Neuromelanin, brain iron homeostasis, and Uncle Fester.
Entries from September 2009
That old substantia nigra’s got me in its spell, that old substantia nigra that you weave so well
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Alzheimer's · Brain anatomy · Dopamine
Friday Dysfunctional Roundup, Neuroeconomics: Winter babies and laughing mothers, melatonin cures all
September 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Vitamin D deficiency may be the culprit for the season of birth effects; melatonin regrows neonate white matter and may be the thing.
Tags: Dysfunctional Roundup · Molecules · Nature vs. nurture · Neuroeconomics · Neuropolitics · Pharmaceuticals · SSRN · White Matter
Blogging C-Span: Senator Olympia Snow, Death Panel – “What’s the Rush? We can take as looonnnnggggg as we like. After all, it’s not like it’s life or death.”
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
“What’s the rush? People dying? Not my problem. I’m not deciding a thing until I get the whole thing totally rewritten according to legislative legalese instead of plain English like we usually do, and then of course I’ll have to take probably a year or so to actually read the legislative legalese, but even then I’ll complain that I don’t understand it, and look! It’s the 2010 elections! I win.”
Tags: Corporate Governance · Corruption · Greed · Lawsuit · Neuro Editorial · Neuro Financial Doc Review · Neuroeconomics · Neuropolitics
Chocolate, Money and Fixing Fragile X: Things Switzerland’s Good At
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments
I’m willing to overlook real or imagined Swiss transgressions if they cure Fragile X.
Tags: Conditions or Diagnosis · Corporate Governance · Fragile X · Genetics and heredity · Molecules · Neuro Financial Doc Review · Pharmaceuticals
Friday Dysfunctional Roundup: Neuro Court Report
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Friday Dysfunctional roundup; dysfunctional court news.
Tags: Dysfunctional Roundup · Lawsuit
Neuroeconomics from SSRN: Chicago School Profs Say Cost-Benefit Analysis Isn’t All That. In Other News, Hell Freezes Over.
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Chicago School of Economics, game theory, “decision science” — how about considering human nature? A radical idea.
Tags: Altruism/moral behavior · Behavior · Neuroeconomics
Senator Blanche Lincoln: Promoter of Obesity and Polluting the Water in the Cherokee Nation?
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Many of the country’s chickens live and work in Arkansas, including its legislators.
Tags: Greed · Lawsuit · Neuro Editorial · Neuroeconomics · Neuropolitics · New York Times · Obesity · conspiracy theory
5-HTTLPR Short Form-ers: Happy Manic Monday
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Parsing the serotonin transport allelic variant functions; with some liver, fava beans and a good Chianti.
Tags: Addiction/Compulsion/Obsession · Behavior · Genetics and heredity · Happiness · Molecules · Nature vs. nurture · Neuroeconomics · Pharmaceuticals · Stress
State of the blog, Year 2
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
State of the Blog, 2 year birthday.
Tags: Science blogging
Poll: Ignore the Republicans?
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Healthcare reform. Will get back to neuroscience later this week.
Tags: Machiavellianism · Neuro Editorial · Neuroeconomics · Neuropolitics · New York Times

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