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1. Prehistoric-porn 2. Psychopathy goes more mainstream 3. Obesity toldjaso

May 16, 2012
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What's with this phallic Ikea chair

Prehistoric sex, psychopaths and obesity roundups of what caught our eye for the last few weeks.

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Decisions we’ve had to make in moving and other things we’re thinking about

April 24, 2012
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Landscape - Disaster - Photo - San_Francisco in ruins (click to enlarge)

Moving this week from So Cal to No Cal., be back some time in May.

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Czech algo trader launches anti-sociopath political activism: Corruption tourism. Brilliant.

April 7, 2012
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Czech Republic -

Brilliant idea: Corruption tourism.

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Arsenic in the chickens, revisited

April 6, 2012
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Trader Joe's Meatless Meatballs Recommendation - Copy

Hurry up with the hydroponics for meat already.

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Narcissism, envy and stress: the eternal golden braid*

April 3, 2012
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salieri

Hiding your envy is stressful.

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Neuro-Movie Review: The Hunger Games and fate of the psychopath

March 26, 2012
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Katniss Everdeen (photo credit: Murray Close, via http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com/?section=photos&item=3

May the odds be forever in your favor.

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The biology of obesity is the new black

March 23, 2012
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Design - Apparel - Black pyjamas - color woodblock

Obesity biology goes with everything.

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Jury consultants take note: Oxytocin increases empathy toward the victim, but not desire to punish the perp

March 10, 2012
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Fortune

Oxytocin up the nose again.

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In cold blood: Case study of 14 year old boy who lied about being suicidal, burned down his church, and hit his father on the head with a crescent wrench indicates it’s nature, not nurture

March 6, 2012
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Boes AD, Grafft AH, Joshi C, Chuang NA, Nopoulos P, Anderson SW. Behavioral effects of congenital ventromedial prefrontal cortex malformation. BMC Neurol. 2011 Dec 2;11:151. PubMed PMID: 22136635; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3265436.

His father said the most concerning aspect of the episode was that he did it "in cold blood, without any emotion."

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Round up of psychopaths on wall street news (our view: duh, we’ve been harping about this for almost 5 years now))

March 5, 2012
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newspaper

Roundup of psychopath news.

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Unhealthy brains have potted plant defenses

March 4, 2012
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Snake_plant

Polluting your body does make you a potted plant.

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Personalized medicine for the paranoid: Lab on a keychain do-dads

March 2, 2012
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Polkakeychain

DNA don't lie.

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We’ll be back toward the beginning of March because we’re overwhelmed and depressed right now

February 14, 2012
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Medical - Death - Aphorism - Sui Vindex

Ugh. Not much of a Valentine's post.

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5 papers to cut through the psychobabble

December 5, 2011
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Via Wikimedia, "This image comes from the Google-hosted LIFE Photo Archive where it is available under the filename e45a47b1b422cca3"

Sometimes a cigar is related to dopamine receptor variants.

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We called it: Psychopath brain disconnects and reduced functions

December 1, 2011
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Psychopath brain image

Data, finally.

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We’re rs53576 GG, the prosocial oxytocin receptor variant, the one you can tell in 20 seconds. Does that make us a psychopath target?

November 21, 2011
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Hello my name is rs53576 GG

According to a recent report, people can tell you have a prosocial-form of the oxytocin receptor gene after observing you for 20 seconds. Couldn't you tell?

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Synchronous drumming, like some addiction processes, is associated with brain reward areas.

November 18, 2011
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spinal-tap

Are drummers biologically predisposed to self-destruct?

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Dateline, UC Berkeley: Chancellor Birgeneau et al. are a bunch of weasels. (See e mail to UC Berkeley Community)

November 16, 2011
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University-of-California-Berkeley-logo

This e mail is one of the weaseliest memos we've ever seen. It went out to zillions of students at UC Berkeley yesterday. Plus, must-hear occupycal speech by Robert...

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Boo Hoo. We aren’t at Neuroscience 2011 and we wouldn’t qualify for a press pass anyway. But if we were there, here are some abstracts we’d blog about..

November 15, 2011
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Seney ML, Kelly DA, Goldman BD, Šumbera R, Forger NG (2009) Social Structure Predicts Genital Morphology in African Mole-Rats. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7477. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007477.g001, via Wikimedia commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic

Society for Neuroscience establishment shuns us, and so we're left with our nose pressed against the window watching everyone else having a good time.

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News Dispatch, dateline, UC Berkeley: What’s really going on. (Video)

November 14, 2011
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Psych101 Extra Credit Screen Shot

UC Berkeley Psych 101 Fall 2011 student extra credit presentations.

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From TED: Paul Zak: Trust, morality — and oxytocin (video)

November 3, 2011
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TED screenshot Paul Zak

(((hugs)))

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OWOWOWOWOW

October 31, 2011
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OWOWOW

Weird: Our first ARPANET communique way back when was from someone who wrote, "OWOWOWOWOW."

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