Supreme Court Decision on the Horizon: Can An Anesthetised Lizard Brain Still Vote?

Neurological support for Adam Smith's 'theories of morality' -- Should Political Leaders Be Required to Demonstrate the Possession of an Active Insular Cortex?

Neurological support for Adam Smith's 'theories of morality'

Breakthrough in quantum communication

Einstein's "Spooky action at a distance:" teleportation of quantum information over great distances equals a quantum internet containing information composed of zeros and ones plus a third state, combined zero-ones. Not only increased size and speed of information transmission back and forth, but the possibility of phenomena heretofore only possible in the imagination. What can you imagine?
Breakthrough in quantum communication

Does Excessive Impulse Control Lead to Rebound Risky Behavior?

Too dog tired to avoid danger: Like humans, dogs engage in riskier behaviors when their self-control is depleted

Too dog tired to avoid danger: Like humans, dogs engage in riskier behaviors when their self-control is depleted

Better than a Star Trek Tricorder? "Bones, I've got this creepy-crawley, funny feeling..."

The ‘living’ micro-robot that could detect diseases in humans

We’re So Exceptional by Michael Ignatieff | The New York Review of Books

We’re So Exceptional by Michael Ignatieff | The New York Review of Books

Do You Believe the Murdochian Shot Fired by the Financial Times in Defense of of Goldman Sachs?

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THE PERILS OF PARTING SHOTS

Greg Smith's diatribe in The New York Times made for one of the most savage public exit interviews of all time.

But the oddest thing about it is that if you strip out the rage, the noise and the baggage, what he actually said about Goldman Sachs was perfectly ordinary. Not only were his accusations ones that all vaguely disaffected workers could make of their former employers, they are charges that most of us, happily employed, could equally level against our current ones.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1616d708-6eb6-11e1-b1b2-00144feab49a.html

Unable to quit smoking? Are you more likely to have schizophrenia?

Why Schizophrenics Cannot Kick Nicotine

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v37/n5/abs/npp2011299a.html?WT.ec_id=NPP-201204

First Study to Demonstrate How Marijuana Interferes with Memory & Thinking

A bowl a day may keep the memories away...

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v37/n5/abs/npp2011262a.html?WT.ec_id=NPP-201204

Feel your feelings, choose your behavior. The brain is an instantaneous probability statement generator! A theory of mind should include the function of generating instantaneous probability statements. A definition of mental health should include the capacity to tolerate the tension of holding the reality of complexity in mind without blind submission to appealing false, simplistic, non-evidence-based, low-probability choices. This does not rule out fantasy and wishful thinking, it SIMPLY permits one to recognize the degree of risk BEFORE choosing behavior. In other words, feel your feelings, choose your behavior! Knowing your moment-to-moment feelings while thinking and talking should be as easy as walking and chewing gum. Listening and feeling without DOING should be easier. Honor your feelings, control your (re)actions. - Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharm

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 150-151 (March 2012)

Reward: High expectations for GABA

Abstract
Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are crucial in regulating reward and motivation. A popular theory holds that dopamine neurons compute reward prediction errors, that is, the difference between an expected outcome and the actual outcome.