OnFiction profess to be doing "research on the psychology of fiction." If we take this to encompass broadly the increasing popularity of "cognitive theory" and neuroscience in the analysis of literature and our response to...
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Landcroft House (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Well, these people think it is and I, for one, am in no mood to argue. I've read every single one of these I can get my hands (eyes) on and have yet to feel even the tiniest flicker of electrical pleasure crossing my eager synapses. This, in a perverse kind of way, makes me like them more. You reach a sort of Zen relaxation point after your fourth or fifth strip where not much seems to matter
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
The season of mists, mellow fruitfulness, and leaves on the line is almost upon us. But, scientists have discovered that rather than blaming the train companies, passengers suffering annual delays should look to the weather forecast. According to research published in the International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering, it is a dry period followed by drizzly or misty weather that leads to...
