Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
The benefits of deep-brain stimulation for a minimally conscious patient
The benefits of deep-brain stimulation for a minimally conscious patient have recently been reported in the journal Nature (click here for the article), as presented in a previous SCR post by Thomas Ramsoy. Here is another arti...
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