Neuroscience
From today's New York Times:
What’s New? Exuberance for Novelty Has Benefits
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: February 13, 2012
"Novelty-seeking, a personality trait long associated with trouble, turns out to be one of the crucial predictors of emotional and physical well-being."
Read the full article
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Neuroscience
Novelty Seeking
From today's New York Times:
What’s New? Exuberance for Novelty Has Benefits
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: February 13, 2012
"Novelty-seeking, a personality trait long associated with trouble, turns out to be one of the crucial predictors of emotional and physical well-being."
Read the full article
- A Concise Critique Of The Methods Used In The Personality Genetics Paper
The previous post, Bad News for the Genetics of Personality, discussed a genome-wide association study that searched for common genetic variants associated with personality ratings from Cloninger's temperament scales. None were found: Participants'...
- Will You Digg This Pnas Article On Digg?
Digg Probably not. And even if you did, the collective Digg audience will forget about it in 69 minutes. To study the dynamics of collective attention and its relation to novel inputs in a natural setting, we analyzed the behavioral patterns of 1 million...
- Attention And Distractibility: Placing Science Waaay In The Backseat
A feature article in today's New York Times: Promoting the Car Phone, Despite Risks By MATT RICHTEL The New York Times Published: December 7, 2009 "Industry pioneers have long been aware of the risks of multitasking behind the wheel, but still marketed...
- Drug Development: Glutamate And Schizophrenia
From Sunday's New York Times: Daring to Think Differently About Schizophrenia By ALEX BERENSON Published: February 24, 2008 "A new drug aimed at treating schizophrenia turns its focus away from dopamine and instead on the effects of glutamate, another...
- Alzheimer's Disease
An nice feature article in today's New York Times: Scientists Want to Find Alzheimer’s Before a Mind Fails By DENISE GRADY The New York Times Published: December 26, 2007 [ ... Read the full article ... ]...