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November 06, 2012

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1:57 PM | I say “Pharma”, you say?… Philanthropist?

Generosity is a rare quality in business, and it’s certainly not the first word that springs to mind when thinking about the drugs industry. Big Pharma is not widely known for its Big Heartedness. So, last January, when I heard about AstraZeneca’s plans to give away valuable data on several of its patented compounds, I was curious about what exactly had been slipped into the tea up at AZ HQ. Had CEO David Brennan accidentally mistaken an exciting new schizophrenia... Read more

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1:38 AM | A SuperFastA+CrashCourse on fMRI Preprocessing and Modeling the...

A SuperFastA+CrashCourse on fMRI Preprocessing and Modeling the Psydoc Not Necessarily Recommended for Immediate Success Method Go! Set path, display image, one at a time. So you have your T1 (structural scans @ high resolution), Run 1 (functional scans) and Run 2, reorient to AC, Oh did you even create an analysis folder? Nope. Do that, silly. Now groan and start over. Ok, save the Run 1 to All. Jot down the inverse of the location coordinates. Whitebar it. Manually find the AC - enjoy this […]

November 05, 2012

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11:24 PM | I’m biznassing to Niagara Falls tomorrow you guys. So I...

I’m biznassing to Niagara Falls tomorrow you guys. So I voted today.

November 04, 2012

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12:02 AM | Recovering from server failure and bad backups: the Internet remembers

Two days ago I received several emails notifying me that my sites were all down. Soon thereafter my VPS hosting provider emailed me to say my server, and numerous others, had all been lost, and they had no backups. Recovering from server failure and bad backups: the Internet remembers from in propria persona © 2005 - 2012 by Kristopher Nelson. Want to republish? Get permission. Want to quote? That's fair use.

November 02, 2012

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7:43 PM | invisiblestories: Letter written by Emma Hauck to her husband...

invisiblestories: Letter written by Emma Hauck to her husband while in a psychiatric hospital. The words sweetheart come (‘Herzensschatzi komm’), are written over and over filling the surface of the paper (c. 1909) (via anticipatedstranger)

November 01, 2012

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11:47 PM | "Psychopaths don’t think, should I do this or shouldn’t I do this? They just go ahead and do stuff."

“Psychopaths don’t think, should I do this or shouldn’t I do this? They just go ahead and do...

October 31, 2012

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11:12 PM | “The Pros to Being a Psychopath” When most of us...

“The Pros to Being a Psychopath” When most of us hear the word “psychopath,” we imagine Hannibal Lecter. Kevin Dutton would prefer that we think of brain surgeons, CEOs and Buddhist monks.(…) When psychologists talk about psychopaths, what we’re referring to are people who have a distinct set of personality characteristics, which include things like ruthlessness, fearlessness, mental toughness, charm, persuasiveness and a lack of conscience and empathy. Imagine that you tick the […]

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9:29 PM | Brain Can't Empathize And Analyze At Same Time, New Study

Brain Can't Empathize And Analyze At Same Time, New Study : “Before this study, from previous...

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4:14 AM | For science!

Yes. For science!!! Hi ;) you may remember me from such tumblr posts as “really,...

October 30, 2012

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3:13 AM | So long, power.

So long, power.

October 29, 2012

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9:25 PM | Leon Somov - No Batteries No Toys Img: Jacques-Andre...

Leon Somov - No Batteries No Toys Img: Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Untitled (1930)

October 27, 2012

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12:46 AM | if you’re too tired to put the weights back on the rack in...

if you’re too tired to put the weights back on the rack in my gym, it means you kicked ass on power snatch to OHS, it’s Miller time and you’re gonna go watch Trading Places.

October 26, 2012

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11:29 PM | Neurosurgeon Shelley Chou, M.D. (right), tested a hand-built...

Neurosurgeon Shelley Chou, M.D. (right), tested a hand-built brain scanning device in 1952. [via]

October 25, 2012

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4:08 AM | “Sexual Sadism: Avoiding Its Misuse in Sexually Violent...

“Sexual Sadism: Avoiding Its Misuse in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), Task Force has recently rejected the proposal to include coercive paraphilia as an official diagnosis, reaffirming that rape is a crime and not a mental disorder. [wow.rly] We hope this will discourage what has been the inappropriate practice of giving rapists the made-up diagnosis of paraphilia, NOS, nonconsent, to facilitate their […]

October 24, 2012

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10:12 PM | Experiment Status: 16 props collected 20 conditions...

Experiment Status: 16 props collected 20 conditions planned ready to film wait remain enthusiastically confident while waiting waiting entertain doubt wait experience disdain for lush expectations back to waiting

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1:15 PM | Electronic cigarettes: smoke without fire?

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain For my first blog post here on SciLogs, I thought I’d choose a subject that we can all agree on. Smoking. It’s bad, right? I mean, really bad. Obviously. But are there any exceptions? Are all cigarettes really unequivocally, indisputably, “disgusting-habit-breath-stinks-probably-going-to-kill-you” bad, or are some just […]

October 23, 2012

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October 21, 2012

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5:40 PM | “Interviews with interrogators” Vaughan Bell over at...

“Interviews with interrogators” Vaughan Bell over at Mind Hacks posted a bunch of fantastic links of interviews with interrogators (CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps) that were used for the book Brainwash by Dominic Streatfeild. If you are familiar with the Science of the KGB interviews, then this will be up your alley.

October 20, 2012

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8:14 PM | "Healthy people sometimes report experiences and beliefs that are strikingly similar to the symptoms..."

“Healthy people sometimes report experiences and beliefs that are strikingly similar to the...

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8:04 PM | Delusions.

Delusions.

October 18, 2012

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4:49 AM | Research props. Ready to film ….any day now ….

Research props. Ready to film ….any day now ….

October 16, 2012

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1:17 AM | "Gimme 10 minutes and a drink. I’ll figure this shit out."

“Gimme 10 minutes and a drink. I’ll figure this shit out.” - Me, reading the most...

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12:45 AM | “Neurobiological underpinnings of shame and guilt: A pilot...

“Neurobiological underpinnings of shame and guilt: A pilot fMRI study” Turns out guilt and shame share some circuitry and functional areas. German researchers suggest (as Japanese researchers have said) that the frontal & temporal lobe is involved in shame and guilt emotional processing. Fine. What’s interesting is there is a gender difference. In the shame condition, both sexes showed activation in frontal and temporal regions. But for guilt women showed only temporal activation (known […]

October 15, 2012

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7:20 PM | "Yes and no."

“Yes and no.” - Me, responding to Will Neuroscience Radically Transform the Legal...

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7:02 PM | Scientists find brain differences in pedophiles

Scientists find brain differences in pedophiles: Aside from functional differences in the brain...

October 13, 2012

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5:13 AM | Snatchsquat watch 20-12 (not pict’d, sweet uncle squat...

Snatchsquat watch 20-12 (not pict’d, sweet uncle squat rack).

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12:47 AM | Restraint chains used to control mentally ill patients, and...

Restraint chains used to control mentally ill patients, and documentation regarding the purchase of such restraints in 1751 and 1752. Housed in Pennsylvania Hospital’s Historic Collection [via]

October 12, 2012

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4:10 PM | "Special education law relies on certain assumptions regarding brain development, function, and..."

“Special education law relies on certain assumptions regarding brain development, function,...

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4:38 AM | Thinking about task design: my current research prop.

Thinking about task design: my current research prop.

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4:17 AM | The Psychopaths of Everyday Life: An Integrative Study of...

The Psychopaths of Everyday Life: An Integrative Study of Neuropsychological and Neurobiological Factors in a Sample of Undergraduate Males While considerable research suggests that incarcerated psychopaths have neurobiological and neuropsychological impairments that influence their social-emotional processing and behavior, there is little research on non-incarcerated young adults with high levels of psychopathic traits (i.e., subclinical psychopaths). (…) Statistical analyses revealed that […]