Month: September 2014
Why you’re terrible at calculating risk
A year in blogging – the most popular posts of the past year
What use are PhD’s? What future do they have? Hellraiser, sadomasochism, distributed and dismembered consciousness, and the brain’s experience of pain Biography Electroconvulsive shock and transcranial stimulation as torture methods in George Orwell’s 1984 Many contrarian thoughts and bullet-points about MOOCs The stressed brain… Impacts on work, business and cognition Reflections on the representations and… Read More
Eating yogurt makes you more friendly
Registration now open for Careers in Neuroscience Symposium Galway 2014
Originally posted on Neuroscience Ireland:
The organising committee for Careers in Neuroscience Symposium Galway 2014 (CNS Galway 2014), would like to invite to you attend our symposium, which will be held on Wednesday 26th November 2014 in NUI Galway. CNS Galway 2014 is a symposium focused on career opportunities in neuroscience which is organised by early-career researchers from the Galway Neuroscience Centre in…
Manipulated By Metaphors
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Dish Staff Figurative language may warp your perception of reality. Britt Peterson explains: Lera Boroditsky, an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of California at San Diego, has written a series of papers on the effect of figurative language, particularly metaphors of space and time, on reasoning. One paper, written…
Chronic immobilization stress occludes in vivo cortical activation in an animal model of panic induced by carbon dioxide inhalation
It has been known since at least the 1920’s that inhaling high amounts of CO2 (20%) induces panic attacks in healthy individuals. There is a remarkable literature deriving from diving and respiratory physiology in submariners available treating this topic. The great father and son team [John Scott Haldane (the physiologist and polymath) and J. B. S. Haldane (the physiologist,… Read More
