Click Here to Read: Mapping the brain’s superhighways. Scanning technique reveals order to information flowBy Laura Sanders on the Science News website on March 29th, 2012.
Category: Science News
A Little Device That’s Trying to Read Your Thoughts
Brain scan foretells who will fold under pressure
ADHD Is Over-Diagnosed, Experts Say
Eric Kandel’s Vision
Neuroscience and the pursuit of justice
Click Here to Read: Neuroscience and the pursuit of justice By Angela Herring on the news @ Northeastern website on March 23, 2012.
Dr. Judith Edersheim of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior delivered the 13th annual Francine and Michael Saferstein Memorial Lecture in Forensic Science on Tuesday
Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study
“This article studies the statistical association between hypnotics use (for sleep) and increased mortality. They review over 30,000 patients for 2.5 years, controlling for other health variables.
Of course, statistical correlation is not the same as causality. But, the paper gives us pause and opportunity to pursue this further.”
N. Szajnberg, MD
Click Here to Read: Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study by Daniel F Kripke, Robert D Langer, and Lawrence E Kline on the BMJ Open newsletter on March 3, 2012.
The True Story of the Father of Chemotherapy, Inspiration for a Classic Film
Click Here to Read: The True Story of the Father of Chemotherapy, Inspiration for a Classic Film By Roslyn Bernstein on the Webzine website on March 19, 2012.
Night shift
What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy
Click Here to Read: What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy By Susan Dominus in the New York Times on March 10, 2012.
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Lydia Parker, foreground, at home with her sister. She got one of the bruises on her face when an uncontrollable tic caused her to hit herself with her cellphone