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• How a Neuroscientist Came Around to Improv Comedy

  

  I love improv comedy because of its authenticity. You might ask me, how can a dramatic form where the performers are literally making everything up as they go... Read more

  The 27 August 2016 by   Neuroamer
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• Autism-like Behavior in Mice is Caused by Dysfunction Outside the Brain,...

  

  Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is now estimated to affect 1 in 68 children in the United States and causes deficits in social communication, a tendency towards... Read more

  The 22 August 2016 by   Neuroamer
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• Enabling Your Teenagers to Be More Independent (Stay-at-home Adults Part 2)

  

  Last time, I looked at adults with Asperger’s syndrome who had trouble leaving the house, and who were more often than not, video-game addicted. Read more

  The 04 August 2016 by   Gbollard
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• Stay-At-Home Adults with Asperger's Syndrome - Part 1 Are There Any Excuses?

  

  It's becoming an increasingly common story, a capable 20+ year old with Asperger's syndrome, living at home with their parents, unwilling to leave the comfort o... Read more

  The 01 August 2016 by   Gbollard
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• Our Self and Our Temporo-parietal Junction

  

  Eddy does a review of the Temporo-parietal junction area of our brain that appears to be central to our sense of self and other: Highlights •Existing... Read more

  The 30 August 2016 by   Deric Bownds
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• Post Party....

  

  My GodIt's been a crazy few days It's only now that I am getting the chance to postAnd make sense of it allOn Thursday night We had our staff partyWe met up at ... Read more

  The 27 August 2016 by   Rubytuesday
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• A Year Ago, I Typed ‘suicide’ into Periscope and Hit Stream — Why Aren’t We Usin...

  

  I wasn’t suicidal, but I was curious what would happen. Surely, the app bought by $10 billion dollar company Twitter had thought of this use case. Read more

  The 08 August 2016 by   Neuroamer
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• The Affordances of Prehistoric Objects

  

  I have a new paper in press at Scientific Reports (Wilson, Zhu, Barham, Stanistreet Bingham, 2016; see also the slides from my EWEP14 talk) and I am so excite... Read more

  The 10 August 2016 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The First (Faux) Shock Felt ’round the World

  

  Contributed by Charity SmithIn July 1961, in a basement in New Haven, Connecticut, newly-minted psychologist Stanley Milgram gave the prod for the first (faux)... Read more

  The 16 August 2016 by   Chp
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• The Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

  

  John Berryman in the Penal Colony “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.”—John Berryman, 1971A year before he committed suicide by... Read more

  The 01 August 2016 by   Dirkh
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