A zap to the brain makes you think people are more attractive

By Tamar SchwartzJune 22, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: A zap to the brain makes you think people are more attractive by Meghan Holohan on NBC News website on June 21, 2013.

Most of us can’t actually be as attractive as professional good-looking people like Kate Upton. But new research shows that an electrical shock to the brain can make people perceive other people to be more attractive. The research may one day point toward new treatments for neurological disorders like depression or Parkinson’s.

Depression: ED psychiatrists perform nuanced assessments of traumatized patients

By Tamar SchwartzJune 22, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: Depression: ED psychiatrists perform nuanced assessments of traumatized patients by jack Pula on the Clinical Psychiatry News Website on June 4, 2013.

Jack Pula

Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience

By Tamar SchwartzJune 22, 2013 Audio/Video, Books, Science News

Click Here to View: The authors of Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience, Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld, in Conversation with David Brooks on the AEI 75 website on Monday June 17, 2013.

Scientists create high-resolution 3-D atlas of human brain

By Tamar SchwartzJune 21, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: Scientists create high-resolution 3-D atlas of human brain By Meeri Kim in the Washington Post on June 20, 2013.

This is your brain on happy

By Tamar SchwartzJune 20, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: This is your brain on happy: Machine can read your emotions by Maggie Fox on the NBC News website on June 19, 2013.

David Brooks on “Neurocentrism”

By Tamar SchwartzJune 18, 2013 Editorials, Science News

Click here to Read: Beyond the Brain By David Brooks in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.

David Brooks on “Neurocentrism”

Brooks in today’s NYT’s column cites several recent books that reframe the popularity of brain picturing in today’s science and popular press.

He summarizes four conceptual complications about using brain imaging alone to explain our functioning. First, that a brain region may serve a variety of different tasks. Second, (and complementary), that one task may use different brain reactions or states. Third, that one activity, such as ‘working memory’, may distribute over multiple regions (at least 30 in the case of working Continue reading David Brooks on “Neurocentrism”

Dad’s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows

By Tamar SchwartzJune 17, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: Dad’s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows on the Huffington Post website on June 16, 2013.

Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses

By Tamar SchwartzJune 15, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses By James Dao in The New York Times on June 14, 2013.

Ronald Brown, a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, has had health problems since 1992.

The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious

By Tamar SchwartzJune 14, 2013 Papers, Science News

Click Here to Read: The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious by Heather A. Berlin (New York).

This article originally appeared as Berlin, Heather (2011). The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious Neuropsychoanalysis 13 (1) and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read: Neuroscience Meets
Psychoanalysis by Heather Berlin in Scientific American Mind

Closed Thinking

By Tamar SchwartzJune 5, 2013 Science News

Click Here to Read: Closed Thinking: Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere By Bruce Bower in Science News June 1, 2013; Vol.183 #11.