Click Here to Read:  Pollutant Changes Sexual Preference by Cassandra Willyard on the Science Website on November 30, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  A Brain Made of Memristors By Massimiliano Versace, PhD  on the Brain Blogger website on December 18, 2010. 

Computer Scan

Click Here to Read:  The Kids Can’t Help It What new research reveals about the adolescent brain—from why kids bully to how the teen years shape the rest of your life by Russ Juskalian in Newsweek Magazine on December 16, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  An Odyssey Through the Brain by An Odyssey Through the Brain By Abgail Zuger in the New York Times on November 29, 2010.

SHOWER OF COLORS Carl Schoonover, 27, who is midway through a Ph.D. program in neuroscience at Columbia, decided to draw the general reader into his subject with the sheer beauty of its images in “Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century,” newly published by Abrams.

Click Here to Read:  Gene therapy ‘memory boost hope’  on the BBC Website on November 29, 2010.

Protein ‘plaques’ build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s

Click Here to Read:  Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science. Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science By David H. Freedman in the November Issues of  The Atlantic Magazine.

Click Here to Read: Other Reviews of  John Ioannidis’s book on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Glimpsing the Brain’s Powers (and Limits) by Edward Rothstein in The New York Times on November 19, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Stem cells used in stroke trial By Pallab Ghosh on the BBC News website on November 16. 2010.

Trial patients will get progressively higher doses of stem cells

Click Here to Read: Bees reveal nature-nurture secrets on the Medical Daily website on November 3, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  The Honey Bee Epigenomes: Differential Methylation of Brain DNA in Queens and Workers by Frank Lyko, Sylvain Foret, Robert Kucharsk, Stephan Wolf, Cassandra Falckenhayn and Ryszard Maleszka on the  PloS Biology website.