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Date & Place:06 September 2011 - Wellcome Trust news
Twenty years after the publication of the first human study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)* - a technique to measure activity in the brain through the flow of blood - the Wellco ...
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Date & Place:28 August 2011 - BBC news
By DAVID WILLIS - I'm dying. I'm convinced of it. The evidence is simply overwhelming.
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Date & Place:15 August 2011 - NewScientist Opinion
By SAMUEL BARONDES - Why are we all so different? Here is a toolkit for finding out what people are really like
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Date & Place:03 August 2011 - Nature comment
By DAVID B. GOLDSTEIN - There could be unexpected consequences if greater understanding of disease genetics gives parents more choice in what they pass to their children.
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Date & Place:26 July 2011 - The Wall Street Journal article
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS - The familiar heel prick that newborns receive is revealing more about a baby's health than ever before. But, as technology opens the possibility of screening newborns for hu ...
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Date & Place:24 July 2011 - PsychCentral article
By JOHN M. GROHOL -Last month, Andrew Brown writing for the UK's Guardian, noted when Professor David Nutt kept referring to depression as a "brain disease" on a popular UK television program.
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Date & Place:23 July 2011 - New York Times opinion
By DAVID J. LINDEN - WHEN we think of the qualities we seek in visionary leaders, we think of intelligence, creativity, wisdom and charisma, but also the drive to succeed, a hunger for innovation, ...
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Date & Place:17 June 2011 - H+ Magazine article
By EDDIE GERONIMO - Won't the development of human genetic engineering lead to a less diverse world in which the undesirable extremes of human behavior, intelligence and physique are eliminated? Be ...
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Date & Place:13 July 2011 - Nature Perspective
By SAM GANDY - Attempts to reduce amyloid-β in the brain have yet to show clinical benefits. Starting treatment early is the best hope.
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Date & Place:13 July 2011 - Nature comment
By Carlos D. Bustamante, Francisco M. De La Vega & Esteban G. Burchard - Medical genomics has focused almost entirely on those of European descent. Other ethnic groups must be studied to ensure tha ...
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Date & Place:19 June 2011 - New York Times article
By PATRICIA COHEN - It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on genetics and crime after outraged complaints that the idea smack ...
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Date & Place:17 June 2011- Psychiatric News
By MARC MORAN - A surprising finding from genomic research is that mental illnesses appear to be related to extremely rare but potent genetic mutations that are not associated with any specific dis ...
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Date & Place:17 June 2011 - Forbes blog
By DAVID DISALVO - Neuroscience is in many ways a discipline still in its infancy, making it ripe for claims that veer closer to science fiction than science. In this post I've taken a cut at descr ...
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Date & Place:27 May 2011 - Psych Central article
By LAUREN MIGLIORE - I'm trying to be patient, but J'en ai marre!! - I'm fed up!! At least at times, that's how I feel. There's the grammar, the pronunciation and the vocabulary.
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Date & Place:27 May 2011 - Science Careers
By ELISABETH PAIN - Sara Burke has a vivid memory of how neuroscience first drew her attention. She was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Oregon, Eugene, sitting in an introd ...
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Date & Place:20 May 2011 - CNN article
By PATRICK KENNEDY - A recession loomed large in the nation's rear-view mirror. The economic recovery, still fragile, was marred by chronic unemployment, especially for workers whose jobs had been ...
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Date & Place:20 May 2011 - NewScientist article
By NIC FLEMING - Of all the ways that we have been aided by technology, forging a direct link between our brains and computers is the most intimate yet. Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) are poised t ...
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Date & Place:18 May 2011 - Nature editorial
Biology is like economics, participants at a European Commission meeting on personalized medicine in Brussels heard last week: they are both complex and neither is properly understood. The view str ...
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Date & Place:17 May 2011 - Scientific American article
By JAMIE HORDER - What if schizophrenia or autism are just symptoms of a deeper disorder? A scientist explains the early, exciting findings from copy number variation (CNV) studies
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Date & Place:15 Mai 2011 - The Guardian article
By RAPHAEL BEHR - No book will convince me that man only ever acts in rational terms
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Date & Place:14 Mai 2011 - Wall Stree Journal article
By MATT RIDLEY - It's presumably neither ethical nor practical, but supposing that somebody could sequence Osama bin Laden's genome, which genes would you want to examine to try to understand his v ...
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Date & Place:13 May 2011 - Los Angeles Times interview
By ERYN BROWN - USC's Dr. Antonio Damasio's latest work, 'Self Comes to Mind,' explores how consciousness evolved and how it contributes to our culture.
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Date & Place:12 Mai 2011 - New York Times blog
By MILT FREUDENHEIM - Karen Alexander says she is "one of the lucky ones." Ten years after learning she has Parkinson's disease, she takes two drugs to control her symptoms and so far has few of th ...
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Date & Place:05 May 2011 - Discover Magazine
By KYLE MUNKITTRICK - Imagine you know everything on Wikipedia, in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the contents of every book in digital form.
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Date & Place:21 April 2011 - The Guardian blog
Dr Patrick Degenaar explains how retinal prosthetics may one day allow humans to see in ultraviolet and infrared, a concept explored in a film unveiled at the HUMAN+ exhibition in Dublin.
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Date & Place:15 April 2011 - Science
By ROBERT MITCHELL, JOHN M. CONLEY, ARLENE M. DAVIS, R- JEAN CADIGAN, ALLISON W. DOBSON, and RYAN Q. GLADDEN - Genomic biobanks-repositories of human DNA and/or associated data, collected and maint ...
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Date & Place:13 April 2011 - Scientific American article
By MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA - Brain scans and other types of neurological evidence are rarely a factor in trials today. Someday, however, they could transform judicial views of personal credibility and ...
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Date & Place:11 April 2011 - Guardian news
By CHARLIE BROOKER - You wouldn't want a computer to unquestioningly act on what's inside your head
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Date & Place:21 March 2011 - Forbes blog
By HAMMAD AZZAM - The molecular dance in biological beings is one of the most fascinating orchestrations in the micro-world, and the processes governing this tango are unanimously acknowledged to b ...
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Date & Place:19 March 2011 - Brain Blogger
By KITTY HOLMAN - Reading any newspaper, whether online or in print, whether a serious publication like the New York Times or one that's more entertainment-minded like Oprah Magazine, you will inva ...
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Date & Place:15 March 2011 - Dana Foundation
By GUY MCKHANN - For a brain scientist who has been around for awhile, as I have, the term "psychosurgery" induces the shivers.
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Date & Place:04 March 2011 - Time news
By ALICE PARK - Pain is the human bodyguard, the cop on the beat racing to the scene, sirens wailing, shutting down traffic. You've been cut, burned, broken: pay attention, stop the bleeding, apply ...
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Date & Place:04 March 2011 - Psychiatric News
By JOAN AREHART-TREICHEL - Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, M.D., contends that analysts can use brain imaging to ask questions about the brain that no one else is asking-say, what parts are involved in ...
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Date & Place:12 February 2011 - Guardian book review
By STEVEN ROSE - Steven Rose examines a neurologist's attempt to explain why we have conscious selves
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Date & Place:29 January 2011 - The Sidney Morning Herald news
By NICKY PHILLIPS - BEFORE the US presidential election in 2008 scientists reported they had, quite literally, peered into the minds of swinging voters.
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Date & Place:20 January 2011 - Scienceline article
By MADHU VENKATARAMANAN - Neural control of robot limbs is tantalizingly close for paralyzed patients. So what's holding the technology back?
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Date & Place:January 2011 - Nature Reviews Neurology
By CHRISTINE KLEIN & ANA DJARMATI - Mutations in six genes have been unequivocally linked to Parkinson disease (PD). A recent study found that among 953 patients with the early-onset form of PD, &a ...
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Date & Place:January 2011 - JAMA Medical News & Perspectives
By BRIDGET M. KUEHN - maging can help to identify early brain changes in patients who have not yet developed Huntington disease and in those in the early stages of the disease, according to the res ...
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Date & Place:02 Januar 2011 - Scotsman.com news
By LYNDSAY MOSS - THE use of advanced brain scans in areas such as law and advertising must be fully debated to make sure Scots are protected against the potential misuse of the technology, MSPs hav ...
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