Neurological Correlates

Google news search, Obama + empathy and (scroll down) Obama + narcissist

“Rien d’impossible”, vintage French engraving
policy with punch
Chicago Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago
That left the final, and most important, task of the week to Obama: selling voters on his vision, convincing them of his empathy and persuading doubters he …

Everybody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
TIME - [...]

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You could view congenital body asymmetry as an artifact of mid-line gestational development.

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Obama/Biden wins in ‘08. And how do I know this?
Because I ran into a 17 year old family friend at the DMV today, who was correcting the birthday on his drivers’ license  – because he’ll be 18 just before November 2 and he wants to vote.

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This post is, of course, about Mr. Gerhartstreiter (previously discussed here, and here ): Mr. Gerhartstreiter is not particularly interesting, but predicting his future actions based on his (presumed) brain wiring is becoming more feasible.

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[08.22.08 - Updated, links corrected)
Google trends is a great way to waste time. Here are  some results (click image to go to Google Trends ):
Depression v. bipolar;
Love vs. sex;
Narcissist vs. sociopath vs. psychopath;
Obama vs. Mccain vs. Paris Hilton

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Sadly, Mr. Meyer remarked that he does not wish to waste Ms. Aniston’s time, but if it is any consolation to Ms. Aniston (assuming she is in need of consoling), it may be that Mr. Meyer has the dopamine receptor 4 with a seven repeat allele. That would render him almost physiologically incapable of not seeking novelty, regardless of Ms. Aniston’s attributes.

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This post is about trait anger and reactive aggression in view of intentionality bias and negative attributional bias. Or, why hotheads attack innocent people and what to do about it.

Au châteaux Swivelchair, I am someone is known to get people to put away their stuff by setting said stuff directly in the owner’s walking path.  [...]

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Here are Neurological Correlates’ earlier posts under the category “Epigenetics”, and some new information relating to epigenetic changes correlating with late on-set Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Google news search using terms “child custody”
Man accused of killing wife loses child’s custody
Times of India, India - Aug 12, 2008
NEW DELHI: A father is the natural guardian of his child, so goes the law. But, when a father is accused of murdering his wife over dowry, can he still have …
Lawyer: woman in pastor’s death gets [...]

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Figure 2. Geographic Distribution of Two Measures of Genetic Diversity across the European Population
(A and B) Isoline map (A) of Europe based on the mean observed heterozygosity in each of 23 European subpopulations with (B) corresponding spatial autocorrelogram.
(C and D) Isoline map (C) of Europe based on the mean observed linkage disequilibrium based on HR2 in [...]

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