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New books on consciousness
It’s been a while since we announced new books, but here we present some of the most recent titles that should grab your attention.
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Anhedonia — great intro and review at Medscape.com
Medscape.com has a very nice article on anhedonia, which is described as “an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction”. Here, ...
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Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness
Humans normally experience the conscious self as localized within their bodily borders. This spatial unity may break down in certain neurological conditions such as out-of-body experiences, leading to a striking disturbance of ...
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When the Need to Belong Goes Wrong
When the Need to Belong Goes Wrong: The Expression of Social Anhedonia and Social Anxiety in Daily Life People possess an innate need to belong that drives social interactions. Aberrations in the need to belong, such as social ...
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Chimps hold out
Researchers have found that chimps know how to distract themselves with play in order to ward off temptation. Most children practice this mental trick: When asked to wait patiently for a promised treat–say, an hour of tel...
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Toddlers are capable of introspection
Preschoolers are more introspective than we give them credit for, according to new research by Simona Ghetti, assistant professor of psychology at UC Davis. Ghetti and her co-investigator, Kristen Lyons, a graduate student in p...
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Ventromedial moral
Does the ventromedial prefrontal cortex play a role in personal moral judgment? Medscape.com has a nice report on 7 patients with lesions in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex that find that “the ventromedial prefrontal c...
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Trating panic disorders — an update
Psychotherapy and benzodiazepines have been reported as effective panic disorder treatments individually with different benefits and disadvantages. Does combining the therapies offer extra advantages? Medscap.com brings a report.
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Neurology: An awakening
Neuroscientists and engineers are developing ways to help patients overcome paralysis and stroke. But what about mental function itself? Can medical intervention restore consciousness? Nature runs a story on thalamic stimulatio...
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Psychological Science, new issue
A new issue of Psychological Science is now out, including papers on autistic intelligence, testosterone and conscious detection, self-reference in episodic memory, and the relationship between planning and perception.