Scicon Review
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The effort-decision brain circuitry
What are the brain areas responsible for decision making? And is there a difference between easy and hard decisions? In an article in Cerebral Cortex, researchers find that amygdala and prefrontal cortex form an interconnected ...
Genetic Mechanism Helps Explain Chronic Pain Disorders
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that commonly occurring variations of a gene trigger a domino effect in chronic pain disorders. The finding might lead to more effective treatments ...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology: New issues
Did you know that there is a journal that seeks to combine phenomenology and psychology? Phenomenology is, among other things, described as “an approach to philosophy that takes intuitive experience of phenomena (what pre...
Inducing a dreamy state
Brain stimulation provides an interesting tool to study the functions of a given area of the brain. In a study by Vignal et al. published in Brain, artificial stimulation or seizures in specific mesial temporal lobe structures ...
Personality and Individual Differences: new issue
A new issue of Personality and Individual Differences is out. It includes articles on self-injury in female vs. male psychiatric patients self-monitoring style and suggestibility thought suppression memory distortions in self-e...
Functional neuroimaging in unconscious states
Steven Laureys and colleagues ask whether functional imaging methods such as fMRI and PET can be used to detect consciousness in individual patients. Recent studies have showed activation patterns in a vegetative patient that a...
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