Neuroscience
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
By BENEDICT CAREY
The New York Times
Published: May 31, 2005
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In the study, Dr. [Helen] Fisher, Dr. Lucy Brown of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and Dr. Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that analyzed about 2,500 brain images from 17 college students who were in the first weeks or months of new love. The students looked at a picture of their beloved while an M.R.I. machine scanned their brains. The researchers then compared the images with others taken while the students looked at picture of an acquaintance.
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Neuroscience
The Passionate Caudate
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
By BENEDICT CAREY
The New York Times
Published: May 31, 2005
[snip]
In the study, Dr. [Helen] Fisher, Dr. Lucy Brown of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and Dr. Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that analyzed about 2,500 brain images from 17 college students who were in the first weeks or months of new love. The students looked at a picture of their beloved while an M.R.I. machine scanned their brains. The researchers then compared the images with others taken while the students looked at picture of an acquaintance.
[snip]
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- The Insula Is Making Headlines!
From a report in The New York Times about the neuroscience of smoking: Scientists Tie Part of Brain to Urge to Smoke By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: January 25, 2007 [snip] The insula, for years a wallflower of brain anatomy, has emerged...
- Predicting Alzheimer Disease: More Wish Than Reality
A core contemporary issue in the clinical neurology and neuropsychology of aging and dementia is discussed in an article in tomorrow's New York Times: Predicting Alzheimer's Is More Wish Than Reality By LAURIE TARKAN The New York Times Published:...
- Imaging Technologies And Mental Disorders: Potential Vs. Use?
From tomorrow's New York Times:Can Brain Scans See Depression? By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: October 18, 2005 They seem almost alive: snapshots of the living human brain. Not long ago, scientists predicted that these images, produced...
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