Monthly Archives: November 2011

We’re rs53576 GG, the prosocial oxytocin receptor variant, the one you can tell in 20 seconds. Does that make us a psychopath target?

November 21, 2011
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According to a recent report, people can tell you have a prosocial-form of the oxytocin receptor gene after observing you for 20 seconds. Couldn't you tell?

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Synchronous drumming, like some addiction processes, is associated with brain reward areas.

November 18, 2011
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Are drummers biologically predisposed to self-destruct?

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Dateline, UC Berkeley: Chancellor Birgeneau et al. are a bunch of weasels. (See e mail to UC Berkeley Community)

November 16, 2011
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This e mail is one of the weaseliest memos we've ever seen. It went out to zillions of students at UC Berkeley yesterday. Plus, must-hear occupycal speech by Robert Reich.

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Boo Hoo. We aren’t at Neuroscience 2011 and we wouldn’t qualify for a press pass anyway. But if we were there, here are some abstracts we’d blog about..

November 15, 2011
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Seney ML, Kelly DA, Goldman BD, Šumbera R, Forger NG (2009) Social Structure Predicts Genital Morphology in African Mole-Rats. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7477. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007477.g001, via Wikimedia commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic

Society for Neuroscience establishment shuns us, and so we're left with our nose pressed against the window watching everyone else having a good time.

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News Dispatch, dateline, UC Berkeley: What’s really going on. (Video)

November 14, 2011
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UC Berkeley Psych 101 Fall 2011 student extra credit presentations.

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From TED: Paul Zak: Trust, morality — and oxytocin (video)

November 3, 2011
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TED screenshot Paul Zak

(((hugs)))

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