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Date & Place:03 September 2010 - Psychology Today blog
By SRINI PILLAY - Are you one of those people who simply cannot concentrate for long enough? Do you find that no sooner than you start doing something, that your attention is scattered all over the ...
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Date & Place:30 August 2010 - NewScientist article
By DAVID ROBSON - Can you tell a snake from a pretzel? Some can't - and their experiences are revealing how the brain builds up a coherent picture of the world
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Date & Place:26 August 2010 - Nature outlook
Like the condition itself, advances in understanding and treating Parkinson's disease have come slowly yet inexorably. Finally, however, we might be near the tipping point. With prevalence predicte ...
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Date & Place:24 August 2010 - The Washington Post news
By AARON JAMES - "We have a tsunami coming at us, and we're sitting in a rowboat," says neurologist Richard Mayeux of New York's Columbia University.
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Date & Place:14 August 2010 - The Singularity Summit abstract
By BRIAN LITT - Brain-computer interfaces (aka Brain-Machine Interfaces or Neuroprosthetics), long of interest to science fiction writers and creative thinkers, became a government funded research ...
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Date & Place:12 August 2010 - Nature Editorial
The burgeoning, but virtually unregulated, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic-testing industry faces some serious changes in the United States. In a series of hearings last month, the US Food and Dru ...
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Date & Place:09 August 2010 - NewScientist article
By GRAHAM LAWTON and CLARE WILSON - Why ask people what they think of a product when you can just scan their brains instead? New Scientist explores the brave new world of neuromarketing
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Date & Place:09 August 2010 - Wired blog
By JONAH LEHRER - There's an interesting new paper in Biological Psychiatry on the genetic variations underlying human personality. The study relied on a standard inventory of temperaments - novelt ...
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Date & Place:06 August 2010 - Science perspectives
By LAWRENCE S. WILKINSON - Things used to be relatively straightforward when it came to parental influences on gene action. Mom and Dad passed on one copy (or allele) of each autosomal gene to thei ...
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Date & Place:05 August 2010 - NewScientists opinion
By CATHERINE DE LANGE - Mapping grey matter has led Richard Haier to think that neuroimaging could tell people what work will suit them best.
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Date & Place:04 August 2010 - New York Times news analysis
By GINA KOLATA - Will Alzheimer's disease, a terrible degenerative brain disease with no treatments and no clear guidelines for diagnosis before its end stages, become like heart disease? That migh ...
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Date & Place:01 August 2010 - IEEE Spectrum feature
By MARK HARRIS - Can magnetic-resonance imaging show whether people are telling the truth?
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Date & Place:21 July 2010 - Singularity Hub news
By DREW HALLEY - An international team of researchers led by Dr. Matti Mintz at the University of Tel Aviv is working on a biomimetic computer chip for brain stimulation that is programmable, respo ...
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Date & Place:13 July 2010 - New York Times
By GINA KOLATA - For the first time in 25 years, medical experts are proposing a major change in the criteria for Alzheimer's disease, part of a new movement to diagnose and, eventually, treat the ...
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Date & Place:28 June 2010 - Discover Magazine article
By LAURIE RICH, JANE BOSVELD, ANDREW GRANT, AMY BARTH - New research involves a lot of different ways to affect the brain: drugs, electrical signals, and, yes, actually shining light on neurons.
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Date & Place:28 June 2010 - Scientific American feature
By KATHERINE HARMON - Even as scans get faster and cheaper, many diseases still have unknown or sketchy genetic correlates. How much stock should consumers put in personal genome sequencing?
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Date & Place:25 June 2010 - Newsweek
By MARY CARMICHAEL - Can a genetic test help patients get on the right antidepressant?
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Date & Place:25 June 2010 - Scientific American Guest Blog
By FRANCIS COLLINS - For those of you who like stories with simple plots and tidy endings, I must confess the tale of the Human Genome Project isn't one of those.
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Date & Place:23 June 2010 - JAMA commentary
By JON MCCLELLAN, MD; MARY-CLAIRE KING, PhD - The earth is shifting beneath psychiatric genetics. Schizophrenia and other complex neuropsychiatric disorders are characterized by genetic heterogenei ...
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Date & Place:17 June 2010 - Discover Magazine column
By CARL ZIMMER - The difference between one personality and another is not determined by genes alone. Love's got something to do with it too.
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Date & Place:16 June 2010 - Scientific American news
By LINDSEY KONKEL - The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease.
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Date & Place:16 June 2010 - Nature editorial
Taking personal genetic testing into the classroom brings ethical and legal sensitivities to the fore.
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Date & Place:11 June 2010 - Dotmed news
By BRENDON NAFZIGER - It's 2:00 a.m. the morning before the midterm. Eager to ward off sleep, a student pops a couple of modafinils, a drug originally designed to help those suffering from narcolep ...
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Date & Place:09 June 2010 - Guardian article
By JAMIE HORDER - Hi-tech 'lie detectors' have fascinated neuroscientists and the public alike for years, but whether they work is another matter
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Date & Place:08 June 2010 - CNN news
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - Potential cancer vaccine! Possible anxiety treatment! Scientific studies looking at potential therapies for physical and mental illness often sound exciting -- that is, until ...
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Date & Place:06 June 2010 - BBC news
By CAROLINE PARKINSON - Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.
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Date & Place:31 May 2010 - ABC news
By LESLIE CANNOLD AND LUIGI PALOMBI - Craig Venter is back in the news. The entrepreneurial geneticist recently announced he has created a new form of synthetic life.
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Date & Place:31 May 2010 - New York Times article
By KATHERINE ELLISON - I'm sitting in front of a gray plastic console that resembles an airplane cockpit. Each time I move, a small reflector on a makeshift tiara resting on my forehead alerts an in ...
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Date & Place:31 May 2010 - The Independent article
Virtual cadavers, needle-wielding robots - and not a scalpel in sight. Laura Spinney meets the research team behind the 'virtopsy', a radical new approach to forensic pathology
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Date & Place:28 May 2010 - Nova news
By TONY MALKOVIC - Bionic bodies have been depicted in science fiction for decades. Now, researchers are making bionics the new frontier of medical science, by creating hi-tech devices to help peopl ...
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Date & Place:25 May 2010 - New Yorker blog
By MARGARET TALBOT - Will brain scans that purport to show whether a person is lying someday be as common in courtrooms as eyewitness testimony?
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Date & Place:25 May 2010 - Daily Mail online
By JOHN NAISH - Ayden Hunt is a typical ten-year-old boy who loves his Xbox and playing table tennis and games in the family's South London home.
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Date & Place:24 May 2010 - Psychology Today blog
By JOHN ELDER ROBINSON - How does genetic research benefit people living with autism today? And why do scientists do autism research on mice? Those are two of the questions I discussed with researc ...
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Date & Place:18 May 2010 - Psychiatric Times article
By JOHN P. O'REARDON, MD, MURAT ALTINAY, MD, and PILAR CRISTANCHO, MD - Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is noninvasive focused brain stimulation that uses pulsed magnetic fields. The underl ...
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Date & Place:14 May 2010 - Science Careers news
By SIRI CARPENTER - What makes it possible for people to love, hate, help, or betray one another? How do we decode facial expressions? How do we understand and regulate our own emotional experience ...
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Date & Place:10 May 2010 - Discover blog
By ED YONG - A murder suspect sits in a quiet room with electrodes placed on her head. The prosecution reads out its narrative of the crime and the suspect's alleged role in it. As she listens, the ...
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Date & Place:May 2010 - The American Journal of Psychiatry Letter to the Editor
By BRYON ADINOFF, M.D., and MICHAEL DEVOUS, Ph.D. - We greatly appreciated the thoughtful book review by Andrew F. Leuchter, M.D. (1), published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal, on Daniel Amen ...
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Date & Place:30 April 2010 - Times online Eureka zone
By LOUISE WHITELEY - Kirsten, an ambitious New York lawyer, meets Michael, a young man who wants to appeal against his conviction for murder with evidence from a brain scan lie-detector test...
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Date & Place:27 April 2010 - Scientific American article
By TERRY SEJNOWSKI - Sooner than you think -- and the race has lately caused a 'catfight'
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Date & Place:23 April 2010 - Science perspectives
By THOMAS GRüTER and CLAUS-CHRISTIAN CARBON - Cognitive neuroscience continues to unravel complex perceptional and cognitive processes of the human brain, in part by combining functional and anatom ...
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Date & Place:20 April 2010 - New York Times opinion
By OLIVIA JUDSON - Being fat is bad for your brain. That, at least, is the gloomy conclusion of several recent studies.
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Date & Place:17 April 2010 - Scientific American interview
A 22-year-old author discusses the threat that brain science poses to our concept of free will.
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Date & Place:16 April 2010 - Psychiatric News
By JUN YAN - Like physical fitness, brain fitness can also be improved through exercise. As often happens, however, commercial products are rushing into the market ahead of research evidence on whe ...
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - The Journal Time.com article
By DAVID STEINKRAUS - In February, the British medical journal The Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that linked autism to childhood inoculations with the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubell ...
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - Fox news
By JUDITH HORSTMAN - The six-million dollar man was pure fantasy in the 70s -- but largely realistic technology today. And the future of this tech is even wilder: Implantable brain electrodes may b ...
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - Nature news feature
Databases could soon be flooded with genome sequences from 25,000 tumours. Heidi Ledford looks at the obstacles researchers face as they search for meaning in the data.
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Date & Place:09 April 2010 - Scientific American guest blog
By JOHN HORGAN - In recent posts, I've knocked neuroframing, neuroweapons and neurobics. Next up: neuro-lit-crit.
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Date & Place:05 April 2010 - Astrobiology Magazine hot topic
By LESLIE MULLEN - Cyborgs - human beings merged with machines -- are a staple of science fiction. Star Wars's Darth Vader, Star Trek's Borg, and the Cybermen of Dr. Who are variations on this theme ...
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Date & Place:04 April 2010 - The Globe and Mail article
By LIAM LACEY - In the future, instead of going to movie theatres and staring at giant screens, perhaps we will attach a cable to our computers, plug it into the sides of our skulls - and get lost. ...
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Date & Place:31 March 2010 - New York Times article
By PATRICIA COEHN - To illustrate what a growing number of literary scholars consider the most exciting area of new research, Lisa Zunshine, a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, re ...
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Date & Place:31 March 2010 - Nature Opinion
By J. CRAIG VENTER - Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge - linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease - will be as great as the one genomicists faced a de ...
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - NewScientist feature
The human brain is the most astoundingly complex structure in the known universe. Yet we are starting to unravel some of its mysteries, thanks to advances in brain imaging, genetics, stem cell rese ...
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Date & Place:29 March 2010 - New York Times article
By GINA KOLATA - Dr. Robert Colton, an internist in Boca Raton, Fla., has a problem, and he knows it. His patients come in wanting, sometimes demanding, tests and treatments that are unnecessary, j ...
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Date & Place:26 March 2010 - Times Online
By CATHERINE BRUTON - Will identifying 'bad mother' neurons prevent deaths such as Baby P's, or condemn women before they even give birth?
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Date & Place:19 March 2010 - NewScientist article
By GRAHAM LAWTON - In the basement room of a swanky private London club, a man in a baggy brown hat is watching an advert. Trailing from his hat is a bundle of wires connected to a laptop.
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Date & Place:19 March 2010 - Psychology Today blog
By PETER LOVATT - Wanted: very small people to dance in a brain scanner.
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Date & Place:19 March 2010 - Reuters
By KATE KELLAND - Barriers to understanding pain are starting to fall and scientists and drug firms say a fresh approach is producing potential new drugs to hit where it hurts.
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Date & Place:17 March 2010 - BBC news
By DOREEN WALTON - In the battle for our money and loyalty, companies wanting to sell us products have turned their attention to something right under our noses.
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Date & Place:12 March 2010 - The Independent analysis
It weighs about 3lb, has the consistency and appearance of cold porridge and is famous for being the most complex object in the known universe.
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Date & Place:12 March 2010 - Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog
I just finished reading an article recently published online in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience about "neuromarketing" -- the idea that brain scans might better reveal our propensity to buy ...
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Date & Place: 10 MARCH 2010 - ARS TECHNICA NEWS
By JOHN TIMMER - A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure: function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform.
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Date & Place:03 March 2010 - Nature Reviews Neuroscience perspective
By DAN ARIELY & GREGORY S. BERNS - The application of neuroimaging methods to product marketing - neuromarketing - has recently gained considerable popularity.
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Date & Place:28 February 2010 - The National article
By REHAN KHAN - Case, the flawed anti-hero of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, is desperate to link his brain through a computer interface back into cyberspace.
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Date & Place:26 February 2010 - Boing Boing blog
By MAGGIE KOERTH-BAKER - You know what they say about people with big brains ... Or, actually, maybe you don't.
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - JAMA commentary
In 2004, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors put forward a fundamental truth: "The case against selective reporting is particularly compelling for research that tests interventio ...
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Date & Place:18 February 2010 - CNN opinion
By ROBERT SCHWARTZ - About 20 years ago, 9-year-old Cameron Kocher fired a rifle out of a window of his home in upstate Pennsylvania and hit his 7-year-old neighbor, who was riding on a snowmobile, ...
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Date & Place:12 February 2010 - ExtremeTech article
By ROBERT OSCHLER - The ability to influence the physical world merely by thought has been a dream of mankind for many years.
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Date & Place:09 February 2010 - The Independent Opinion
By TOM SUTCLIFFE - A bus may get us long before we get to where science told us we were going
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Date & Place:08 February 2010 - Washington Post news
By LAURAN NEERGAARD - A critical safety net for babies - that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. - is facing an ethics attack.
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Date & Place:03 February 2010 - The New England Journal of Medicine Editorial
By ALLAN H. ROPPER, M.D. - What is left of the human being when the brain is badly damaged has been a question for philosophers and theologians.
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Date & Place:03 February 2010 - The Times Eureka special
By ANTONIA SENIOR et al. - It's been studied by scientists for centuries but we are still in awe of the workings and wonder of the human brain
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Date & Place:February 2010 - Virtual Mentor article
By JOSEPH J. FINS - For over a decade I have been part of a clinical trial at the vanguard of surgical innovation, the application of central thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) in severe traumat ...
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Date & Place:25 January 2010 - San Francisco Sentinel Blog
By RICH JAROSLOVKY - I have fascinating genes. At least, they fascinate me.
For the last several weeks, I've been getting up close and personal with my DNA as I compared three major do-it-yourse ...
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Date & Place:25 January 2010 - The Guardian AndrewBrown's blog
By ANDREW BROWN - Do we have any obligation to keep alive people whose brains no longer work properly?
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Date & Place: 24 JANUARY 2010 - SCIENCEDAILY PRESS RELEASE
What if a jury could decide a man's guilt through mind reading?
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Date & Place:19 January 2010 - The Kavli Foundation
HOW DOES THE BRAIN COMPUTE? Can we emulate the brain to create supercomputers far beyond what currently exists? And will we one day have tools small enough to manipulate individual neurons -- and i ...
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Date & Place:18 January 2010 - Timesonline article
By OLIVER JAMES - On the day many psychologists claim is the most depressing of the year, a writer argues that it is our toxic society, not our DNA, that triggers mental illness.
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Date & Place:07 January 2010 - New Scientist opinion
By RAY TALLIS - MOST neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain the mystery of human consciousness in terms of the activi ...
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Date & Place:04 January 2010 - CNN article
By ANNE HAMMOCK - In the shimmering fantasy realm of the hit movie "Avatar," a paraplegic Marine leaves his wheelchair behind and finds his feet in a new virtual world thanks to "the link," a sophis ...
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