Click Here To Read: Psychology beyond the Brain: What scientists are discovering by measuring the beating of the heart By Adam Waytz in the Scientific American on October 5, 2010. The background for this panel is the controversy stirred by Irwin Hoffman’s article “Doublethinking our way to ‘scientific’ legitimacy: The desiccation of human experience.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2009, 57, 5: 1043-1069.
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Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention
Click Here to Read: Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention By Katherine Ellison in the New York Times on October 4, 2010.
Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neuroscience of Selfhood
Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits
Tug of War Pits Genes of Parents in the Fetus
Scientists can scan brains for maturity, potentially gauging child development
Insomnia and Anxiety Medications Linked to Increased Mortality
Your Brain on Computers: Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain
The Odd Case of Phineas Gage
Robert Sapolsky on Stress and the Animal Kingdom
Click Here to Read and View: Robert Sapolsky on Stress and the Animal Kingdom: Can we learn to handle stress by observing animals in the wild? In trying times, the answers may be with the life and death decisions made by these animals and their predators: An interview with Robert Sapolsky by Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the NIMH on the NIMH website.
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