Neurological Correlates

So, what do you find when you put a Sumo wrestler in the MRI and get an image, slice by slice, of everything inside them? That and a recipe for a Sumo lunch below.

Sumo in Hawaii by hellochris on Flickr : “. . .22 year old Mongolian rikishi Hakuho as [...]

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Raindrops on Roses by leobaby 727 on Flickr
Some selected posts from others in Research Blogging that I found of particular interest (thank you fellow bloggers):

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In honor of the Oscars®, here is a neuro-movie review about a movie that came out in 2006 — Wordplay (here’s the link to the official site, and the link to the Rotten Tomatoes site). (Yes, it was out in 2006, so I’m a year late. ) This post will ultimately be about hemispheric [...]

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“The Unknown Reviewer” by Swivelchair (work modified from Brymo ’s “Day 57 Brown Baggin It“via Flickr (under attribution license))

Kennedy, D. (2008). Confidential Review–or Not?. Science, 319(5866), 1009-1009. DOI: 10.1126/science.1156250
What are “peer-reviewers” afraid of?
“Peer-review” is the process by which scientific research is legitimized — the work is vetted by others in the industry [...]

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In the Western world, we love to anthropomorphize our dogs. There was a New Yorker cartoon, at the dawn of the internet age, where a dog was clicking away at a keyboard, remarking to another little dog, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” As they say in Washington, if you want a friend, [...]

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“Transposable Elements” by Swivelchair, all rights (if any) totally waived. This work was inspired by the work of Dr. Barbara McClintock.

Here’s today’s research paper:Zhao, X., Leotta, A., Kustanovich, V., Lajonchere, C., Geschwind, D.H., Law, K., Law, P., Qiu, S., Lord, C., Sebat, J., Ye, K., Wigler, M. (2007). A unified genetic theory for sporadic and [...]

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In a previous post about white collar crime, somehow the”DOI’s” got mixed up on Research Blogging and the following study was cited instead:
MILLER, G., TYBUR, J., JORDAN, B. (2007). Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?☆☆. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28(6), 375-381. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.06.002
I think this is the [...]

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Professor Henry Higgins:
Noted Wonderer of “Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?”Whereas the More Economically Efficient Question Would Be “Why Can’t A Man Be More Like A Woman?”

Selmi, M.L. (2008). The Work-Family Conflict: An Essay on Employers, Men and Responsibility. University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 1(1), 1-24.
SSRN suggested citation: Selmi, [...]

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Jose Canseco, the noted baseball player and author of “Juiced“, was busy as a bee pollinating major league baseball with knowledge and practices for steroid and growth hormone use. (Here’s the link on Docuticker). This strikes me as similar to the stock option backdating scenario — interlocking boards of directors and using the [...]

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NYT Sunday Magazine,  “Taking Play Seriously”

 
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: February 17, 2008
What can science tell us about why kids run and jump?

 
Yet another behavioral-neuroscience-psychology topic smack on the cover of NYT Sunday Magazine. I guess this topic must be a best seller. (If they only knew that Parle a mà main way outsells neuroscience.)
The [...]

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Wired ran a news report about a Science paper showing how mitochondria are culprits in making heart cells dysfunction. I wondered about brain cells. After all, brain cells need energy too. What about brain cell mitochondria?
Now, the Wired report caught my eye because it was about heart cells, and I generally follow cardiac [...]

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Fatal Bazooka feat Yelle - Parle à ma main
Good news: YouTube has the English translation now posted on the video page –Here are two English translations for Parle a ma main lyrics — thank you Fatal Bazooka and Mark (scroll down, slightly different). (Long post, English lyrics from both after the jump) for sending [...]

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Here’s three papers (full citations and links, scroll down), two from Finland and one from Russia. These deal with being mean and drinking. And serotonin.
People have alcohol to loosen up, to remove inhibitions, to relax. But what about people who pick fights when they’re drunk? Are they tightly wound and naturally hostile — an [...]

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Research Blogging
 
Neurological Correlates is now approved to use the “Research Blogging” logo for posts discussing peer-reviewed research. These posts will also show up on the Research Blogging web site.
 
From the Research Blogging “about me” page:
 
Research Blogging is a community-run non-profit organization. The organization was created by bloggers for bloggers, with the input [...]

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Hartman, K.E., “Supermax Prisons in the Consciousness of Prisoners,” The Prison Journal 88: 169-176 (2008) DOI: 10.1177/0032885507311001
The US prison system has over 7,000,000 prisoners participants, with about 2MM incarcerated at any given time. [thank you "jak-king" (what a nom-de-internet -- is that "car jak king"?) for the correction 02.14.08][New 03.01.08: about 1 in 100 people [...]

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I lurve Social Science Research Network, and this is why: a paper proposing doing away with many laws, in favor of a “How’s My Driving?” system for everyone and everything.
Strahilevitz, Lior, “‘How’s My Driving?’ for Everyone (and Everything?)” . NYU Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 1699, November 2006 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=899144
Full abstract after the [...]

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I just got done watching all 77 minutes of Dr. Zimbardo’s lecture about why good people do evil things — which he has written about in a book called, “The Lucifer Effect.” I haven’t read the book, so this brief review is only about the lecture.
Here’s a clip from the daily show:

Dr. Zimbardo, comparing the [...]

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Everyone knows someone whose “default” emotion is anger. They are like a one-trick pony, they are sad, so they express anger. They are scared, so they act angry. They are frustrated, so they are angry. When in children, it is painful to watch. When in adults, it is scary.

World’s Most Dysfunctional Inspirational Poster [...]

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“Dopamine Futures” original art by Swivelchair
(all rights, if any totally waived, copy it all you want).
If you compare a screen shot of on-line gambling with a screen shot of on-line stock trading, they look very similar. That is probably because humans are hard wired for rewards — if you hunt and are successful, [...]

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