Neurological Correlates

Narsissism research update, via PUBMED.

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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 Spine J. [...]

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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.
[Results]: Three WM tract regions had significantly reduced FA: 1) arcuate fasciculus in left superior temporal gyrus, 2) cingulum bundle by the posterior tail of [...]

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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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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 [...]

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

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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 without full consciousness. [...]

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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 seen an illness; [...]

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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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