Neurological Correlates

New on the blogroll is  Therapeutic Landscapes Database Blog
Who knew this was an area of study?
Two recent posts were of interest:

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Via Alaska Dispatch (”How We Live on the Last Frontier“)

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People with political yard signage are more likely to vote than those who have only, say, a garden gnome, and now research shows that this goes for football team crap-o-la spread over the front yard.
Expressiveness reflects group identification/affiliation and signals trustworthiness and also reflects the individual’s desire to ‘cheer’ or ‘boo’ favored or unfavored candidates. [...]

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From Government Executive the past few weeks:

Interior officials probed about illicit sex, gifts 09/10/08 Alleged transgressions involve 13 employees in Denver and Washington.
Audit: FEMA wasted millions on no-bid contracts 09/10/08 Report finds that the agency did not always properly review the invoices submitted.
House Democrats slam Bush administration for failure to comply with 9/11 act [...]

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Let’s say you leave your DNA at the scene of a crime. The prosecutor puts up the  expert on DNA analysis: it’s a one in a bazillion chance that it wasn’t you that did the crime.
Should the expert be disqualified (and busted down to being a fact witness)  for failing to consider that, given the [...]

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Has it been a year?
Maybe I should explain that I unintentionally chose the 9/11 date - but it’s here, and perhaps it’s a small symbol of defiance against those who are evil.
So, thanks for stopping by, and see you in Neurological Correlates, Year 2.

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Schizophrenia progressively worsens.  According to a new paper, in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, the more cognitive impairment, the less white matter volume.  All patients had about the same amount of gray matter (which was less than controls).  The “near normal” patients had the highest white matter volumes; the most affected had the lowest white matter volumes. 
White [...]

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Google’s biggest threat?
Google is planning offshore data centers.  Datacenters in international waters are outside political boundaries. That means no jurisdiction by any sovereign authority except by international treaty. (Pirates notwithstanding).   
We are entering an era of information without borders. As a technical matter, combined with Google transoceanic dark fiber, Google airwaves, satellites, white spaces and everything else, there [...]

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This post is about depression and genetics — fragile x premutation is statistically associated with depression.

That’s news.
I keep an eye on Fragile X research because there seems to be an “epigenetic” component. (Molecular wonks: I’m using the term “epigenetic” to basically mean non-Mendellian — spontaneous mutations of any sort , rather than just the methylation [...]

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Epigenetics - the long arm reaches out for generations.

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Yet another review of a book I haven’t read. From excerpts and other reviews, it looks great  - mostly because it’s written in a way that takes ordinary observations about human behavior and does the 360º.
This book, “Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique,” examines what makes humans different [...]

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