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ASSC — call for abstracts
ASSC promotes interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific study of consciousness. This year’s conference will not disappoint, with numerous exciting events and symposia that will bring you up-to-date with the cutting-edg...
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Altruistic punishment
Why do we punish others? And why do we punish when it is personally costly? In a recent review in Nature Review Neuroscience Ben Seymour and colleagues discuss the neurobiology of punishment.
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They love to make you mad
Some people find angry looks from others so rewarding they go out of their way to encourage them, Michigan researchers said. “It’s kind of striking that an angry facial expression is consciously valued as a very neg...
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Emotion
A new issue of Emotion is out, including articles on: emotion inference appraisals emotional competence in children multimodal expression of emotion
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On the (sound) track of anesthetics
Danish scientists challenge the accepted scientific views of how nerves function and of how anesthetics work. Their research suggests that action of nerves is based on sound pulses and that anesthetics inhibit their transmissio...
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Can we improve mind reading?
Is it possible to improve our ability to read other’s minds? In the case of mind-reading disabilities such as that found in autism spectrum disorder, it has been suggested that it is possible to train patients to become b...
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Scientists Try to Predict Intentions
In case you didn’t hear about it there are recent claims that brain scanners can predict people’s action before they act. Here is a report from Associated Press. At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a d...
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Out-of-body experiences may be caused by arousal system disturbances in brain
Near death, sleep-wake transition have same likelihood of correlating to out-of-body experiences Having an out-of-body experience may seem far-fetched to some, but for those with arousal system disturbances in their brains, it ...
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Bipolar depression — treatment and perils
Why is it seemingly more difficult to treat bipolar depression than bipolar mania? Why does it seem so hard to get the FDA to approve medications for bipolar depression? Medscape brings the latest news.
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Biological Psychiatry — Special issue on autism
The journal Biological Psychiatry has a special issue on the autism spectrum, its diagnosis and treatment. It is a comprehensive yet diverse collection of multidisciplinary treatment of the issue, containing articles onautism a...