Neuroscience
Between the frisson of excitement at the upcoming testimony of Andy Fastow at the Enron trial and the anxious waiting over the BlackBerry patent dispute, today's Wall Street Journal devotes its Science Journal column by Sharon Begley to an ode to the older brain:
Old Brains Don't Work That Badly After All, Especially Trained Ones
The Wall Street Journal
03 March 2006, pg. B1 (Marketplace).
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
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Neuroscience
Older Brains Can Be Spiffy, Too!
Between the frisson of excitement at the upcoming testimony of Andy Fastow at the Enron trial and the anxious waiting over the BlackBerry patent dispute, today's Wall Street Journal devotes its Science Journal column by Sharon Begley to an ode to the older brain:
Old Brains Don't Work That Badly After All, Especially Trained Ones
The Wall Street Journal
03 March 2006, pg. B1 (Marketplace).
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
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The Wall Street Journal's HealthBlog discusses this radiopharmaceutical and the FDA meeting to be held tomorrow about it [read post here]...
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From tomorrow's New York Times:The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes By HARRIET BROWN The New York Times Published: August 23, 2005 Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close - sometimes too close - relationship...
- Science Blogs
Science Librarian pal Naka Ishii receommended a cog sci blog I hadn't known about, which leads me to post this short list of science blogs new to me, and maybe to you. Naka points me to Mind Matters, a cognitive science blog by Scientific American....
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Interesting article in last month's Wall Street Journal about emotions & cognitive performance. The free abstract sums it up: "After years of studying situations such as choking under pressure or succumbing to 'stereotype threat' (in which...
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Yes, it's true! "That's Not Baby Talk It's Your Kid Testing Her Grasp of Chinese " Sharon Begley. Wall Street Journal. Aug 11, 2006. pg. A.7 Not much to post, since the WSJ isn't free online, but here's the lead paragraph: "IF A BABY...