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echoblog: Educational resources for cognitive science

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

pointer to: Al Fin’s recent post chock full of great links to educational videos.  Incredible wealth of expertise just a few clicks away.  Thanks Al Fin!!

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Recalling finch beaks using variable decision criteria to learn from whence we came

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia In his book, The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner describes the great diversity of finches on the Galapagos Islands – so much diversity – that Darwin himself initially thought the finch variants to be completely different birds (wrens, mockingbirds, blackbirds and “gross-bills”).  It turns out that one of the pivotal events [...]

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Insights on emotional attachment found in pain gene (OPRM1) – poets everywhere say, “I told you so”

Posted in OPRM1, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Image via Wikipedia If you slam your hand in the car door and experience physical pain, medical science can offer you a “pain killer!“.  Certainly morphine (via its activation of the mu opioid receptor (OPRM1)) will make you feel a whole lot better.  However, if your boyfriend or girlfriend breaks up with you and you [...]

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Video library of mental illness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia pointer to symptommedia.org – fantastic video resource of specific symptoms of mental illness. “The intention of these clips are to be used in the classroom setting as visual compliments to the written description of symptoms for psychological phenomena found in the DSM handbook.”

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Look deeply into my eyes and let me see your genes

Posted in OTR, OXTR, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

*** PODCAST accompanies this post *** Nowadays, it seems that genomics is spreading beyond the rarefied realm of science and academia into the general, consumer-based popular culture.  Quelle surprise!?  Yes, the era of the personal genome is close at hand, even as present technology  provides – directly to the general consumer public – a  genome-wide [...]

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Which coisogenic mouse is more like Stuart Little?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Image via Wikipedia ** podcast interview accompanies this post ** Lab mice have it pretty good I suppose.  Chow, water and mating ad libitum, fresh bedding, no predators.  Back in grad school, I usually handled my little mouse subjects gently so as not to frighten them and always followed the guidelines for humane treatment.  At [...]

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Building and maintaining synapses

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Phrenological thinking, a popular pseudoscientific practice in the 1800′s suggested that the structure of the head and underlying brain held the clues to understanding human behavior.  Today, amidst the ongoing convergence of developmental science, molecular & biochemical science and systems-dynamical science (to name just a few), there is – of course – no single or [...]

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Sharpening the cognitive-genetic scalpel

Posted in Angular gyrus, Middle frontal gyrus, Supramarginal gyrus, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by bethd821 via Flickr Whether you are a carpenter, plumber, mechanic, electrician, surgeon or chef, your livelihood depends on a set of sturdy, reliable, well-honed, precision tools.  Similarly, neuroscientists depend on their electrodes, brain scanners, microscopes and more recently their genome sequencers.  This is because they are not just trying to dissect the brain [...]

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Catecholaminergic genes may help my son hear things more clearly

Posted in ADRA2A, Frontal cortex, Noradrenaline, Parietal cortex, TH, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This year, my 5 year-old son and I have passed many afternoons sitting on the living room rug learning to read.  While he ever so gradually learns to decode words, eg. “C-A-T”  sound by sound, letter by letter – I can’t help but marvel at the human brain and wonder what is going on inside.  [...]

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echoblog: Science and art interweave at Salk Institute Conference

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr pointer to: Amazing conference exploring Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics. No genetics talks (this time ’round) but plenty of brain science pertaining to art and human nature.

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echoblog: Personality patternizer

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

With more and more genes being directly associated with personality or as moderators of correlations between personality and brain structure/function (here, here, here, here) it was fun to try out the latest online “big-5 personality profiler“. 10 mins of self-reflective fun.  My profile displayed at left.

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