Neuroamer

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I'm a neuroscience researcher and I love to blog: neuroamer.wordpress.com - To learn more about my interests, follow me on twitter @Neuroamer.

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Neuroamer http://neuroamer.wordpress.com/
A researcher's blog about neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology.

Genoeconomics – Can Genetic Variation Predict Economic Decisions?

First, experimental economists and psychologists like nobel laureates Vernon L. Smith and Daniel Kahneman taught us that we aren’t economically rational–we’re... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE
Using Machine Learning, Harvard Researchers Create a Web-based Tool to Diagnose...

Original full text of the study available from Translational Psychiatry here. Conventionally, children are diagnosed using Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE
New Sequencing Study Links Autism to FMRP, the Gene Disrupted in Fragile X...

Scientists reported a new connection between autism and fragile x syndrome in the latest issue of neuron. They sequenced the exomes–the parts of DNA that code... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE
Mirror Touch Synesthesia and the Genetics of Synesthesia

Imagine cold fingers creeping up someone’s calf. Now imagine that whenever you saw someone else being touched, you would feel the sensation on your own body.... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

Genoeconomics – Can Genetic Variation Predict Economic Decisions?