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A few weeks ago, Massachusetts celebrated the opening of its first state-of-the-art treatment facility for mental health concerns in over 60 years. The 320-bed state hospital was opened at a cost of over $300 million, and demonstrates the state’s commitment to the severely mentally ill — and help them better integrate back into their local [...]
Here is what I am reading today: what fair play says about us “People will reject an offer of water, even when they are severely thirsty, if they perceive the offer to be unfair, according to a new study funded by the Wellcome Trust. The findings have important implications for understanding how humans make decisions [...]
Here is what I am reading today: can we make bird safe windows? “A glass inspired by spider’s webs is being used to keep birds from smacking into windows. Birds can’t see glass well, and so many of them die when they hit picture windows. Humans can’t see glass well either, which might explain why [...]
In an eclectic discipline such as Neuroscience, models are built using many different research paradigms. In Chapter 8 of Thomas Kuhn’s ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’, he writes about the response of the scientific communities to crises in science. Kuhn suggested that a paradigm was either successful in which case there would be an opposing [...]
Korbinian Brodmann was a Neurologist who revolutionised the study of the brain by developing a brain ‘map’. This brain map was based on the microscopic properties of the brain. Brodmann dissected the brains of humans and other species and described the unique properties of brain areas under the microscope. Brodmann described 52 areas which could [...]
Here is what I am reading today: predicting how smart you are with brain imaging! “As science has long suspected, overall brain size matters somewhat, accounting for about 6.7 percent of individual variation in intelligence. More recent research has pinpointed the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex, a region just behind the temple, as a critical hub [...]
Here is what I am reading today: education on the web “As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. In the fall, Coursera will [...]
Here is what I am reading today: what makes Parrot’s parrot? “Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds.” the danger of cats to some women “Women infected with the Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) parasite, which is [...]
Here is what I am reading today: why day dreaming is important “As each day passes, the pace of life seems to accelerate — demands on productivity continue ever upward and there is hardly ever a moment when we aren’t, in some way, in touch with our family, friends, or coworkers. While moments for reflection [...]
Here is what I am reading today: the silent gorilla “Concentrating closely on a conversation can leave us ‘deaf’ to other sounds, reveals Dr Polly Dalton from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.” smarter than the average… bear? “Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter than the average bear, but [...]
Here is what we are reading today: can you do fractions? learn them and success awaits! “From factory workers to Wall Street bankers, a reasonable proficiency in math is a crucial requirement for most well-paying jobs in a modern economy. Yet, over the past 30 years, mathematics achievement of U.S. high school students has remained [...]