Monthly Archives: January 2009

Friday dysfunctional roundup: Narcissism research update

January 30, 2009
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Narsissism research update, via PUBMED.

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Note to opera singers: Upper spine vertabrae are important to the Flower Duet from Delibes Lakmé

January 28, 2009
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A report on vertebra important for singing opera, and Lakme videos as antimatter to Superbowl Sunday. Opera singing is reportedly highly dependent on being able to tilt the highest vertebra (the atlas and C4) at a large angle to open the airways.  Gillian Johnson, Margot Skinner, “The demands of professional opera singing on cranio-cervical posture,” Eur...

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White Matter Month, Cont’d: Ammunition for suing your verbal abuser

January 27, 2009
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White Matter Month, Cont’d: Ammunition for suing your verbal abuser

White matter month continues with a study of white matter damage from verbal abuse. Attorneys and advocates start your engines: here’s a study correlating childhood verbal abuse with compromised white matter integrity. : Three WM tract regions had significantly reduced FA: 1) arcuate fasciculus in left superior temporal gyrus, 2) cingulum bundle by the...

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Ceci n’est pas un neurone. C’est un zombie-inducing experience.

January 26, 2009
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Ceci n’est pas un neurone. C’est un zombie-inducing experience.

Any job requiring sitting behind a microscope getting data manually from individual cells is likely to cause massive changes in the experimenter's neurons.

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Biology and Psychopathy 101 from Det angår oss alla

January 25, 2009
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Eva Christine from It Affects Us All (Det angår oss alla) sends over a link to a review paper by Kent A. Kiehl, “A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction,” Psychiatric Research 142: 107-128 (June 2006). The author, Dr. Kiehl, was recently profiled in the New Yorker, “A Reporter at...

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Would you clean your glasses on someone else’s clothes without their permission? Video: Bush 43 when he was Gov on Letterman

January 25, 2009
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White collar psychopath talk in the Sunday New York Times

January 25, 2009
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White collar psychopath talk in the Sunday New York Times

Mainstream media reports on high-rent psychopathy (or sociopathy).

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Friday dysfunctional roundup: Sleepwalking research

January 23, 2009
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Friday dysfunctional roundup: Sleepwalking research

Lisa Kline’s Husband Dies In Tragic Fall “Celeb designer Lisa Kline’s husband died in a freak accident early this morning — and sources say it may have been due to a sleepwalking incident. . . .” Sleepwalking reflects an impairment in the normal mechanisms of arousal from sleep in which motor behaviors are activated...

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Neurodiversity editorial: Do we have to accept sociopaths?

January 22, 2009
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Neurodiversity editorial: Do we have to accept sociopaths?

Yay for neurodiversity.  History-making artists, scientists, politicians – were any neurotypical? Probably not really. But then who is? Up with neurodiversity. Yet, I’m a huge hypocrite: I just can’t get with the whole sociopaths-are-just-another-neuro-diverse-population gig. On the one hand, it’s true: sociopathy is organic. Just like kidney stones. On the whole, kidney stones are...

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Encephalon # 62 Blog Carnival Link

January 19, 2009
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Encephalon #6 via Sandy G. at The Mouse Trap – Nice Job SG! Be sure to check it out!

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