Daily Archives: October 16, 2007

Law and Neuroscience Big Project, Mediocre Goals

October 16, 2007
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Law and Neuroscience Big Project, Mediocre Goals

Santa Barbara, California! This is where a new neuroscience and the law project is based. (The photo is only part of a totally gorgeous campus, with its own beach – if you are in school on the east coast, you must transfer immediately.) Good news, bad news: First the good news — wow! Congrats...

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Greed, cont’d., stock option backdating

October 16, 2007
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Greed, cont’d., stock option backdating

Strictly speaking, this isn’t on neuroscience, but it does relate to one of the seven deadly sins, greed, and, since September and October are “Seven-Deadly-Sins Months” ( which I sort of forgot about) here is an interesting article on one of my favorite topics, stock option backdating. I won’t go into all the details,...

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You remember things you’re scared of

October 16, 2007
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You remember things you’re scared of

BOO! (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2007;19:1872-1887.) © 2007 The MIT Press How Negative Emotion Enhances the Visual Specificity of a Memory Elizabeth A. Kensinger1,2, Rachel J. Garoff-Eaton2,3 and Daniel L. Schacter2,3 1 Boston College, 2 Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, 3 Harvard University Reprint requests should be sent to Elizabeth...

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Did your mother hang out with smokers?

October 16, 2007
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Did your mother hang out with smokers?

Yikes, my father was a terrible smoker, back in the day — he used to smoke and just open the vent on the car window. ( Smoke, by Reyes under an attribution license — thank you!) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us   Here’s a report that second-hand smoke exposure in utero can have a lasting effect. Let’s see:...

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