Neurological Correlates

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 to [...]

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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, but this [...]

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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 [...]

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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: smoking or hanging [...]

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