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Blog Archives

We’ll be back toward the beginning of March because we’re overwhelmed and depressed right now

February 14, 2012

By swivelchair

Ugh. Not much of a Valentine's post.

5 papers to cut through the psychobabble

December 5, 2011

By swivelchair

Via Wikimedia, "This image comes from the Google-hosted LIFE Photo Archive where it is available under the filename e45a47b1b422cca3"

Sometimes a cigar is related to dopamine receptor variants.

We called it: Psychopath brain disconnects and reduced functions

December 1, 2011

By swivelchair

Data, finally.

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

By swivelchair

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?

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

November 18, 2011

By swivelchair

Are drummers biologically predisposed to self-destruct?

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

November 16, 2011

By swivelchair

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.

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

By swivelchair

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.