Neuroscience
Our pick of the week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links:
Psychology: Heaven and Hell
This December in London we're putting on a little party to celebrate 10 years of the Research Digest blog. Come join us!
It Pays to Be Nice
… even when other people are screwing you over.
Scientists Just Published Ambitious New Guidelines for Conducting Better Research
Jesse Singal reports on the recommendations produced by University of Virginia psychologist Bryan Nosek and others.
#neurobusiness2015
A conference held in Manchester this week promised to bring together the worlds of neuroscience and business. As delegates began tweeting soundbites full of neurobunk, skeptics had a field day with the conference hashtag.
Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness
A group of neuroscience heavy-weights discuss a theory of consciousness that sees a key role for cell membranes.
I Once Tried to Cheat Sleep, and For a Year I Succeeded
For one year, Akshat Rathi managed to keep up the Everyman Sleep Schedule: 3.5 hours at night and 3 x 20-min naps in the day.
Please, Corporations, Experiment on Us
A psychologist and ethicist argue that it's better to test out what works in our best interests, rather than powerful people and corporations relying on their gut instincts.
Clinical Psychologists Launch Guidelines on Hoarding
Information and recommendations from the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology.
What's Happening in Your Brain When You Can't Stay Awake?
Over at Science of Us, I looked at a brain scan study of the moment the battle to stay awake is lost.
The Hard Science of Oxytocin
It's been dubbed the "cuddle hormone" because of its role in love and bonding, but new findings show this is a gross oversimplification. Helen Shen reports for Nature.
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Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Robert De Niro Defends Anti-Vax Nonsense "Let's just find out the truth". No, Mr. De Niro, we already know the truth about vaccines. Wellbeing Issues Facing Psychological...
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Five-point Plan to Help Paris Survivors Recover From Attacks New Scientist speaks to UCL psychologist Chris Brewin. The Problem With the Argument That People ‘Ignored’...
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of the week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Out of this world A special feature from The Psychologist magazine on aliens and space travel, including an interview with Douglas Vakoch, clinical psychologist and Director...
- Link Feast
Our 10 favourite psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so: People's drawings of their own brains. Last week's issue of Narratively was a psychology special, including a comic look at a week on a psych ward and how an amateur...
- Christof Koch Now
["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news] Ginger Campbell over at the Brain Science Podcast recently interviewed Christof Koch. It’s a fascinating discussion -- almost a lecture by Koch -- on the nature of consciousness. Koch kept things...
Neuroscience
Link feast
Psychology: Heaven and Hell
This December in London we're putting on a little party to celebrate 10 years of the Research Digest blog. Come join us!
It Pays to Be Nice
… even when other people are screwing you over.
Scientists Just Published Ambitious New Guidelines for Conducting Better Research
Jesse Singal reports on the recommendations produced by University of Virginia psychologist Bryan Nosek and others.
#neurobusiness2015
A conference held in Manchester this week promised to bring together the worlds of neuroscience and business. As delegates began tweeting soundbites full of neurobunk, skeptics had a field day with the conference hashtag.
Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness
A group of neuroscience heavy-weights discuss a theory of consciousness that sees a key role for cell membranes.
I Once Tried to Cheat Sleep, and For a Year I Succeeded
For one year, Akshat Rathi managed to keep up the Everyman Sleep Schedule: 3.5 hours at night and 3 x 20-min naps in the day.
Please, Corporations, Experiment on Us
A psychologist and ethicist argue that it's better to test out what works in our best interests, rather than powerful people and corporations relying on their gut instincts.
Clinical Psychologists Launch Guidelines on Hoarding
Information and recommendations from the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology.
What's Happening in Your Brain When You Can't Stay Awake?
Over at Science of Us, I looked at a brain scan study of the moment the battle to stay awake is lost.
The Hard Science of Oxytocin
It's been dubbed the "cuddle hormone" because of its role in love and bonding, but new findings show this is a gross oversimplification. Helen Shen reports for Nature.
_________________________________
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Robert De Niro Defends Anti-Vax Nonsense "Let's just find out the truth". No, Mr. De Niro, we already know the truth about vaccines. Wellbeing Issues Facing Psychological...
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Five-point Plan to Help Paris Survivors Recover From Attacks New Scientist speaks to UCL psychologist Chris Brewin. The Problem With the Argument That People ‘Ignored’...
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of the week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Out of this world A special feature from The Psychologist magazine on aliens and space travel, including an interview with Douglas Vakoch, clinical psychologist and Director...
- Link Feast
Our 10 favourite psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so: People's drawings of their own brains. Last week's issue of Narratively was a psychology special, including a comic look at a week on a psych ward and how an amateur...
- Christof Koch Now
["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news] Ginger Campbell over at the Brain Science Podcast recently interviewed Christof Koch. It’s a fascinating discussion -- almost a lecture by Koch -- on the nature of consciousness. Koch kept things...