Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Empathy for Pain and Touch in the Human Somatosensory Cortex
Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies hint at the social implications of this experience. Here we used somatosensory-evoked potentials (S...
Emotion and Consciousness
Edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. Niedenthal, Piotr Winkielman Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologist...
Dream content: Individual and generic aspects
Dream reports were collected from normal subjects in an effort to determine the degree to which dream reports can be used to identify individual dreamers. Judges were asked to group the reports by their authors. The judges scor...
How Schizophrenia Develops: Major Clues Discovered
Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue. The researcher...
Feeling Sleepy Is All In Your Genes
Genes responsible for our 24 hour body clock influence not only the timing of sleep, but also appear to be central to the actual restorative process of sleep, according to research published in BMC Neuroscience. The study ident...
Prefrontal decision making
The role of the prefrontal cortex in decision making is today placed on a solid scientific foundation. But for the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMF), it is still uncertain whether it plays a role in decision making under unc...
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