The artists: Dali, Dante, Heine & Psychoanalysis : Freud, the feminists, & then the Russians from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues:

An early Labor Day weekend offers an opportunity to spend time reading the interesting posts on the international psychoanalytic website. It is a time of turmoil in the world and will hopefully offer some respite as well as some insight into the societal issues.

My choices this week are:

1) For those of us who did not know much about the Islamic State – The “Fertile Crescent had been a cradle to strange and fascinating sects” – the post about the “land of lost gods” in the Art Category is a must! Continue reading The artists: Dali, Dante, Heine & Psychoanalysis : Freud, the feminists, & then the Russians from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions

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Click Here to Read: From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions Neuroscience encourages us to think of our brains as calculation machines, but such analogies, while useful, also demonstrate our limitations by Vaughan Bell in The Observer on July 26, 2014.

Paraplegic Juliano Pinto kicked off this year’s World Cup using a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton.

 

Researcher shows how stress hormones promote brain’s building of negative memories

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Click Here to Read:  Researcher shows how stress hormones promote brain’s building of negative memories on The Medical Xpress Research Website on July 24, 2014.

The ASU study’s findings about stress hormones, such as cortisol (3-D rendering seen above), are important as they pertain to women, since women are twice as likely to develop disorders from stress and trauma that affect memory, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons