Deric Bownds

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• Magic Mind Therapy….. Moving Your Body.

  Gretchen Reynolds interviews Jennifer Heisz about the contents of her new book "Move the Body, Heal the Mind," which details the latest science about exercise... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Losing Sleep with Age.

  Jacobson and Hoyer summarize experiments of Li et al.: Humans spend approximately one-third of their lives asleep, but this is not distributed equally across... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Re-energizing the Aged Brain

  Alderton does a brief summary of work by Brakedal et al.: Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is an important cofactor in numerous metabolic reactions. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Abnormal Hemispheric Interactions of Autism Spectrum Disorder Present in 1st Yea...

  From Rolison et al.: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by atypical connectivity lateralization of functional networks. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Trust is Needed to Run the World, and Crypto Can Make Trusting Easier

  I want to pass on a few clips from a recent screed by Mark Manson in his usual explitive-rich style. I regret that he doesn't make clear the central point that... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Work from Norman-Haignere Et Al. Describes a Populati...

  New work from Norman-Haignere et al. describes a population of cells in our auditory cortex, located between the music and speech-selective areas, that is... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mellow Mice - Why Deep Breathing Can Keep Us Calm

  How we are breathing is usally a good indicator of whether we are calm or aroused. When we become anxious or aroused, usually the best thing we can do is stop... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Difference in Knowledge Production by Global North and South

  Torres et al. do an interesting analysis: Significance Contemporary social sciences aim to be diverse and inclusive, but traces of the historical dominance of... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Exercise Supports the Brain

  From Leiter et al. "Selenium mediates exercise-induced adult neurogenesis and reverses learning deficits induced by hippocampal injury and aging": Highlights... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addicted to Dreaming.

  Dopamine (DA) is usually associated with pleasure and addiction. Now Hasegawa et al. show that release of DA in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), a brain structur... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Manly Art of Self-promotion

  Exley and Kessler suggest that gender wage gaps may have roots in men being more self-promoting than women: We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Genes for Loving Nature.

  From Chang et al.: Nature experiences have been linked to mental and physical health. Despite the importance of understanding what determines individual... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Feeling of Loss in the Abstraction of All Those Beautiful Things into Streams...

  I pass on a single paragraph from A.O.Scott's recent essay "Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time" and suggest you read the whole piece, an... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Listening to Our Bodies Can Make Us More Resilient to Stress

  Jane Brody points to work from Haas et al. suggesting that resilience is more about body awareness than rational thinking. In their experiments subjects who... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• AI-synthesized Faces Are Indistinguishable from Real Faces and More Trustworthy

  A sobering open source aricle from Nightingale and Farid than suggests the impossibility of sorting our the real from the fake. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age

  I want to point to this self-help article by Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic, part of his 'How to Build a Life' series. It's bottom line, derived from data in... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Reconsidering Evidence of Moral Contagion in Online Social Networks

  Burton et al. raise some cautions about recent studies seeming to show that inclusion of emotional terms in social media text messages increases message... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Predictions Help Neurons, and the Brain, Learn

  From the PNAS Journal Club, a review of a publication by Luczak et. al. that suggest that neurons might be able to predict their own future activity, and learn... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Consciousness is Supported by Near-critical Slow Cortical Electrodynamics

  An open source offering from Toker et al. that has a nice summary graphic.: Significance What changes in the brain when we lose consciousness? Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Illusory Faces Are More Likely to Be Perceived as Male Than Female

  Interesting observations from Wardle et al.: Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory faces in objects, a phenomeno... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE